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During an imagination warm-up activity before the new year, a room full of Thornapple Kellogg Middle School sixth-graders helped a visiting author make up a whimsical story about a boy, some pigeons and supernatural sticky mud.

Chloe Tobias closed her eyes, laid her head in her hands on her desk and listened to the calming sounds of wind chimes. The TK middle school student said the sound made her happy and she felt calm.

With lights flashing, a Barry County Sheriff’s deputy led a Thornapple Kellogg school bus and van on their way to make a very important delivery Thursday afternoon.

The Thornapple Kellogg Board of Education is beginning the search for the next superintendent to lead the district. Please read the information about the search and join in taking the community survey. The survey is open now and will close at midnight Feb. 9. Thank you for your support of the Board as they take on this important task.

It took 19 rounds of spelling words before the TK Middle School 2024 Spelling Bee Champion was crowned and a worthy opponent earned the runner-up title Friday morning.

In 2019, voters in the TK School District approved a $42.8 million bond. Now, in 2024 the promises made for those bond funds have been kept. Thanks to TK Alum John Garner for putting this video together. And a big THANK YOU, to our TK community for your support then, now and always! Together, we are #TKSTRONG

Winter in West Michigan is not a matter of "if" it comes - it's "when" it comes. Right now, that means it’s a busy time of year for middle school students in Lil Lienesch’s service learning class. Students collect, sort, organize and inventory donations of new and gently-used winter coats, hats, boots, scarves, gloves and snow pants. This time of year they’re busy filling donation requests and delivering items to schools for families in need.

Retired Thornapple Kellogg Schools Superintendent Tom Enslen will serve as Interim Superintendent at Thornapple Kellogg while a search for a permanent superintendent takes place. The TK Board of Education approved a contract with Enslen to begin serving the TK district January 1, 2025. TK Superintendent Craig McCarthy announced he will retire December 31, 2024 after serving 6 ½ years at TK in administrative roles.

Cheers filled the sixth-grade classroom as one group after another celebrated a successful roller coaster run. But it didn’t come without a lot of troubleshooting, trial and error, and working together.

Thornapple Kellogg — Rojean Sprague comes from several generations of educators. Between her and her husband’s families, the Thornapple Kellogg Middle School geography teacher said they have had nearly 46 teachers combined.