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Through music and movement, students with disabilities learn life skills

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At Lincoln School, students with autism, multiple impairments and cognitive disorders learn through movement, music and story thanks to a partnership with Grand Rapids Ballet...

Students’ film traces history, influence of Grand Rapids’ African-American music scene

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
A student-produced film on the history of black musicians in Grand Rapids will be shown Thursday, May 10 at Celebration Cinema North, as well as on Xfinity On Demand cable TV beginning the same day...

Let’s review center-based special education programs, say superintendents

Empowering Abilities Charles Honey
A study will bring in an outside consultant to evaluate whether GRPS center-based programs are providing best practices compared with other districts in Michigan and beyond...

Students learn history, see possibilities on tour of historically black colleges

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
The tour of HBCUs in Tennessee, Alabama and Florida was a key component of a plan to revive Ottawa with a revamped program and $17 million in renovations...

Statewide reading decline: how some high-poverty schools buck the trend

All Districts Erin Albanese
Principals in Wyoming and Grand Rapids identified how to use data to improve instruction, build teacher leaders and zero in on reading instruction practices

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

GRPS superintendent continues Transformation Plan listening tour

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Superintendent Teresa Weatherall Neal will meet with parents, students, community members and school staff this week to get feedback on the GRPS Transformation Plan

‘They’re right. We are just a bunch of kids. But we’ve also been the victims… And that’s not OK’

All Districts Charles Honey
Students at City High/Middle School joined others demonstrating across America Wednesday, a month after the massacre that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida

Students reflect on play where a young Gerald Ford and black teammate tackle a racist policy

Grand Rapids Dianne Carroll Burdick
Related Black History Month stories Underground railroad module turns fourth-graders into historians Technology turns biography reports into multimedia efforts The documentary, "Black and Blue: The Story of...

She supports school with business partners, great food

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Rachel Lee encourages other neighborhood parents to check out the school, and helps in the classroom and on the playground, all while running her own restaurant, Citizen

Teachers Tell Their Stories, to Help Other Teachers

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
"What inspires you to come to school every day and teach children?" interviewer Rosie del Valle asked Gladiola Elementary intervention math coach Kristi Baumbach. Baumbach,...

Local students push for change in wake of Florida school shooting

Multi Districts Charles Honey
Students at City High/Middle School are joining the ranks of a national student-led movement to make their schools safer, stepping up where adults have failed to act

‘We’re Living His Dream’

Godfrey-Lee Jaye Beeler
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the...

Stop, Look and Here’s Some Love

Grand Rapids Tom Rademacher
When Kattie Eason first stepped onto a Wealthy Street SE corner to serve as a school crossing guard at Henry Elementary School – now Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Academy -- she was 21 years old.

Finding the Right Fit

Caledonia Janice Holst
How do you turn a would-be class clown into a productive student? How do you motivate a fifth-grader who just doesn't fit in or...

Giving Voice to Children

Grand Rapids Linda Odette
Most elementary students have never attended an opera. Coit Creative Arts Academy fourth- and fifth-grade students have created, produced and performed one. The project, done...
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