- "Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." ~ Aristotle - "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." ~ African Proverb - “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt - "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education." ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - "If you have a child's heart, you have his head." ~ Flip Flippen (Creator of the "Capturing Kids' Hearts" program)
Position: Secondary ELA Intervention Coach - Oversee Read 180, System 44, Lexia PowerUp, and other ELA Interventions at the Secondary Bldgs in Kentwood Public Schools, Michigan. Background: Graduated Rockford, MI 1987, Bachelors MSU 1992, Masters GVSU 2008. Taught middle school language arts in Houston, Texas (1992-2005) & Read 180 & ELA in Kentwood, MI (2005-2007), Secondary ELA Intervention Coach since 2007. Contact Info: Melisa.Mulder@kentwoodps.org or (616) 635-1470.