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School starts with high hopes, imaginative art and a new building

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
Kent County students return to classes this week...

Grant to give library a much needed boost

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Godfrey Elementary was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Laura Bush Foundation to stock the library with new non-fiction books...

Read a book, earn a badge – or all 46

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Godfrey Elementary teacher Scott Kelly developed a reading challenge that is proving very popular. Other teachers can get in on it, too...

Grand Valley grad, Detroit native new Affinity Mentoring executive director

Multi Districts Phil de Haan
A local nonprofit that provides one-on-one mentoring relationships for Godfrey-Lee and Grand Rapids public schools has a new executive director...

His dream: explore the world through taste

Your Dream is Our Dream Morgan Jarema
Hoping to one day own his own restaurant, Manny says his teachers helped get him where he is...

After building failure, renovated school will be ‘worth the wait’

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Godfrey-Lee Public Schools officially breaks ground on their $17.9 million construction and renovation project at Lee Middle and High School...
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‘Let’s get together and play some music’

State of the Arts Alexis Stark
Lee and East Grand Rapids high schools performed a community concert as a dedication to Ukrainian refugees...

Imagining future careers, inspired to keep learning

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
In honor of Reading Month, Godfrey Elementary invited community members to read books to students and share information about their careers...

We can be great friends, even with differences 

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Godfrey Elementary fourth-graders learn about inclusion, acceptance and showing kindness...

Creating little legends by letting littles create

Project STEM Alexis Stark
The area, funded in part by a grant from the district’s education foundation, is aimed at building motor skills, inspiring exploration...

New district chief wants to be ‘CEO of hope’

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
New Superintendent Michael Burde strives to form strong relationships and be a ‘CEO of hope’ for the Godfrey-Lee community...

From five-minute sketches to frightful creatures

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Godfrey-Lee art teacher Rosanne Steffens’ third-graders drew five-minute monster sketches; her high school Advanced Drawing students then reimagined them into terrifying monsters...

Puppets help ‘The Little Prince’ safely take the stage

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Coming in the spring, The Wiz...

Godfrey-Lee board names new superintendent

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
The search for the new Godfrey-Lee superintendent is over...

Two finalists named in superintendent search

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Following the interviews of three potential candidates for superintendent, the Godfrey-Lee Public Schools Board of Education invited two finalists for interviews on Wednesday, Nov. 17...

Listening, believing in students

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Johana Rodriguez-Quist is the new Godfrey Elementary School principal...
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