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Building their English in hopes of helping others

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

A new Kent ISD Adult Education program helps fill a need for interpreters while providing a career path for students...

Show them the scholarships!

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Ten Tech Center students earn more than $276,000 in college scholarships...

Your district’s summer programs at-a-glance

Kent ISD School News Network

Area public school districts are gearing up to provide K-12 programs this summer to address learning loss impacted by the coronavirus pandemic...

It’s a clean sweep

Empowering Abilities Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

An opportunity to work on life skills leads to a group of Kent ISD Community Transition Center students helping one local restaurant during the pandemic...

Expressing their gratitude

Empowering Abilities Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

KTC students have joined forces to help send a message of appreciation to local veterans...

Three-dimensional thinker

Meet the Future Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

She’s designing her life, from the roof trusses to her dream home to how she will impact others...

State grants to help students explore education careers

Multi Districts Phil de Haan

A staffing shortage comes at a time when districts not only need more educators in general to replace an aging workforce, but also more diverse educators...

Tech Center’s Hospitality & Culinary Program, instructors honored

Kent ISD Beth Heinen Bell

The Kent Career Technical Center’s culinary arts program and two of its teachers have received awards from the Grand Rapids chapter of the American Culinary Federation...

‘I want to do that’

Grads with Grit Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

The encouragement of co-workers helped her discover Kent ISD adult education and its career and technical ed programs...

Ron Koehler named Kent ISD superintendent

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Update: No longer an ‘interim’...

Taking Open House to families over Zoom

Kent ISD Dianne Carroll Burdick

How do you replace an annual spring event that draws thousands? That was the challenge creatively answered by staff and students at the high school programs of Kent ISD...

Kent ISD superintendent search suspended, interim to stay on for now

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

With a low number of applications and a concern for rebuilding connectedness among staff, the Kent ISD board has suspended its superintendent search...

New equity fellowship open to more Kent County teachers

All Districts Erin Albanese

Area educators have a new opportunity to become Equity Fellows, trained in creating more equitable schools and classrooms...

Twenty regional winners competed for the chance to represent West Michigan at the National Spelling Bee. This was the first time some students competed in an in-person event since the pandemic began...

Kent ISD hosts virtual high school open houses Thursday

Kent ISD School News Network

Students will have the opportunity to explore three specialty high school programs virtually during online open house events from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 25...

‘Her passion is contagious’

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Danielle Hendry, recently named the new Kent ISD human resource director, always considered Kent ISD the place to be...

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Her career path was laid in first grade

She helps students develop language, read, write & grow

Not just a volunteer, but ‘a piece of the library’

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Partnership pairs high-schoolers with scientists for real-world research

Simulated crime ties science, critical thinking & data analysis

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Learning life skills ‘where life happens’

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