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August 23, 2016
Category: PartnershipsPrograms
Here is a lovely poem written by seven-year-old Sevati. She wrote this during the CIS Think Summer! program.* Sevati attends Woods Lake Elementary School: A Magnet Center for the Arts....
Blog Tag: Woods Lake
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Introduction To Mindfulness: How It Helps Students
April 7, 2015
Today’s guest blogger is Jessica Smith, Western Michigan University MSW Intern at Communities In Schools of Kalamazoo. My name is Jessica Smith, I am an MSW (Masters of Social Work)...
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Twelve Days Of Kindness
December 23, 2014
Category: PartnershipsPrograms
We’re taking the next two weeks off from blogging and will return here to meet up with you again in January. To tide you over until then, we thought we’d...
Math, Music, And Refrigerators
April 22, 2014
Category: Guest BloggersPartnerships
Today’s post is written by our CIS friend and partner, Kalamazoo College Professor Dr. Eric “Rick” Barth. Let’s begin with an old clipping from my home-town newspaper, dating back to...
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One Man’s Charitable Odyssey
October 22, 2013
Category: PartnershipsPrograms
We recently welcomed a most amazing and interesting person into our midst. Imagine making it your personal mission to seek out and perform a charitable act in every state throughout...
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Pop Quiz: Liz Youker
October 15, 2013
Category: PartnershipsPop Quiz
As Director of Education for the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Liz Youker has been instrumental (no pun intended) in helping to establish Kids in Tune (KIT)—a partnership between Kalamazoo Public Schools,...
Tuning Into Music And Possibilities
July 30, 2013
Today we highlight the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, honored this past spring at the sixth annual Champ Celebration. (This is the fifth installment of a nine part series.) At Woods Lake Elementary School:...