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When Monsters Call and Teachers Read, Students Listen

The Road to Reading Erin Albanese

The shared love of a book was on display in English teacher Shantel VanderGalien's eighth-grade honors class as she read aloud from "A Monster...

‘I Get How Hard It Is’

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Teresa Dood, Parkview Elementary's Kent School Services Network coordinator, brings an awareness that is deep and real to her job linking families with resources. For...

Students Learn From the Fruits of Their Labors

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Five young apple trees grow outside West Elementary School. They are the beginnings of the Beverly Bryan Community Orchard, which could someday flourish with...

Sharing Her Music to Feed Body and Soul

Student Leaders Erin Albanese

Playing piano moves Becca Hanson's soul. That's why she makes it about something bigger than herself. She likes to share that feeling – indulgent,...

Superintendents Support Students In the Face of DACA Decision

Godfrey-Lee Charles Honey

As a mother and grandmother, Teresa Weatherall Neal knows well the value of family. And as superintendent of nearly 17,000 Grand Rapids Public Schools...

Teachers Train Together to Help Close the Gap

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

A fence illustration is often used to show the difference between equality and equity. Two pictures each show three children, one tall, one short and...

Buck Creek Hunter, Master Ear Wiggler, Life-long Wolf

Meet Your Administrators Erin Albanese

School: West Elementary Other positions you have held in education (title, school, district, state): Sixth-and-seventh-grade social studies teacher at Jackson Park Junior High School 9th...

First Day Festival

Wyoming Erin Albanese

The entire staff of educators started the school year with a morning of celebration last Monday at Grand Rapids First Church, in Wyoming. The fanfare...

Teachers Stock Up on Class Supplies, with Help

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese

Wyoming's Parkview Elementary School teachers demonstrated their love for new school supplies at the Teacher Resource Store, where they left with cartloads of notebooks,...

Six Teachers Seek National Board Credentials

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

Big names in teaching in Kent County – Michigan Teachers of the Year for 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 – have joined forces to share the...

‘Make a Place Better Than When You Got There’

Reading & Writing with Rademacher Tom Rademacher

It's not so much that Wyoming High School graduate Mirnes Kukic is bound for Harvard University as it is the personal qualities that surface...

For Immigrant Families, ‘There’s a Lot of Fear’

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Kent School Services Network coordinator Erika VanDyke wasn't sure what the turnout would be for a recent Know Your Rights event for immigrants at...

Shooting for the Top

Grads with Grit Erin Albanese

Donnie Alford owns his past with a perspective on where he comes from, where he is today and why it all matters that seems...

A Year in America, and Then Some

Multi Districts Charles Honey

In his year of study at Wyoming High School, Triet Vu learned a lot of things about America and its education system that were...

A Boost for Bicycle Safety, with Cheers

Wyoming Erin Albanese

West Elementary School second-grader Max Troche plans to wear his brand new helmet when he rides his green and black bike this spring. "I'm excited...

Settling Conflict by Settling Minds with Connective Art

State of the Arts Erin Albanese

With colorful petals radiating from a bright orange center, the mandala Circle of Art rug represents the universe and all its connectivity. For members of...

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