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A Chance to Have Their Say – Finally

Byron Center Charles Honey

Editor's note: For 18-year-old high school students, Tuesday's election was their first chance to cast a ballot for president. School News Network asked several...

From Classroom to Newsroom

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

It's a little after the start of first period at Central High School, and students in Jeff Manders' class are preparing to scatter throughout...

Realizing Your Limits

Forest Hills Student Showcase School News Network

Signing up for classes to take the following year, the year you haven't even begun to think about, is exceptionally challenging when faced with...

Retired Forest Hills Superintendent Washburn Recognized by School Board Association

Forest Hills School News Network

Retired Forest Hills Superintendent Dr. J. Michael Washburn, long-time mentor and education advisor, received the Educational Advocacy Award from the Kent Intermediate Association of...

Limit Children’s Screen Time, Experts Tell Parents

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Dave Korte says he and his wife, Angela, try to be very deliberate about the rules they have regarding screen time for their children,...

Art Exhibit Celebrates Historic, Integrated Neighborhood

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Ruby Jazwinski said she enjoyed talking with ArtPrize-goers about the paintings and digital images she and a group of district middle schoolers created about...

Learning From the Natural World

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

If he's ever lost in the woods with some pancakes, Mason Childers is confident he would be able to find sumac with which to...

Bilingual, Musical, Athletic & Inspired by Many

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

School: Pine Ridge Elementary What and where was your previous job? Adjunct professor for Davenport University’s College of Urban Education Degrees: Bachelor’s in Spanish, master’s in educational leadership Other...

Educator Says Ship-board Experience One of the Best of her Life

Forest Hills Linda Odette

Kari Fuller said she was geeked to spend a week this summer on the U.S. Lake Guardian research vessel, where she was part of...

Past Top Teachers Advise, Encourage This Year’s Honoree

Forest Hills Charles Honey

Surrounded by a dozen exemplary teachers in the room, Michigan Teacher of the Year Tracy Horodyski paid close attention to the advice of one...

Summer Programs Push Participants to Think, Work Like Scientists

East Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Six students sat hunched on the floor, writing on a poster bearing photos of penguins they’d taken the previous day at John Ball Zoo....

Play Makes Great Way to Practice New Language

Forest Hills Linda Odette

After a year of chatting via an instant messaging app with their friend Louie Li in Shanghai, China, two students in the district's Mandarin...

Honing the Ruchir Technique

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Ruchir Gupta became enamored at a young age of tinkering with all things mechanical: elementary school Science Olympiad, building bottle rockets and a mousetrap-powered...

Parking Lot Painted with ‘Positivity & Joy’

Comstock Park Charles Honey

On a gray-grit city parking lot through some of this summer’s hottest days, a dozen students painted a bright path of hope. Their zig-zag creation...

Paddling, Early Settler Style

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

It's almost certain that neither the Native Americans nor the early settlers sat on the banks of the Grand River some 200 years ago...

New Group Gives More Parents a Voice

Forest Hills Charles Honey

As a mother with three children in public schools, Barbara McFall wants to support her children’s educational experience. But sometimes she senses a wall...

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Teacher recognized for ‘excellence in Chinese teaching’

She’s in year 20, and ‘goes at it like year two’

For real, she dances a fine reel

Dedication & drive, in the dojo and beyond

Business, college and K-12 leaders come together to boost student literacy

Middle-school artists add ‘squish’ to second-grade designs

One Book, One City program culminates with visit from author

Pi Day slices fun with math

Level playing field offers connection for students of all abilities

High school broadcasters inspire middle school channel

What would closing U.S. Dept. of Education mean for special education in Kent County?

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