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From Rockford to Florida, with love: 4,000 books

Rockford Charles Honey
What started as an informal conversation between friends ended up with students from Meadow Ridge Elementary sending some 4,000 books to 850 students at a Florida school...

Catch a falling star & put it in your heart

Rockford Charles Honey
In a visit to Valley View Elementary School, Patricia Polacco, the award-winning author of over 100 children’s books, told students a true story about wishing on a falling star -- or wishing for a better world...

Rehearsing for the worst: ‘The objective is to save lives’

Rockford Charles Honey
Sad but necessary: That’s the common view of the lockdown drills that are part of normal school life for today’s students. School News Network was allowed to witness one such drill at the Rockford Freshman Center...

Students celebrate Thanksgiving with a smart mouse and other literary characters

Rockford Charles Honey
Students followed their book reports with a reader’s theater presentation about Thanksgiving under the direction of teacher Rachel Devereaux. They then joined students from Jill Gumbs’ and Kimberly Fink’s classes for a parade through the halls...

Digging in at a farm made for learning

Rockford Janice Holst
A two-year pilot program has students from Rockford and Sparta schools spending multiple days at Plainsong Farm, which offers environmental education sessions...

In mixed millage results, approvals for five districts but setback for one

Multi Districts School News Network
While five local school districts won tax request approvals from voters, a defeat in Caledonia will cost the district more than $150,000 in revenue...

Politically engaged, though not all of voting age

Multi Districts Charles Honey
From canvassing for candidates to registering voters – or voting themselves – some area students have been active in the midterm elections...

Six school districts seek tax approvals on Nov. 6 ballot

Multi Districts James Harger
Voters in six Kent County school districts will be asked to vote on school tax proposals that can be found on the second page of their ballot Nov. 6...

Approval of two-part millage request ‘imperative,’ Shibler says

Rockford Charles Honey
Rockford voters will be asked Nov. 6 to both renew the existing non-homestead property tax millage, and restore it to the full 18 mills authorized by the state...

‘I deserve to live my life’

Rockford James Harger
Suicide survivor and author Kevin Hines spoke with a standing-room only group of students, parents and educators at Developing Healthy Kids VII...

Attempted suicide survivor to speak on ‘bridge of hope’

Rockford Charles Honey
Kevin Hines, whose struggle with bipolar disorder led him to attempt suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, will speak about the painful realities of mental illness as part of Rockford Public Schools’ Developing Healthy Kids series...

Students collaborate on eye-catching entries to ArtPrize competition

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
As ArtPrize 10 gets under way on Wednesday, Sept. 19, the global competition will feature the artwork of students from three Kent ISD school districts: Byron Center, Grand Rapids Public Schools and Rockford...

Stress test: students speak their minds on the M-STEP

Multi Districts Charles Honey
Rather than go back to the same hand-wringing sources about M-STEP scores, we decided to ask the people most directly affected by these tests: the students who take them...

Veteran teachers become new principals

Meet Your Administrators Charles Honey
Matthew Zokoe is the new principal at Cannonsburg Elementary and Shannon Ouellette is the new principal at Belmont Elementary. SNN gets to know them in this edition of Meet Your Principal...

She brings love and supplies from West Michigan to Haiti

Summertime Journal Charles Honey
Rockford teacher Rachel DeKuiper leads annual mission trips to Haiti to provide help for women’s health, train teachers, care for orphaned infants and children, and conduct Bible studies...

Students plan, plant rain garden to help protect Rum Creek

Rockford Charles Honey
Shortly before school let out, 150 students planted 2,000 native plants in a depression to collect stormwater runoff from roofs, sidewalks and parking lots that can carry pollutants into the creek...
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