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Students work toward a more sustainable tomorrow

Grandville Hannah Lentz
The high school ‘Green Team’ has stepped up its earth-friendly efforts, led by a teacher who built a new recycling center in the cafeteria...

Building a groundswell of support for fresh water

Forest Hills Hannah Lentz
They started the year as penpals. Now they have met and are working together to explore local water systems...

All hands on deck, for credit and the community

Grandville Hannah Lentz
75 Grandville Middle School students in Bruce Marvel’s eighth-grade STEM class are putting their technical skills to use on storage sheds and model cars...

Bulldogs at West Point: a community tradition and point of pride

Grandville Hannah Lentz
Though far from West Michigan, the United States Military Academy at West Point has a little bit of home among its ranks. Grandville Public Schools currently has five cadets enrolled in the academy...

Taking the stage: teaching duo shares passion for theater arts

Grandville Hannah Lentz
Both avid fans of the theater arts, married teachers Amanda and Jay Fischer spend their summer break heavily involved with the Shadblow Theatre in Jenison...

Students explore many ways of worship

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
The four-day Interfaith Service Day Camp brought together 21 West Michigan students representing several religious and non-religious backgrounds to explore religions, get to know one another, enjoy food and culture, and volunteer...

A Bulldog’s legacy

Grandville Hannah Lentz
High School art students remember beloved principal Chris VanderSlice by creating a mural in his honor, depicting his passions and attitude...

Students help refugee peers adjust to life, schools in the U.S.

Multi Districts Morgan Jarema
Students from a handful of area high schools are making an impact at two West Michigan organizations tasked with helping refugee students and their families succeed...

For Gerald R. Ford student essay winners, courage begins at home

Multi Districts Hannah Lentz
More than 900 students submitted writings on the theme of courage for the annual Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation annual essay challenge...

#LetMeSpeak: Students do just that, and their classmates listen

Grandville Hannah Lentz
Sophomores at Grandville High School join national conversation through personal narrative...

Making a kinder girl world: ‘It’s good to be a girl’

Grandville Hannah Lentz
The FearlesslyGirl program finished up its inaugural year at Grandville Middle School with 12 members

Students Leave a Legacy to Last, in Clay

Grandville Jaye Beeler
By making hundreds of clay tiles utilizing form, line, shape and texture, high school students unleashed their creativity in creating a hallway mural

‘My Class is More Than What I Teach Them’

Grandville Jaye Beeler
At 7:45 a.m. daily, teacher Terry Blevins begins the day with his 30 audiovisual broadcasting students tooling about a warren of separate rooms stuffed...

Poppa Belly Floppa Gives ‘That Special Love’

Grandville Jaye Beeler
At Central Elementary School, the spontaneity on the playground pings around grandparent Ernie Sandona, who’s at the center of the dance. His grandson, third-grader...

‘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...

Quoth the Rooster, ‘Some More’

Grandville Jaye Beeler
Four student collaborators in Sandra Bajema's language arts class performed an outlandish Edgar Allan Poe parody by vilifying a rooster: Students Chris Veldhuis and Aiden...
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