Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success

About Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success brings you conversations with students and educators that ignite and inspire dreams. Students from all levels of education share in their own words how learning connects them to achieving their goals and exploring their ambitions.This podcast series is hosted and produced by Kent ISD Communications Specialist Joy Walczak and the team at WGVU Public Media.Kent ISD is proud to partner with WGVU in showcasing student success and how teaching and learning help make dreams come true.

Publisher

WGVU STAFF

Category

education · kids & family · kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Feb 2022

Latest episode

23 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

43 episodes in the feed.

1. 23 Sept 2026

   Three Tech Center alum return to help lead today’s Hospitality students

   A trifecta of talent returned to Kent Career Tech Center as culinary aides for the program they completed while in high school. All three share how the skills they learned as KCTC students help them now direct 11th and 12th graders enrolled in a program that prepares the next generation of bakers, butchers, sous chefs and chocolatiers.

2. 11 Sept 2026

   Lee High grad lands electric apprenticeship and hangs lighting at Amway soccer stadium

   From a work-based learning experience at CS Erickson emerged a full-time career as an electrical apprentice for Omar Rodriquez, a 2026 graduate of Lee High and West Michigan Construction Institute’s Electric pathway, a Kent ISD CTE program.

3. 12 Aug 2026

   Future teachers, artists and athletes share their dreams and how school inspires them to soar

   With the new school year about to get underway, we asked students enjoying Maranda’s Park Party Recess at Endeavor Elementary in Kentwood to share their dreams and how education may help them achieve their goals. Tim Hargis, the district’s Communications Director, joined us with insight from his years leading classrooms and as a school principal.

Who has been a guest on Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Angel
• Kayd
• Ryleigh
• High school student leaders

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 17 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

23

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

27