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Students on #metoo Movement: ‘It Kind of Scares Me’

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey

Freshman Ava Deschaine plays basketball and runs cross country and track for her high school. So she felt sad for the more than 150...

Almost a Teacher, Now She Helps Them All

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey

Danielle Storey leads a line of bundled-up kindergartners through the halls of Central Elementary School, to an exit where parents wait by their cars...

‘Such Good and Such Promise in Each of Them’

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey

Fourteen students form a semicircle, discussing in detail the meaning of a poem by Pablo Neruda, "I Like When You Are Quiet." Witness the teaching...

Interviewing 101 Helps Students Hone Skills

Career Exploration Charles Honey

Had it been a real job interview, Katlyn Siddall might well have been hired. In a practice interview in the high school library, Katlyn told...

Mindful Students Find Calm at End of School Day

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey

Twenty-eight students lie on the floor of a darkened classroom, cloth masks over their eyes, silently listening to the soothing murmur of ocean waves...

Students Hope to Save Lives with Honored Video

Multi Districts Charles Honey

Brooke Buchanan and Molly Growney admit they sort of assumed their teacher was giving them busy work when he assigned them a project at...

‘When Trouble Came to Find Me, She Was There’

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

Lexis Pearson was a self-described troublemaker when she was in seventh grade. Her poor choices led her to the office of social worker Brooke...

Turn, Talk and Listen

The Road to Reading Charles Honey

Kindergartner Vincent Reatini looked up from his book, “Froggy Builds a Tree House,” which he couldn’t read much of yet. But asked for his...

Sports Nut, Zamboni Driver, Dedicated Educator

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey

School: Central Elementary Other positions you have held in education: I spent the past 11 years as an English teacher at Kenowa Hills High School....

Renovated Building ‘Feels Like a Brand-New School’

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey

Just after taking their seats in the newly renovated Alpine Elementary School, LeAnn’s Smoes’ fourth-graders piped up when she asked what they liked about...

Administrator Elected to Lead Statewide Educators Group

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey

Assistant Superintendent Mike Burde has been named president-elect of the Michigan Association of State and Federal Program Specialists, an organization to help local school...

From Schoolhouse to the White House

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey

When Tracy Horodyski looks back on her year as Michigan Teacher of the Year, the recollections come tumbling out: the dozens of presentations she...

Six Teachers Seek National Board Credentials

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

Big names in teaching in Kent County – Michigan Teachers of the Year for 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 – have joined forces to share the...

Taking a Stand – Make That a Walk – Against Slavery

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey

The more students in Jim Kendra’s social-studies classes learned about modern-day slavery, the more they wanted to do something about it. Out of their concern...

STEM on Steroids: Students Design Electric Vehicles

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey

High school students put their STEM skills to work by designing a car for the future at the 11th annual Square One Innovative Vehicle...

School Spirit Personified: ‘He Never Has a Bad Day’

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey

Jared Scheidel ambles onto the ballfield and members of the Knights varsity baseball team greet him as they get ready for practice. “What’s up, coach...

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