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‘Reading with a Purpose’ Helps Students Learn

The Road to Reading Charles Honey

Rebecca Ophoff’s 25 fourth-graders are following along an article at their desks as she asks them what kind of writing it is. “What makes it...

A Promise Made, a Promise Kept

Grand Rapids Tom Rademacher

For more than 150 years, they've been turning out heroic figures at the former Grand Rapids Central High School – now Innovation Central High. But...

Two New Leaders for City Schools

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Snowboarder, Mushroom Harvester, Stevie Wonder Fan Meet Your Principal: Ryan Huppert School: City High/Middle and the Center for Economicology Other positions you have held in education: Sparta...

Superintendents Support Students In the Face of DACA Decision

Godfrey-Lee Charles Honey

As a mother and grandmother, Teresa Weatherall Neal knows well the value of family. And as superintendent of nearly 17,000 Grand Rapids Public Schools...

National Spotlight Shines on Museum School

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Museum School has made a big splash in West Michigan since its beginning three years ago along the banks of the Grand River. Tonight...

Teachers Train Together to Help Close the Gap

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

A fence illustration is often used to show the difference between equality and equity. Two pictures each show three children, one tall, one short and...

Warmth from the Mitten Funds Uniforms for Students

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Harrison Park students who needed new uniforms came to school this week and found they’d already been provided. The Mitten Foundation donated $3,000 to purchase...

A New Day for the Montessori Way

Grand Rapids Jaye Beeler

One. Two. Three. The snip of many scissors launched Ridgemoor Park Montessori into the open arms of a community of believers. The ceremonial ribbon-cutting at...

The Last Class Comes Back Home

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Walking through a first-floor, artfully decorated condominium, Steven Mazurek pointed toward the floor and said, “I sat right here. It was seventh grade. This...

Teachers Stock Up on Class Supplies, with Help

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Wyoming's Parkview Elementary School teachers demonstrated their love for new school supplies at the Teacher Resource Store, where they left with cartloads of notebooks,...

Students Produce PSA to Help Grow Green GR

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss wants to increase the city’s tree canopy, and Grand Rapids Public Schools students are helping her do it using...

Planting Their Little Patch of Green

Grand Rapids Dianne Carroll Burdick

The grounds around Mulick Park Elementary School have serious erosion issues, to the point of their storm drains being clogged with sediment. That problem...

‘It motivates me to do better in school’

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Francisco McKnight just finished his freshman year at Union High School, but he’s already thinking ahead to college. That’s due in large part to...

An Arts School Takes the Stage

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Baton in hand, Jaeda Selden led fellow second-graders Kamellah Kidd and Lizzariah Robertson in practicing a song from “The Wiz.” Taking a break for...

Free Books for Students ‘Means the World to Them’

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

When she and her classmates recently gave more than 2,700 books to Gerald R. Ford Academic Center, Chianne TerHaar was happy to know she’d...

Neal: ‘Stay with Me, Stay with These Children’

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Teresa Weatherall Neal was happy to highlight a raft of community supporters at her State of Our Schools address, from the Steelcase Foundation to...

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