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How Does Imagination Boost Vocabulary?

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Godfrey Elementary School English language-learner teacher Jackie Wearing's students were learning vocabulary during the Swoop reading intervention program. Their challenge: to end this sentence:...

1,800 Bikes Find Their Home for the Holidays

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Santa Claus delivered for children in the Godfrey-Lee Public Schools district area in the days before Christmas, with six semi-trailers filled with 1,800 free...

Living Life Like a Pumpkin

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Art and science converged in Susan Sheets Odo's second-grade classroom, where students recently depicted the lifestyle of a pumpkin through papier–mâché projects, miniature pumpkin...

Early Childhood Students Stride Past Training Wheels

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Godfrey-Lee Elementary School Early Childhood Education students lifted their feet and rode on their new pedal-free Strider bikes. "I like it! Watch what I can...

Crafting a Cardboard Arcade

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Godfrey-Lee Public Schools students were challenged to think outside the box -- and inside, under, over and through it. Turns out, with a little thinking...

Dad, Soccer Coach, Liaison Spreads Contagious, Can-do Attitude

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Three-hundred coats hung in the Godfrey-Lee Early Childhood Center ready for distribution. Jaime Ramirez stood next to the racks, helping parents and children find...

Little Ones Join High School Musical

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Godfrey-Lee Early Childhood Center students were pitch perfect. Led by music teacher Tami Nelson, they walked the half-mile from their school to Lee Middle-High...

School Welcomes Families to Celebrate After-School Programs

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

The lights were on at the Godfrey-Lee Early Childhood Center and Spiderman and Batman were in the building. The district's after-school program, TEAM 21, recently...

Grant to Fund Monthly Food Truck for School Communities

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

When Godfrey-Lee Public Schools teachers chipped in to pay for two Feeding America Mobile Food Pantry trucks to help feed the community last school...

Students School Teachers in Technology to Let Them Know What They Like

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Lee High School senior Valeria Marin knows how to reach her classmates: snap a photo on the popular social media network Snapchat. Texts work too,...

A full iPod, Golf and Basketball are Among His Favorite Things (Besides Kids)

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Name: Andrew Steketee School: Godfrey Elementary School What will be your first priorities as principal be? Before I was hired, the staff had made tremendous strides in...

Project Re-Imagine: District Embarks on Transforming Education

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

School is still too much about content memorization and regurgitation; students are taught to think like computers, spitting out answers for standardized tests; and...

Capstone Courses Open Doors from Paleontology to Embalming

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

When you talk to high school students about their career goals, embalming isn't usually mentioned. But Maria Garcia, who graduated in May from Lee High...

A Fish Tale: Students Set Chinook Salmon Free into Local Creek

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Lee Middle School teacher Vlad Borza stretched his arms wide to show Godfrey Elementary School students how large salmon released into Wyoming's Plaster Creek...

Lee High School: A Tale of the Need for Equity

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Lee High School freshman Paul Villarreal wrote down his vocabulary words: "zest," "campaigner," "poliomyelitis" and "delegate" while in the Scholastic READ 180 classroom. The...

Thanks to Gift for Retired Educator, Newcomer Students Tour Museum

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

For Tuppin Hauschild, a Grand Rapids Public Museum field trip was a way to introduce Lee Middle and High School immigrant students to the...

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