In the late 1990s, during my teacher-assisting semester at Grand Valley State University, I was placed in an urban middle school near the Kent County jail in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was a world entirely foreign to the rural schools of my youth. Every morning, students filed through metal detectors at the front doors. Soon […]
Keith Kadwell
Keith Kadwell has been teaching high school English for over 27 years. A proud GVSU alum, he currently serves as English Department Chair and Advanced Placement English instructor at Lakewood High School. He has a passion for literature and writing, is unafraid of AI and continues to marvel at the tenacity of high school students. When he is not teaching he is chipping away at an unpublished novel, cooking without recipes to mixed results, and running -- for fun.