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Article from blog posted by Patricia Benson – September 28, 2012   Lee High School is a little gem hidden in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Student scores are soaring, the number of students attending is increasing, and amazing things are happening for all students.   All this has led to Lee...

  Congratulations to GRPS Zoo School!   An article published by Jeffrey Cunningham of Advance Newspapers describes this school’s success: The Grand Rapids Public Schools has announced that Zoo School was named among the top 25 “Coolest Schools in America” by Scholastic “Parent...

On July 19, the Mackinaw Center for Public Policy published the “Michigan Public High School Context and Performance Report Card” which is an “apples-to-apples” comparison of public high schools because it adjusts scores by taking in account the socioeconomic status of their students. ...

A Success – Our Instructional Planning Template Our Instructional Leadership Team knew that good solid planning was fundamental in the development of a quality lesson, so last year we developed a lesson plan template to help our teachers in their planning. Our template is based on UbD and incorporates...