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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...
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What are CIS Staff Reading?
March 13, 2018
Category: General InfoNewsletters
It’s National Reading Month and a time when Kalamazoo Public Schools hosts literacy activities throughout the schools. We prepare ourselves by engaging in the annual ritual of asking: What are...
Creativity: A Path for Future Generations
February 27, 2018
Category: General Info
The majority of students today will be employed in jobs that haven’t even been invented yet. The predictions for this range anywhere from 65-85%. So what is a parent, a...
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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...
Gulnar Husain: A Good Life
February 6, 2018
Category: General InfoVolunteers
“When I think of Gulnar, I think of someone who hears a problem from a child or a teacher and immediately responds with, ‘Well, let’s see how we can fix...
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The Courage to Create
January 16, 2018
Category: General Info
When was the last time you pulled out some pen and paper and wrote a letter? Who did you write to? On Saturday morning, about 70 Kalamazoo Public School students...
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In This Season of Thanks and Giving
November 21, 2017
Category: General Info
As I busy myself with upcoming preparations, like menu planning and making out a grocery list, and debating if it would be best to shred or slice zucchini for a...
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Boo!
October 31, 2017
Category: General InfoPartnerships
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...
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Storms All Around Us
September 19, 2017
Category: General Info
Lately, it feels as if storms are all around us. Right now, the Kalamazoo community is weathering its own tragedy of the five young people who were killed in the...
CIS Think Summer! Students Visited by Special Guest
August 15, 2017
Students recently welcomed Congressman Fred Upton to their CIS Think Summer! program at Arcadia Elementary School. Like CIS After School (which serves 750 students in 15 after school sites throughout...