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STEM fair projects lead to university research spots

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Four 2018 East Kentwood High School graduates used projects from last school year to get into an elite University of Michigan research program...

Collaboration centers in every school to foster student engagement

Kentwood Erin Albanese

In schools across the district, new spaces are allowing for students to come together, collaborate in innovative ways, and plug in to cutting-edge technology. A space will serve the community too...

Michigan art teacher of year makes all subjects ‘artful’

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Art teacher Adrienne DeMilner brings art into all subjects and areas at East Kentwood Freshman Campus and out into the community. She was recently awarded 2018 Michigan Art Educator of the Year and Secondary Art Teacher of the Year by the Michigan Art Education Association...

Stress test: students speak their minds on the M-STEP

Multi Districts Charles Honey

Rather than go back to the same hand-wringing sources about M-STEP scores, we decided to ask the people most directly affected by these tests: the students who take them...

From class clown to head of the school

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Andrew Kolzow is the new East Kentwood Freshman Campus principal. SNN gets to know him in this edition of Meet Your Principal...

New shoes for a new school year — for free

Multi Districts Dianne Carroll Burdick

In the Image’s annual “Shoes Help Our Elementary Students” program put shoes on the feet of 1,700 students from more than 39 elementary schools...

It’s a new school year and a new country for immigrant and refugee students

Kentwood Erin Albanese

The first day for students in Kentwood is the first day of school in the U.S. for some newcomers...

After Taking a Left Turn, He Found His Right Calling

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Justin Mathes began by tutoring youth at various schools, now the new Valleywood Middle School Principal...

Camp will offer essentials of civic learning, policy engagement

All Districts Charles Honey

Kentwood Public Schools and the Michigan Center for Civic Education are offering a free summer workshop/camp on Aug. 6-8 focused on civic learning, current events and the Constitution...

Middle schoolers pitch in to help protect waterways

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Crestwood Middle School students spent a recent sunny Friday lifting rocks, filling in eroded areas, and planting flowers to create an area where water runoff from Steelcase’s parking lot will be absorbed...

Future Fair brings career info to field house

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Students in grades 9 through 12, many of whom are still considering what they want to do after graduation, stopped to learn about various fields, collect brochures and start thinking about jobs...

Giving back as others gave to them

Student Leaders Erin Albanese

Three sisters, refugees from Rwanda, devote their Monday evenings to volunteering at the Learning Café, an education center in Grand Rapids that serves refugee children...

Students help refugee peers adjust to life, schools in the U.S.

Multi Districts Morgan Jarema

Students from a handful of area high schools are making an impact at two West Michigan organizations tasked with helping refugee students and their families succeed...

Michigan Teacher of the Year tells DeVos his concerns about school choice

All Districts Erin Albanese

East Kentwood’s Luke Wilcox and other State Teachers of the Year had the opportunity to meet with U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and shared their concerns about her policies on vouchers and charters...

Learning the language to help their children learn in school

Kentwood Erin Albanese

The KPS Parent Academy aims at meeting the needs of the 1,800 students in the district who are English-language learners by helping their parents learn English...

Local business mentors have big impact on students

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Each Friday, employees from Walther-Trowal allot a half-hour of their workday to spend time with Discovery Elementary students, doing school work and just having fun...

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