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Meet Your Administrators

Get to know the new leader in your school: This series captures the passions, personalities and goals of new administrators.

Providing ‘safe spaces’ for students of every kind to learn

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Collins Elementary Principal Mitchell Balingit has been named the district’s first director of student success and equity...

Being principal of alternative school ‘really speaks to my heart’

Meet Your Administrators James Harger

Danielle Hendry, the new principal at MySchool@Kent, says her school’s nontraditional setting offers nontraditional students an opportunity to live a successful life...

Teacher pleaser, shoe tier, lifelong learner

Comstock Park Hannah Lentz

Tiffany Jackson is the new Stoney Creek Elementary School principal. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet the Principal...

Right place, right time for new district chief

Caledonia Hannah Lentz

The greatest lesson that Dedrick Martin will apply to his new position as Caledonia superintendent came from students during his teaching days, he said...

‘Education is in my blood’

Comstock Park Hannah Lentz

Besides decades of working in area public schools, David Washburn grew up in a family of educators, including his father, former Forest Hills Superintendent Michael Washburn...

Former teachers now elementary leaders for GRPS

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Thomas A. Standifer II is the new principal of Mulick Park Elementary School and Julie Fogg Reyers is the new Ridgemoor Park Montessori principal. SNN gets to know them in this edition of Meet Your Principal...

Family man with a mega-resume settles in as principal

Cedar Springs Janice Holst

Brian Balding is the new Cedar Springs Middle School principal. SNN gets to know him in this edition of Meet the Principal...

Champion for children, up-and-comer in Gaga ball

Meet Your Administrators Erin Albanese

Cheryl Corpus is the new Gladiola Elementary School principal. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet Your Principal...

New Sparta superintendent: ‘Put me in, coach, I am ready to play’

Meet Your Administrators Janice Holst

The first question Pete Bush was asked by the student panel during the superintendent interview process was how he would decide on closing school for snow days. That, he said, is an important question, because it deals with school safety...

Baseball, high school, happiness

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Amy Pallo is the new Eastern High School principal. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet the Principal...

Former rule-breaker, current relationship-builder

Godwin Heights Bridie Bereza

Bradley Tarrance is the new principal at Godwin Heights Middle School. SNN gets to know him in this edition of Meet Your Principal...

Back to the classroom, except it’s all the classrooms

Meet Your Administrators Hannah Lentz

Attorney and financial analyst by license, educator by choice, Thornapple Kellogg’s new superintendent Rob Blitchok is ready to introduce himself to the community...

Of travel, teaching, and Timberlake

Kelloggsville Bridie Bereza

Beth Travis is the new principal at East Kelloggsville Elementary School. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet Your Principal...

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 superintendent aims to be “positive influence” throughout district

Cedar Springs Janice Holst

Smith has been in education for 25 years — as a teacher, a principal or in other administration roles. “That collection of experience prepared me for this opportunity in Cedar Springs” he said...

Once he knew the why, ‘Everything fell into place’

Kent ISD James Harger

Jeff Bush, the new principal at Kent Innovation High School, was not a star student when he was in high school...

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She nurtures them, and they bring her joy

Working in education, ‘You can really make a difference in a community’

‘They teach me to be a better version of myself’

Educator focuses on cultivating passions

Full symphony orchestra joins strings & marching band

Marching band showcase culminates ‘big effort every day’

Real-world scenarios meet STEM fun

ArtPrize exhibit honors veterans & their stories

Same family, different major goals

Summer internship leads to national news segment

What do you want to learn? Zinser students weigh in

These middle-schoolers strive to be strong readers

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