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Officer looks out for students’ safety, shares life skills, lends a caring ear

Erin Albanese
Officer Todd Summerhays’ main role is to ensure safety by securing buildings, monitoring surveillance videos and responding quickly and appropriately to anything amiss...

From King Tut to Helen Keller to Elvis, students dig up historical tidbits

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Fourth-grade students of Rachel Millhisler and Jennifer Bolhuis shared their research on biographical figures from Elvis Presley to Harriet Tubman, and Neil Armstrong to Malala Yousafzai

Kindergartners immerse in nature, for a whole week

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Lessons focused on science and STEM objectives that related to weather and plant and wildlife adaptations, including observation and writing skills, service learning and unstructured nature play

First-grade service learning project brings generations together

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Murray Lake has been bringing students to Fountain View since 2008. A grant from Greater Lowell Community Wellness helps pay for monthly trips

Donation sparks program that helps students get counseling

Youth Mental Health Morgan Jarema
The program’s name, “Bridging the Gap,” comes from the decision to use the funds to help families pay for amounts not covered by insurance

‘I’m the appreciation chairperson’

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Parent volunteer Melissa Kelley-Carey says even the smallest amount of time is a big help, and that help doesn’t always come in the form of hours clocked

Sixth-graders Make Their Newbery Picks

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Book lovers and those with opinions were welcome for the middle school's second annual Mock Newbery club, which tackled many of the same books as their adult counterparts

All Aboard for STEAM Night

Lowell Morgan Jarema
The gymnasium at Alto Elementary filled with students and their families last week to experience the STEAM museum.

Water for South Sudan, with Love from Lowell

Lowell Morgan Jarema
School children and their families in one South Sudan community will be getting clean water to drink from a newly dug well, and middle...

Planning for the Future, Starting Now

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Gwen Hackett hurried into a meeting with guidance counselor Tory Parsons and apologized for being a few minutes late. She'd just come from rehearsal...

Marching in King’s Footsteps for Justice and Kindness

Multi Districts Linda Odette
On the day that people across America honored the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., students at area schools did their part to carry...

Student Scientists do Real-world Research

Lowell Morgan Jarema
If the experiments going on in the laboratory of Heather DeJonge's Lowell High School research class look like they could be happening in a true scientific context, it's because they actually are.

Letters from Santa, Courtesy of Ninth-grade Elves

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Writing letters to Santa Claus is pretty much a rite of passage in the elementary years. Having them answered by a high school-age elf...

Outdoor Classroom, Basic Living Skills Among Projects Awarded Grants

Lowell Morgan Jarema
Gifts for Learning Following are the most recent grants awarded by the Lowell Education Foundation: Mock Newbery club, $300, Middle School Kindergarten science inquiry, $539,...

For Every Child a Special Story

Lowell Morgan Jarema
What if you told someone your favorite food and color; what kinds of stories you like to read; and whether you consider yourself brave,...

Students Salute Veterans with Song and Word

Lowell Linda Odette
November is the month to be grateful for veterans and for what we have. Murray Lake Elementary fifth-graders celebrated both with a “We Are...
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