Big Rapids Public Schools - Educating Our Future

In this edition of Making the Grade, we highlight the achievements of our student-athletes and discuss the success of Big Rapids Public Schools’ athletic programs. This episode features a distinguished panel: Mike Selzer, Head Coach of Football and Boys Track; Tim Haist, Superintendent of Big Rapids Public Schools; Cole Haist, Student-Athlete and MHSAA Member; and Dawn Thompson, Athletic Director.

In this week’s episode of Making the Grade, Big Rapids Superintendent and host Tim Haist was joined by Brookside Elementary principal Ken Ranjel, Director of Special Education Pat Craven, and Special Education Teacher Mary Quinlan to talk about special education at Big Rapids Public Schools.

This week’s studio show “Making the Grade” is hosted by Big Rapids Public schools superintendent, Tim Haist. Haist is joined by Kelly Hall-Smith, a first-grade teacher at Brookside elementary, Jaime Knape an MTSS Implementation Specialist, and Elizabeth Robinson an MTSS coordinator. In this episode, they will be covering the implementation of MTSS in Big Rapids Public schools.

Welcome to 2024 spring semester’s first episode of Making the Grade. In this week’s episode we hear from DeAnna Goodmen, Tiffany Wolak, Justine Bouman, and host Tim Haist about Eastwood Elementary School and the process of bringing kindergarten back to the school.