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Information Technology Systems Increase Schools Effectiveness

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

Handwritten forms, spelling errors, manual entry, permission for access, even lost information. These are some of the issues that plagued old special education record-keeping...

Students Prove Skills at State and National Competitions

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

Kent Career Tech Center students proved they're ahead of the curve by placing high in a variety of educational and skill based competitions during...

Public Education Advocate Stresses Need for Schools to Support Each Other

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

Improving the perception of public education requires being a champion for all schools, said national advocate John Draper. "If you are sitting in a teacher's...

“Please Sir, I Want Some More”

How's School Today? Ron Koehler

From our readers: “(SNN provides) First-hand accounts of how districts & staff are serving students and how student experiences are helping them grow and mature...

Teachers Challenged to Question Assumptions about Students in Poverty

Kent ISD Charles Honey

When Paul C. Gorski wants to illustrate stereotypes about poor people, he looks no further than his own grandmother. Though she grew up poor in...

Maranda Visits Kent Area Grads With Grit

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

This spring, School News Network focused on a number of students who graduated despite unusually difficult circumstances and hardships. School News Netwrok has partnered...

Immersion in Watershed Helps Teachers Create Student Projects

Kent ISD School News Network

Susan Gray peers into a microscope that reveals the miniscule habitat of algae and phytoplankton culled from the depths of Muskegon Lake. Gray, a 5th...

India Stewart Dunning: Survivor and Scholar

Forest Hills Tom Rademacher

Her clothes are arranged by color.Like Pippi Longstocking, she sleeps upside down, with her head at the footboard and her feet at the headboard. Ever...

Playtime for Children becomes Learning for Students

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

Rubber mats, bouncy balls and sing along songs are part of the experience for students enrolled in the new Childcare program at Kent Transitional...

Districts Continue to Make Cuts, Tap Savings to Cover Budget Holes

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

After a decade of teacher and staff concessions, slashed programs, layoffs, shuttered schools and consolidated services, Kent County school districts continue to struggle to...

Young Inventors Learn to Create through Fun and Exploration

Kent ISD School News Network

Camp Invention, a nationally recognized summer enrichment camp for kids, launched its second year at Kent ISD on June 16 with an intriguing question:...

Students Collaborate to Bring Historic Fort to Life

Kent ISD School News Network

The blockbuster video games that line the shelves of East Beltine’s GameStop were put on the backburner for a spring afternoon as 3D Animation...

Hybrid School Celebrates the First Group of Grads

Kent ISD School News Network

A unique group of graduates gathered on Kent ISD's campus a few weeks ago. Parents and faculty were there with a warm send-off to...

Good Math Skills a Must for Good Jobs, Employers Say

Kent ISD Charles Honey

Editor's note: Making Math Add Up is a series on the difficulties students have learning math, and what methods some schools and teachers are...

Tech Center Students Awarded Breaking Traditions Recognition

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

Rockford High School student Sydney Bogard, who recently graduated from the Tech Center's Criminal Justice program, was one of 22 Michigan students recently honored...

Stomp Out Stigma Walk Sees Record Attendance

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

It may have been chilly, but 1,500 students, community, and organization members started at GVSU's Pew campus for a brisk 5k Saturday morning walk...

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