ROYAL OAK — Instructional coaches from the Royal Oak Schools district presented how they have helped improve education in K-5 classrooms at the March 11 Board of Education meeting.

EASTPOINTE — Eastpointe Community Schools has partnered with the strategic consulting firm Woolpert to provide an assessment of the district’s needs and to develop a comprehensive, 50-year facilities plan.

BERKLEY — The students of Berkley High School’s Drama Department are ready to hit the stage for the department’s next musical production.

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Students will have their voices heard on the Clintondale Community Schools Board of Education for the first time since 2020. Sophomore Kurt Violet and junior Abriana Guzman were appointed to the board at its March 18 meeting.

UTICA/SHELBY TOWNSHIP/STERLING HEIGHTS — Utica High School student Natalie Garwood has been named the 2024 Michigan Journalist of the Year by the Journalism Education Association.

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Wilbur Jones is taking years of experience in the military, education and sports back to the community where he grew up. He’s hoping to bring people together.

WEST BLOOMFIELD — Carol Hack has been a part of the West Bloomfield Youth Assistance program for approximately 35 years.

ST. CLAIR SHORES — The Lakeview Community Theatre Guild is excited to present its first musical since the COVID-19 pandemic — “Matilda The Musical,” scheduled to run April 19-21 at the Schaublin Auditorium.

WARREN — A group of Warren Mott High School students are putting the brakes on distracted driving.

MADISON HEIGHTS — When Shannon Graham noticed her 7-year-old daughter putting on a dress the morning of March 20, the Lamphere High School teacher suspected something was up.

WARREN — On the morning of March 27, Enterprise High School junior Danica Tompkins sat down at a computer inside the Warren Woods Tower High School occupational therapy lab.

WARREN — During her years as a Regina High School basketball and softball coach, Emily Frikken started each game giving her student athletes high-fives. Afterward, everyone got a hug.

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HAZEL PARK — On May 7, voters in the Hazel Park Public Schools district will decide the fate of a $150 million school improvement bond, to be paid over the next 30 years.

KEEGO HARBOR — Heading into a West Bloomfield School District Board of Education meeting March 18, some residents were hoping that board members would reverse course on a previous decision to approve demolition of the Roosevelt Elementary School building in Keego Harbor.

NOVI — Heather Stewart, a kindergarten teacher at Deerfield Elementary School in Novi, was named the Novi Community School District Educator of the Year March 18.

SOUTHFIELD — Since the Bussey Center for Early Childhood Education relocated from 19080 W. 12 Mile Road to 24501 Fredrick St. in 2020, the building has sat vacant.

CLAWSON — Clawson middle and high school students jumped into their second year of the Polar Plunge fundraising event for Special Olympics Feb. 29.

NOVI — The Novi Community School District came together during Wish Week at the schools March 12-15 to help make the wishes of two chronically ill children come true.

BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Cranbrook robotics teams recently competed in the state championships, where four out of eight Cranbrook Upper School robotics teams qualified for the VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas in April. Only 16 teens were awarded world-qualifying spots.