HomeKentwood

Kentwood

Kentwood’s Luke Wilcox Named Michigan Teacher of the Year

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Math teacher Luke Wilcox, who is credited with playing a large role in creating a culture of success at East Kentwood High School, is...

Learning From a Master

Kentwood Linda Odette

Senior Hadassah Babura learned from one of the best April 20 when she took part in an art class taught by Chris LaPorte. The...

Mind Sports Roundup

Mind Sports Roundup School News Network

Editor's note: Academic competition season is upon us! In Mind Sports Roundup, School News Network will be running roundups of events including Odyssey of...

Students Do Battle with ‘Bots, Steampunk Style

East Grand Rapids Erin Albanese

Busy 'bots, moving gears and quick-thinking pilots converged at the For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology (FIRST) Robotics district finals at East...

Growing Produce from the Ground, er, Air Up

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Discovery Elementary fifth-graders are growing up –– with leafy, green plants on their Tower Garden. Bib and gourmet lettuce, basil, rainbow chard, peppers and...

Signs of Understanding

Empowering Abilities Erin Albanese

Senior Nathan Ketchpaw uses sign language with big motions –– wide arms, a broad grin. His favorite sign? "Lion," he demonstrates, running his hand...

Fifth-grade Author Keeps Turning Out New Fiction

Kentwood Erin Albanese

In colorful markers, Oummu S. Kabba neatly wrote "O.S.K," adding a smiley face inside the "O," during her book-signing event at Barnes & Noble...

Drive-up DNA Lesson Delivers STEM to School’s Front Door

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Inside a 40-footmobile classroom parked outside their school, Southwood Elementary students got to the "true core" of their food -- its basic building blocks...

Teachers’ Turn to Learn

Forest Hills Erin Albanese

This year, nearly 1,000 K-12 school leaders in 45 states and 38 countries signed up to participate in Shadow a Student Challenge. It's a...

Helping Hands for the Youngest Newcomers

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

Kentwood resident Van Cung told representatives from about a dozen local organizations what the Kent ISD early childhood program, Bright Beginnings has meant for...

Board Member’s Bywords: Grit, Growth and Giving Back

Kentwood Erin Albanese

If Kentwood Public Schools Board of Education Vice President Allen Young was standing in front of a classroom, he would tell students to never...

Reversing Academic Decline: How One School Did It

Kentwood Erin Albanese

East Kentwood High School teachers have always known that wonderful things go on inside their school. Theirs is the most diverse in the state,...

A Bridge Between Late Childhood and Young Adult

Kentwood Charles Honey

As nine Rockford Freshman Center students munched on tacos she provided, Assistant Principal Kelly Amshey threw them an open-ended question. "How are we doing to...

From Desperation to Diploma: A Somali Refugee’s Story

Classrooms for All Erin Albanese

Note from the author: I met Arafat Abdikarim Yassin last February while visiting East Kentwood High School to write about the school's refugee population....

A Narrow Escape from Death, at a High Price

Kentwood School News Network

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Arafat's story about his experiences in Somalia before coming to America. Read about Arafat's experience in...

‘We’re on the Right Track’

Godwin Heights Charles Honey

When Principal Tricia Mathes announced to her staff that their school had been taken off the state’s list of Priority Schools, they cheered and...

1...192021...27 Page 20 of 27

- 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.

Teacher recognized for ‘excellence in Chinese teaching’

She’s in year 20, and ‘goes at it like year two’

For real, she dances a fine reel

Dedication & drive, in the dojo and beyond

Business, college and K-12 leaders come together to boost student literacy

Middle-school artists add ‘squish’ to second-grade designs

One Book, One City program culminates with visit from author

Pi Day slices fun with math

Level playing field offers connection for students of all abilities

High school broadcasters inspire middle school channel

What would closing U.S. Dept. of Education mean for special education in Kent County?

Through his eyes, he communicates

Kentwood

GET OUR HEADLINES IN YOUR EMAIL

SUSTAINING SPONSORS

MEDIA PARTNERS

ABOUT US

FOLLOW US

OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS