20 episodes
Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success WGVU STAFF
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Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success brings you conversations with students and educators that ignite and inspire dreams. Students from all levels of education share in their own words how learning connects them to achieving their goals and exploring their ambitions.This podcast series is hosted and produced by Kent ISD Communications Specialist Joy Walczak and the team at WGVU Public Media.Kent ISD is proud to partner with WGVU in showcasing student success and how teaching and learning help make dreams come true.
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Clara: Creativity drives 3D animated dreams of design and innovation
When Clara stepped into the 3D Animation & Game Design program at Kent Career Tech Center, she wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Now in her second year, she has her sights on a career in this area where she can express herself artistically while mastering high-end technology used in a growing economic sector.
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Little learners dream big at Grandville’s Central Elementary School
Dreams start early for kindergarteners in Rosi Corl’s Central Elementary kindergarten classroom in Grandville. See a gallery of the Dream Drawings young students created as they describe their hopes for the future.
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Rubi: Future chef, baker and business owner achieves recipe for success
When she’s not in school or studying, you may find Rubi Esquival-Estaban in the kitchen trying out a new recipe or baking a favorite treat for her family. The Grand Rapids UPrep senior is gathering all the ingredients to make her dream of opening her own bakery one day a reality
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Empowered student leaders are reaching dreams with school support
Their dreams are as diverse as their backgrounds and experiences, but one thing scholars in Kent ISD’s Student Leadership Community have in common is that their educational experiences are helping them reach their goals beyond high school
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Whether it’s welding, sports medicine or physical therapy, students are moving toward goals with school support
As they inch closer to graduation, three high school students share their career ambitions and the efforts of educators and school staff to empower them to reach for their dreams.
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From Nigeria to nursing, Miriam moves toward her dream
Host Joy Walczak speaks with Miriam Ijor-Amachree, GED and CTE Adult Education graduate and Marty Marquardt, GED Instructor, Kent ISD Adult Education