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Grants Run Gamut of Classroom Needs

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Thanks to the district's fundraising arm, Cindy Donahue and Pat Sinen will be able to purchase weighted blankets and other calming devices for Alto...

It’s Fun Feeding the Cows, Wet Willies and All

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A kid can learn a lot by spending a few hours at a dairy farm. Second-grader Alexis Porter found out that cows have four stomachs....

Trying to Find the Roundworm Fountain of Youth

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Senior Collin Rinks learned it takes the right lighting, warm water and plenty of food to put zebrafish in the mood to breed. Senior Kendra...

Buzzing with Curiosity, Students Learn About Bees

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Parker Perdaris took it in stride as his classmates secured various honey bee-body parts to a cardboard cutout he wore to simulate the head,...

Head Comforter, Organizer Extraordinaire

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Alto Elementary secretary Bonnie Gokey hangs up the telephone after assuring a parent she'll get his son, Mikey, to the office to be picked...

Love of Reading Inspires Scout’s Eagle Project

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When it came time to think about what project he would tackle to earn his Eagle Scout badge, Jared Lezan's first thought was that...

First Day in the Life 2016

Caledonia Charles Honey
Editor’s note: This year, a quartet of School News Network reporters fanned out across Kent ISD and paired with a single person experiencing his...

Clothes Pins, Hot Glue and Elmo

Comstock Park Linda Odette
District staff across Kent ISD busied themselves in the weeks and days leading up to today, readying their buildings and classrooms for students. Lowell Martha Hayden worked...

New School Leader Always Wants to ‘Make My Mark’

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School: Murray Lake Elementary Previous job: Student support administrator, Lowell Area Schools Degrees: Bachelor's in elementary education, Hope College; master's in reading, Nova Southeastern University; education...

From Fourth-graders to Tables

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Joseph Hutchinson and Jacob Patrick both like bell peppers, but beyond that the conversation becomes contentious. "They're not very good on pizza," Jacob insisted. "They are...

Parking Lot Painted with ‘Positivity & Joy’

Comstock Park Charles Honey
On a gray-grit city parking lot through some of this summer’s hottest days, a dozen students painted a bright path of hope. Their zig-zag creation...

From ‘Kings of the School to Measly Peasants’

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If you're headed to middle school in the fall and worried about the whole "small fish in a big pond" thing, William Compton says...

Students Map Biodiversity, Ecology of Natural Area

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"His name is Calvin, and he's huge." That's pretty much all freshman Hannah Foster had to say about the crawfish she netted while wading in...

Pressure Builds for SkillsUSA Nationals

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In a few weeks, Dominic Krupp will be part of a two-person team tasked with coming up with an idea for a short video,...

Seventh-graders Can’t Be Out-clevered

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Some 300 seventh-graders became authenticity sleuths recently during a science class experiment dubbed “Cracking the Case of the Clever Craftsman.” Students were presented with a...

How Clean Water Boosts School Attendance

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Alex Kaufmann and Sofia Debano joined their classmates in the Central Woodlands 5/6 school gymnasium recently to culminate a service learning project centered on the...
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