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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....

Today’s Graduates Meet Tomorrow’s Rock Stars

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette
Graduates parading down the halls of elementary and middle schools in their district has become a tradition at some schools, and Thornapple Kellogg High...

Dear Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

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Editor's note: Following is Katie Marentette's letter to Leo Tolstoy, for which she won the state award for the Library of Congress Letters About...

A Letter to Leo Wins Library of Congress Award

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette
Katie Marentette wrote a letter to Leo Tolstoy last fall and kind of forgot about it -- until she found out it won the...

Group Collaboration Produces Surprising Sources

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette
When innovation, collaboration, reading, language and writing all can be taught in a single project, it's a win-win for both teachers and students. That's...

‘Weeees’ Sure Are Fun, but Business is Hard

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette
A woodshop project can be much more than making something out of wood. A recent enterprise by three students taught them a business lesson...

Mind Sports Roundup

Forest Hills School News Network
Editor's note: Academic competition season is upon us! Each week School News Network will be running roundups of events including Odyssey of the Mind,...

Sneaky Guitars, Snooty Otters Make for Good Reading

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette
An author who visited Lee Elementary recently didn't just inspire students to put drawings of doughnuts with sprinkles on hallway walls, she made them...

‘Best Day Ever’

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette
It's fun to send a model car down a plastic track and watch it fly off a ramp. It's even more fun to send...

Teachers’ Turn to Learn

Forest Hills Erin Albanese
This year, nearly 1,000 K-12 school leaders in 45 states and 38 countries signed up to participate in Shadow a Student Challenge. It's a...

Little Jumpers Raise Big Bucks for Heart Health

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette
Lee Elementary is known to Thornapple Kellogg students as "the school where you get to do Jump Rope for Heart." It's a crazy, loud,...

Coming Soon: Lessons in Thinking

Kent ISD Linda Odette
Donna VonderHoff's AP computer science class learned how to solve a problem. While describing it that way may sound simplistic, it wasn't. The problem was...

‘You Find Yourself Striving to be Greater at Something’

State of the Arts Linda Odette
Noah Miller and Heather Price, both 2016 district graduates, are members of the Western Michigan University Marching Bronco Band and got to play at...
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