Getting kids inspired about the so-called ‘hard skills’ of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) isn’t as difficult as many think. Watch any kid engage with a gaming or other device and you get the picture. That’s the idea behind Kettering University’s Robotics demonstration scheduled to take place at the Moving You Forward Opportunity Expo, […]
Since its grand opening in 2018, Flint’s Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village has become a community hub and oasis to many area families. On any given day, the center is abuzz with activity from academic, art, and athletic activities to community enrichment programs. This fall it is also home to the GearUp2Lead Invictus Academy, an alternative […]
It’s no secret. There is a talent gap in Michigan and it must be closed for the state and its residents to be successful. Local business and education leaders with pioneering solutions to bridge the gap can get help to implement the programs thanks to $59 million in Marshall Plan for Talent innovation grants. The […]
If your elementary school music class was anything like mine, you listened to an ancient record of Peter and the Wolf, learned songs for pageants (with lyrics half the kids didn’t remember), and a bunch of other stuff you can’t remember … despite a memory of being in the classroom. Well, then perhaps it is […]
The Center for Civil Justice (CCJ) in Flint will intensify its efforts to increase access to federal nutrition programs for Michigan youth. Supported by the Walmart Foundation, a grant from the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) will be used to help CCJ address the need by school resource-providers to improve their food service initiatives. […]
It’s May and a third grader – let’s call her Susie – is having trouble grasping math. She keeps struggling, but when June comes around her grades are good enough and she is passed on to fourth grade. There she’s expected to be ready for math at that grade level, but she isn’t and most […]
Field trips to the Flint Cultural Center have opened up uncountable young minds in Flint and Genesee County. They gazed at the stars and dreamed of discovering far-off plants at the Longway Planetarium, discovered a love of art at the Flint Institute of Arts, learned about acting at the Flint Youth Theatre and dreamed of […]
Come 2019, Flint will have a new free charter school. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Flint Cultural Center Academy took place June 26 on the vacant land behind Sloan Museum and Flint Institute of Music. Projected to open in fall of 2019, the Flint Cultural Center Academy is a free charter school beginning with […]
The Flint Community Schools (FCS) Board of Education has opened a formal search process for the superintendent position and hopes to identify a new leader for the district by September. Interim Superintendent Gregory Weatherspoon has been serving on a temporary basis since March 2018. Candidates must have prior K-12 teaching experience; the ability to be […]
Parent, friends and teachers celebrated the graduation of 223 Flint Community Schools students on June 6 at Whiting Auditorium. Graduates were from Flint Southwestern Classical Academy, Flint Northwestern and the Accelerated Learning Academy. “I will remember this night forever,” says Malika Triplett, Flint Southwestern Classical Academy graduate. “My classmates and I have worked hard to […]