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Learning under the trees

Forest Hills Phil de Haan

Local teachers who are mentoring the next generation of environmental stewards are benefiting from Groundswell's monthly programming...

Hooked on history and gifted in writing, senior publishes paper on PBB crisis

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Eastern High School senior Claire Parish’s National History Day article on the 1970s PBB crisis is in the current issue of Michigan History magazine...

Governor Whitmer makes Michigan the first state ever to ban the sales of flavored e-cigarettes

Forest Hills Student Showcase School News Network

A student editorial on the recent action aimed at trying to curb teen vaping...

Protect our waters from straws, pesticides and other pollutants, students say

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

The videos were initiated last year as a project with Groundswell, with whom the school has partnered for water quality education for the past four years...

How’s school? No really, your voice matters

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Students at Eastern Middle School participated in one of four workshops in April as part of the national Student Voice Organization’s school tour...

Chaffee scholarship winner aims to leave a legacy, in the lab or in the air

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Forest Hills Central senior Noah Stout, who will enter the U.S. Air Force Academy in the fall, recently was named recipient of this year’s $3,000 annual award from the Roger B. Chaffee Scholarship Fund...

Students teach students in history-making collaboration

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Northern Hills Middle eighth-graders made videos on chosen aspects of the American Revolution. Elementary teachers will be able to show them to their students as part of their introduction to the unit...

Inadequate funding – even in affluent districts – still short-changes students

Issues in Education Charles Honey

It’s not just poorer districts feeling the pain from Michigan’s inadequate school funding, officials say. Higher-income districts are also pinched by the funding formula and having to make cuts...

Increased costs, slow funding increases create tight budget

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

While Forest Hills is considered one of the most affluent school districts in West Michigan, it still feels the budget pinch of a lower per-pupil allowance than the district received a decade ago...

Lightbulb lunches garner student voice

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Every month, teachers recommend a different group of students from each grade for lunch with the principal. Students offer suggestions and ideas about their school...

Nick Minnema – special and driven, for all the right reasons

Reading & Writing with Rademacher Tom Rademacher

The Forest Hills Transition Center student and athlete competed this month at the Special Olympics World Games half a world away – in the United Arab Emirates’ capital city of Abu Dhabi, as well as the UAE’s largest city, Dubai...

Their writing is tops with readers, judges

Caledonia Morgan Jarema

A pair of students from two West Michigan public schools took high honors in the seventh annual Write Michigan short story contest, hosted by Kent District Library and Schuler Books & Music...

Why did the pencil cross the road? Wait for it …

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

The pint-sized comedians got tips from comedian Allen Trieu, then tried out their own funny bone-tickling skills on one another...

Urban & suburban students find common interests in 15-year partnership

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

The recent meet-and-greet was the 15th annual gathering of students from the two elementary schools...

Providing ‘safe spaces’ for students of every kind to learn

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Collins Elementary Principal Mitchell Balingit has been named the district’s first director of student success and equity...

Homemade toys sale benefits endangered animals

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

As an added, cross-curricular twist, each toy was given a materials budget of 10 virtual dollars, and art supplies and equipment could be purchased or rented...

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