HomeKent ISD

Kent ISD

New Vaccine Waiver Rule Irks Some Parents, Reassures Others

Issues in Education Charles Honey

Sarah Hernandez spent two years in Haiti as a volunteer for Nurse Without Borders, vaccinating children against polio, measles, whooping cough and other diseases....

New Tech Center Leader Once Raced NASCAR Drivers (in Go-karts, but Still)

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema

Name: Cameron Buck School: Kent Career Tech Center What and where was your previous job? Curriculum Associate and Instructional Technology Specialist at Careerline Tech Center/Ottawa Area...

Shorter Summer? Shorter Christmas Break? Tweaks Being Considered

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

In recent years, Michigan school children have enjoyed a three-month summer break, by law not returning to the classroom before Labor Day. But as...

Providing Equity in Education Can Mean Everything to a Child

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

In science, a paradigm shift occurs when there is a change in underlying assumptions, when conventional wisdom comes into question as a result of...

Equity Leads to Excellence in Schools, Requires Courage and Tenacity

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

A child's background remains the biggest predictor of his or her success in the classroom, said professor and author Pedro Noguera. But that doesn't...

Former Grandville Superintendent Takes Kent ISD Reins

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

When Kelly Souten was preparing to teach Advanced Placement calculus, Grandville Public Schools Superintendent Ron Caniff directed the class' retiring teacher to work with...

Three Best Things About Teaching

How's School Today? Ron Koehler

August 18, 7:43 a.m: My shirt sticks to my back and I, like many others, hope for some rain to break the string of...

Tech Center Students Excel at National Competition

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema

Five Kent Career Technical Center students placed in the top 10 of their competition areas at the National Leadership and Skills Conference of SkillsUSA...

SNN Series Shows Team Approach Can Help Students Overcome Poverty

Kent ISD Charles Honey

I knew there was poverty up there in northern Kent County, but I didn’t know it felt this cold. Flossie Bliss sat in a plastic...

Who needs an early warning system? Just count students.

How's School Today? Ron Koehler

I have one word for those seeking insight from the new “early warning” system legislation signed into law by Gov. Snyder shortly after the...

Konarska Twins Leave Double Legacy

Kent ISD Tom Rademacher

You could spend a lot of time perusing the resumes of identical twin brothers Kevin and Keith Konarska, who retire at the end of...

Inaugural Festival Changes Lives by Just Adding (Clean) Water

Kent ISD School News Network

Parents took their children to a free-flowing give and take at the inaugural River City Water Festival that demonstrated to them why they cannot...

SNN Receives Grant to Promote Student Journalism, Workshops

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

The school news website created two years ago to serve staff, families and students could include writing from the students themselves about what goes...

‘I Knew I Had to be True to Myself’

Kent ISD School News Network

It was a drama-free coming-out when the student's request to have his school email address changed from Chelsea Williams to Callum Williams was granted. "It...

Planting Thanks, Growing Hope

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema

About a dozen children from around Greater Grand Rapids gathered at the Kent ISD Educational Services Center building to plant annuals in commemoration of...

Dear Governor & Legislature: Thank You

How's School Today? Ron Koehler

Superintendents: they heard you. Teachers: they heard you. Parents: they heard you, too. Gov. Snyder and Grand Rapids executive John Kennedy last week joined legislators, members of...

1...272829...37 Page 28 of 37

- Sponsorship -

GET OUR HEADLINES IN YOUR EMAIL

SUSTAINING SPONSORS

Join these sponsors

- Sponsorship -

MEDIA PARTNERS

School News NetworkA Window into Your Public Schools

ABOUT US

School News Network reports on the 20 public school districts in Kent ISD, which enroll more than 102,000 students. Founded in 2013 as an initiative of Kent ISD, we are supported by local districts and community sponsors, and powered by an experienced team of reporters, editors and multimedia journalists. We specialize in covering classroom teaching and learning, analyzing the many issues facing students and highlighting the education magic that happens each day in our public schools.

Kent County Cup winner finds new career focus through esports

Student broadcaster pushes for positive coverage in advisory role

Retired teachers return as mentors

Friend, athlete, advocate uses abilities to help others

Marshmallows & math make for a sweet multiplication lesson

Senior makes artistic mark on snowplow

Initiative aims to double enrollment in career & technical education by 2030

Fourth-grade Choristers come together in song

High-schoolers share thoughts on school safety, engagement & more

Student broadcaster pushes for positive coverage in advisory role

On podcast, teen shares about major loss, forgiveness & gratitude

Poet pens work celebrating school library’s achievement

Kent ISD

GET OUR HEADLINES IN YOUR EMAIL

SUSTAINING SPONSORS

MEDIA PARTNERS

ABOUT US

FOLLOW US

OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS