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West Maple Empathy Project and Groves debate team honored at board meeting
Summary
Teachers from West Maple presented an eight-year empathy curriculum (cross-grade projects on food scarcity and water pollution) and principal Jason Pezemowska was honored with the Michigan Lottery's Excellence in Education Award; the Groves debate team and coaches were also recognized for state and national tournament success.
The board paused regular business to recognize classroom and extracurricular achievements in the district.
West Maple teachers described an eight-year Empathy Project linking first- and fourth-grade students. First-grade teacher Madeline Partham said the project centers on empathy and compassion, research and solution design; fourth-grade teacher Kara Frye described fall…
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