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A chain reaction of creativity

Byron Center Erin Albanese
STEM class is all about handing students the tools for a project, giving them a challenge and letting them, like a marble, roll with it...

A year of adventure cut short

School 2.0 Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
For many exchange students, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant going home early, missing key high school moments...

Learning from a distance: ‘Keep them happy and keep them learning’

School 2.0 Charles Honey
In this moment of social distancing, it’s an alternative way to get at the school’s aim of helping all students learn, yet in drastically different and varied circumstances...

For seniors, a memorable finale cut short

School 2.0 Morgan Jarema
Area high school seniors talk about their worries, and offer valuable perspective to their peers and others on the statewide school closure...

Districts face hard choices in timing of ballot requests

School 2.0 Charles Honey
District leaders have had to weigh whether to go ahead as scheduled, or postpone them because of the coronavirus health crisis...

A formula for teaching algebra

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Forget cramming study guide notes before a test...

An explorer, a tropical island, a pineapple

State of the Arts Erin Albanese
The state-wide contest is in its eighth year...
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Online story time, virtual PE keep students connected during shutdown

School 2.0 Charles Honey
'They need to see we’re smiling and happy and that we’re OK, and that they’re going to be OK too'...

Tug of (Revolutionary) War

Byron Center Erin Albanese
A game with mismatched teams is a favorite activity each year in fifth grade teacher Josh Smith’s class...

Math intervention aims to reach every student

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Different students may be in groups weekly, depending on what standards they have met...

To Australia with love

Multi Districts Morgan Jarema
Area students are spearheading fundraisers to support those affected by bushfires in Australia that have been burning for months...

District seeks $80 million to build new fifth/sixth grade building

Byron Center Erin Albanese
In the past 11 years, enrollment has burgeoned by more than 1,000 students to 4,256 students this school year...

Second graders pitch questions to new superintendent

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Superintendent Kevin Macina has been happily busy since beginning his new job Jan. 1, including being peppered with questions by Countryside second graders...

‘He makes us feel like we are home’

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Dan Takens, who retired Dec. 31, was one of School News Network’s first advisory superintendents...

Clued in to student learning

Byron Center Erin Albanese
At West Middle School, 78.1 percent of eighth graders were proficient in social studies and 73 percent of seventh graders were proficient in math. Those scores are number one in Kent County and among the top in the state, showing big increases from last year...

‘He makes us feel like we are home’

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Dan Takens, who is retiring Dec. 31, was one of School News Network’s first advisory superintendents...
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