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Wyoming, EGR and TK superintendents announce retirements

Multi Districts School News Network
Tom Reeder, superintendent of Wyoming Public Schools, and Sara Shubel, superintendent of East Grand Rapids Public Schools, announced their retirements last week, after Tom Enslen of Thornapple Kellogg announced his last month

Teachers help teachers take it to the next level at Van Andel Education Institute

All Districts Erin Albanese
Mastermind is a group of West Michigan teachers, principals, social workers and other educators who have met monthly at Van Andel Education Institute this school year, working together to overcome challenges common to many of them

‘Together, we’re educating an awesome child’

Rockstar Teachers Jaye Beeler
“It’s very important that they enjoy being here. I’m trying to capture that first-day-of-school enthusiasm every day.” - Rockstar Teacher Brittany Brown

It Draws, It Spells, It Colors, at Touch of a Tablet

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler
Moving at lightning speed, second-grader Logan Shank beat his teammates Exley Roon and Emma Bowman to the Sphero, a miniature robotic orb, effectively becoming...

Star Fleet to Mission Control: Egg Incoming!

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler
At STARBASE Battle Creek, located on the Air National Guard Base, the four-girl team of Page Elementary fifth-graders knew the landing was a one-shot...

‘One Simple Thing Can Spread Kindness’

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler
The Thornapple River bustled through the Middleville dam as six high school students cleared brush, scraggly trees, a carpet of bristly grasses and unwanted...

The First Thanksgiving, Through the Eyes of Its Children

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler
In Michelle DeVries's first-grade class at McFall Elementary School, Lilee Grinnel and Braylee Tep inspected the Indian corncobs soaking in water –- which DeVries...

College Savings Gets Kickstart from Community

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler
For Case DeBoer and his family, saving for college has already started with a $50 community investment in his post-secondary education. Perhaps the 7-year-old McFall...

Dia de los Muertos a Celebration of Life

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
Schools throughout Kent ISD this week studied and celebrated Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a a Nov. 2  holiday to honor the...

Challenged Students Find Freedom on Horseback

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler
Five-year-old Desi Golnek – fitted in a riding helmet - sat astride Scooter, with volunteer David Drombowski holding the horse's bridle and Thornapple Kellogg...

From Schoolyard Garden to School Plate

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler
At the middle school, a learning garden designed by resource room teacher Amy Forman hums along with flat-leaf parsley, Thai basil and burpless cucumber,...

Two Teens Learn Each Other’s Language, and More

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler
In late June, Eryn Schell left her small community along the Thornapple River to live in Shiga Prefecture, Japan for nearly three weeks. Eryn...

Athlete, Goat Farmer, ‘Chill’ Encourager

Meet Your Administrators Jaye Beeler
School: Thornapple Kellogg Middle Other positions you have held in education: Health/PE teacher for 12 years. My first year was at Grand Rapids Public Schools,...

A Riches of Rookies

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler
Thornapple Kellogg Schools -- all 125 square miles of this rural district -- is feeling happy, hopeful and mostly healthy, says Superintendent Tom Enslen....

A Heaping Harvest of Fun

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette
Editor's note: This is a personal commentary by Linda Odette, a School News Network reporter who covers Thornapple Kellogg Schools "Hey, how did a tomato...

Students Make it All in Makerspace Room

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette
The words a mother painted in big letters on the Lee Elementary makerspace room's wall told the story of the room best. "Passion. Discover....
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