Blog Tag: Communities In School of Kalamazoo

High School Graduate: CIS Lifted Me Up

June 19, 2018

Kanequewa Steward graduated from Kalamazoo Central High School this past spring, Last month, she reflected on her CIS experience at the 11thAnnual Champ Celebration. Kanequewa has graciously given permission for...

Why Not Let Poetry Take the Wheel?

April 17, 2018
Category: General Info

“We all need poetry,” says Tracy K. Smith, current U.S. poet laureate. Since it’s Poetry Month, here are two poems for you to consider. Lexi Weeden is in tenth grade...

What Do Kids Love?

February 13, 2018
Category: General Info

This time last year we polled a few CIS partners, volunteers, and staff to find out what they love. This year, we posed this same question to students, from kindergarten...

Boo!

October 31, 2017

Did we scare you? No? Well then, here are a few facts about kids in America that are plenty scary. 61,423 children are incarcerated throughout the United States. It is...

17 New Sparks with CIS

October 17, 2017

This is the largest group of interns CIS has yet to connect to the schools! Seventeen of the students attend Western Michigan University and one attends Spring Arbor University and...