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Business as usual

School 2.0 Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

While traditional brick-and-mortar schools had to close due to the statewide stay-at-home order, online learning continued for these students and staff...

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Amid the virus gloom, schools shine rays of goodness

School 2.0 Brett Atwood

For every storm cloud there’s a rainbow on the horizon, and in the midst of coronavirus, there are plenty of bright spots to illuminate -- especially in the world of education...

Getting down to business

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Through the inaugural Student StartUp Day, area high school students met with local professionals and learned what it takes to make an idea for a business a reality...

A year of adventure cut short

School 2.0 Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

For many exchange students, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant going home early, missing key high school moments...

Stepping up to donate in a time of need

School 2.0 Erin Albanese

Tech Center, GRCC are among schools making large donations of equipment to help local health care professionals fight COVID-19...

Reaching students, helping families

School 2.0 Erin Albanese

Many students with disabilities need full-time care and receive speech, physical and occupation therapy through school. That typically requires physical interaction...

Making toys inclusive

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

A senior capstone project on how to adapt a toy for a child with limited mobility gives a group of students job skills in problem solving and life lessons in empathy...

What does the 2020 Census have to do with school lunch?

Multi Districts Phil de Haan

With some funding dependent on census data, school districts help spread the word on this key count of residents...

Sylvia James fills opening on Kent ISD School Board

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Kent ISD’s School Board appointed Sylvia James to its five-member board after long-time member Bill Joseph retires...

Legislators, superintendents, students talk top issues in Michigan Schools

Issues in Education Erin Albanese

One lawmaker said it’s important for them to understand 'what it means on the ground and in real life for our educators'...

Program receives funding for three parent educators to serve areas of need

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

Bright Beginnings, a program which serves children from birth to kindergarten with home visits, playgroups and free screenings, is the recipient of $273,068 in millage funds to bring more services to families...

Thanks to local firm, students learn to virtually design car parts

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

A three-day program offered by AutoForm exposed a dozen engineering students in the second year of the Tech Center’s Engineering and Architecture Program to industry-level design...

Certified and ready to work

Kent ISD Brett Atwood

Adult education students are preparing for in-demand jobs while working toward their GEDs. Kent Career Tech Center’s hands-on courses for adults include phlebotomy, welding construction and IT...

Student leaders recognized with scholarships

Multi Districts James Harger

Three area high school students were awarded the $500 Helen Claytor Achievement Scholarship last month at the YWCA’s 2019 Tribute Awards ceremony...

Michigan’s New ‘Read by Grade 3’ Law: A Guide for Parents

All Districts Sunil Joy, research data analyst for Kent ISD

Parents helping their younger children transition into the regular routine of daily school attendance will find a new focus on reading as their schools and their teachers prepare students for Michigan’s new law requiring demonstrated reading competency to move from the third to fourth grade...

‘My students will change the world’

Cedar Springs Cris Greer

Cedar View’s Madeline Pekrul is teaching her fifth graders about career readiness this year in a pilot program...

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