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For Gerald R. Ford student essay winners, courage begins at home

Multi Districts Hannah Lentz

More than 900 students submitted writings on the theme of courage for the annual Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation annual essay challenge...

Coming from struggle, Somali student wants to ‘change someone’s life’

Grads with Grit Morgan Jarema

A Forest Hills Northern High School graduate born in war-torn Somalia plans to leverage the opportunities he has been given in this country to help children and families adjust to the U.S. and its culture...

Compassion in verse, art and service

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

The poetry activity was part of a larger collaboration to help students explore the concept of empathy

Student lawmakers for a day debate real bills, including uniforms, fuel tax and speed boats

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Government day is an experience-based approach to learning about basic government skills, specifically how a bill becomes a law. The entire day is completed through role play

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Students’ fairy tale figures live wax-ily ever after

Forest Hills Linda Odette

More than 100 Knapp Forest Elementary second-graders became “frozen” wax characters who occupied displays in the school’s classrooms and hallways to recite stories they had written

Students march for their lives: ‘If others aren’t going to do it, I think we should’

All Districts Erin Albanese

Six teenage organizers from Forest Hills and Grand Rapids led a crowd of thousands in the March for Our Lives at Rosa Parks Circle

Personal finance class looks closely at personal values

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Business teacher Brian Johnson’s students are taking an in-depth look at money this semester. As part of that, they are examining how they view money so far

Students take action, lend voices to honor Florida school victims and plead for violence to end

Multi Districts School News Network

The number 17 served as a marker not only for moments of silence in honor of those killed, but for students’ thoughts on how to make schools safer and kinder

Statewide aquatic robotics competition tests students’ engineering skills

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

A competition Saturday on the east side of the state will give Forest Hills students a chance to show off their marine robotics skills

Teachers help teachers take it to the next level at Van Andel Education Institute

All Districts Erin Albanese

Mastermind is a group of West Michigan teachers, principals, social workers and other educators who have met monthly at Van Andel Education Institute this school year, working together to overcome challenges common to many of them

Restorative practices shifts to academics

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

More and more schools are using restorative practices as a proactive way to handle behavior. At Ada Elementary, teachers have started to use them when teaching content

Magical Creatures Via Design Thinking

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

As his classmates glued, cut, pasted and painted around him, Ada Vista Elementary fourth-grader Marcus Benard quietly alternated different colors of permanent markers to...

A Shadower’s-eye View of Job Shadow Day

Forest Hills Student Showcase School News Network

One cannot simply learn from a classroom or a computer the insights and experiences that reside in a workforce, beyond the education bubble and...

Trending Now: Student News Site Thrives

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

The two classrooms-turned-newsroom of the student news website, The Central Trend, are a steady buzz of activity on a winter afternoon just before the...

Portraying History Through Art

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Freshman Daniel Zawodny can tell you about a courtyard confrontation between artistic rivals Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. And while freshman Brock Sweezie admits he’s...

Re-Imagining School

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

In this 21-minute podcast, Supt. Dan Behm talks about how Steelcase's Applied Research + Consulting team worked with Forest Hills to rethink curiosity, collaboration and communication.

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