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Governor Visits Kentwood, Talks About Early Education Investment

Kentwood Erin Albanese

The state's investment into early childhood education programs has resulted in 830 more children in Greater Grand Rapids attending tuition-free preschool this year compared...

Newcomer Program Provides Immigrant Students a Foothold for Language, Academic Development

Kentwood Erin Albanese

With curious faces, students in Kentwood Public Schools' Newcomer Center Program greeted visitors to their classroom, some smiling shyly and others offering beaming grins. The...

Teacher in the Running for Top Math Award

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Editor’s note: This is part of a continuing series on the difficulties many students have with math, and what methods some schools and teachers...

Students Hit the Links After School Thanks to The First Tee

Kentwood Erin Albanese

When Bowen Elementary School fifth-grade student Breanna Scott took her turn putting, the golf ball rolled past the hole. Brendan Coallier, an intern for The...

Teachers Teach Each Other, Share Expertise

Kentwood Erin Albanese

East Kentwood Spanish teacher Rachael Ubaldo read the words “la tortilla Espanola” during a game of vocabulary bingo. “Oooh!” teachers said in unison as...

Van Andel Institute Experience Moves Students to Become Scientists

Kentwood Erin Albanese

In Van Andel Institute’s (VAI) research laboratories, scientists are constantly researching ways to improve human health and medicine. They examine cell reactions, cancer growth...

Maranda Welcomes Area Teachers for Back-to-School Advice

Kelloggsville Adrian Hirsch

WOTV4's Maranda Where You Live program recently invited four teachers from Kent ISD schools to discuss their favorite things about being a teacher and...

Kentwood Students Make Gains in Learning While Having Fun in ARCH Summer Program

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Soon-to-be fifth graders Amaree James, Jerreh Saidykhan and Jordan Steffen dug for a buried clue in the dusty dirt of Meadowlawn Elementary School’s baseball...

Band Teacher of the Year Challenges Students Beyond Typical Level

Kentwood Erin Albanese

There was a happy vibe in band teacher Jim Ross' Pinewood Middle School band room. While playing clarinets, flutes, drums, saxophones, trombones and other...

Lookin’ Good: Middle School Students Learn How to Tie a Tie from Local Professionals

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Local hip-hop artist George Moss demonstrated how to tie a tie to Crestwood Middle School students. "Shwoo," he said, flipping the long end of the...

Alternative Students Challenged to “Be Phenomenal”

Kentwood Erin Albanese

If you can survive on the streets, you can survive in school and, later, in the marketplace. If you don't, there will be very...

The Supes

Byron Center Tom Rademacher

When there's time – and usually there's not – Dan Takens will pilot his car the 10 or 11 miles from his office at...

More Than 1,000 Dads Bring Kentwood Elementary Children to School for Event

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Challenger Elementary first-grade student Omar Aganovic thought about how it feels to have his father, Sanel Aganovic, with him at school for breakfast. Omar...

African-American Male Mentors Read to Kentwood Students, Show Them Possibilities

Kentwood Erin Albanese

For African-American male community leaders who visit Kentwood elementary schools to read to students, the hour they devote each week is about much more...

Students, Teachers to Converge for Annual Livestream for Education

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

For Linda Olejnik, attending her first Livestream for Education was like getting "a creative shot in the arm for teaching" in her American literature...

Iditarod Comes to Life as Students Meet Sled Dogs, Cheer on Mushers

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Pulled by lead dog Storm and a team of six other Siberian Huskies, Endeavor Elementary second grader Malachi Geemes rode atop a dog sled...

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