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Students speak out on protests, call for ‘a better America tomorrow’

Multi Districts School News Network

For area students, the ongoing protests over police brutality could be a teachable moment, a call to action or both...

District honored for Capturing Kids Hearts

Kentwood Erin Albanese

The district has used the model for 14 years to build relationships, improve climate and culture and boost attendance and academics...

Teachers tap into one another’s knowledge for remote teaching

School 2.0 Erin Albanese

Educational technologist Brooke Storms created this list of remote learning resources, complete with free tutorials and getting-started guides...

Creating art anywhere

State of the Arts Erin Albanese

A new reality of art lessons during the pandemic is the resource savviness required to make it work, technologically and material-wise...

‘Following a map and the sky’

Grads with Grit Erin Albanese

Adjy Jean spent years as an unaccompanied youth, displaced and moving from country to country. Now, after three years settled in Michigan, he will graduate from East Kentwood High School...

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...

‘No prerequisites for being taught to read and write’

Kentwood Erin Albanese

The Literacy Center at Discovery Elementary serves students with focused instruction and the belief that all students can benefit from being taught to read and write...

Fancy F’s and elegant L’s

Kentwood Erin Albanese

This teacher gives her students extra credit for completing vocabulary assignments in cursive...

Third graders have the solution to organizing toys in messy bedrooms

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Students at Discovery and Explorer elementary schools are creating prototypes for toy storage containers by using the design thinking process...

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...

‘All of their stories come together’

Places of Refuge Erin Albanese

In a school district that is home to many not born in the U.S., seventh graders dive deep into learning about and welcoming newcomers from all over the world...

Musicians take on anything but classical

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Forty-four students become immersed each morning in music styles ranging from bluegrass to alternative rock in the Anything But Classical Orchestra...

A and B student strives for success, from a motel room

Homeless, with Homework Erin Albanese

A homeless Kent County teen talks about stressors, family, schoolwork and life in a motel...

Choose to Include event brings together athletes of all abilities

Kentwood Phil de Haan

The word of the day was fun...

They got the moves like coders

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Hundreds of district students took part in the national Hour of Code...

Shooting for a greener school

Kentwood Erin Albanese

They used design thinking to come up with solutions to make the school more environmentally friendly...

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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.

Future CFO on next step: ‘an actual dream come true’

Ninth-grade soprano has big dreams of Broadway

Tour sparked interest in welding

He forecasts snow days with increasing accuracy

Young musicians team up with orchestra to play recorders & do the hand jive

A career in auto repair? For some students, it starts in high school

Lightbulbs are going on thanks to Home Essentials class

New math curriculum spurs creative thinking

Paper quilt stitches cultures together as one colorful community

District addresses needs of autism students with smaller classrooms

Podcast: Schools hearing concerns from families over federal deportation plans

Podcast: ‘Serious fun’ leads to serious success

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