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Home > Elementary Schools > Meadow Brook Elementary > Unified Champion School and LINKS

Unified Champion School and LINKS

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What is LINKS?

students laying on a carpeted floor in a circular formation

LINKS is a peer-to-peer inclusion program where students support a same-aged peer from the cognitively impaired classroom at school.

Some of the settings where LINKS support peers include:

  • General education classrooms
  • Gym class
  • Music class
  • Art class
  • Social language group
  • Motor group
  • Lunch
  • Recess
  • Project Unify activities
  • Bocce ball
  • Busing
  • Special education classroom
  • Field day
  • Community service project

What is Unified Champion School?

An education and sports-based program that promotes acceptance, respect, and leadership for students of all abilities while creating an inclusive school environment.

There are four components:

  • a unified sport…we play bocce ball
  • a school-wide campaign to foster diversity and respect for all
  • a community service project
  • a Youth Activation Committee (YAC)

Contact Information

  • Barbara Sluiter, Special Education Teacher
Follow us on Instagram @mb_project_unify

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Meadow Brook Elementary School
1450 Forest Hill Ave. SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546

Office Hours:
8:00am – 4:30pm, Mon-Fri

School Office: (616) 493-8740
Fax: (616) 493-8749
Child Care: (616) 493-8746

Attendance:
Phone: (616) 493-8748
Email: mbattendance@fhps.net

Principal: Dawn Heerema
Head Secretary: Betsy Bray
Secretary/Immersion: Lisa Peabody

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Full Day Start/End Time
8:45 a.m.-3:45 p.m.

Half Day Start/End Time
8:45 a.m.-11:55 a.m.

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6590 Cascade Rd. SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546

Phone: (616) 493-8800
Fax: (616) 493-8519

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