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Outdoor learning opportunities grow with new structure

Byron Center Alexis Stark

Students at Countryside Elementary benefit from a new pavilion for outdoor learning...

Students safely experience distracted, impaired driving

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

High-schoolers learned about the perils of driving impaired or distracted via an international program...

Umpire, newlywed, positive-behavior-supporter

Byron Center Alexis Stark

Troy Reedy is the new assistant principal at West Middle School. SNN gets to know him in this edition of Meet Your Administrators...

District earns two Blue Ribbon honors

Byron Center Alexis Stark

Brown and Marshall elementaries have been named 2022 National Blue Ribbon Schools, the only schools in Michigan to receive the honor this year...

Christmas in August wraps up

Classrooms for All Alexis Stark

After 15 years serving West Michigan schools, School Supplies Santa goes out the way it came in: providing teachers with school supplies for the new school year...

Students orienteer to complete race

Byron Center Erin Albanese

The Adventure Race is the culmination of the school year and of sixth-grade science...

Well versed

Byron Center Alexis Stark

Seventh-grade poets ditched laptops and pencils to write poems on West Middle sidewalk using chalk, while learning about different poetic forms, tone and imagery...

Leading the leaders

Byron Center Erin Albanese

When it comes to helping students learn to be leaders, a group of student ambassadors are leading the way at Brown Elementary School...

Lighthouse project lights up learning

Byron Center Erin Albanese

With more than 100 lighthouses to choose from, fourth-graders at Marshall Elementary looked to Great Lakes’ shorelines to build replicas...

Staff shortages, increased school funding create conundrum

Issues in Education Erin Albanese

School districts finally have money in hand for new staff and programming, but are facing a lack of workers to fill positions...

Teacher awarded fellowship to bolster lessons on Constitution

Byron Center Erin Albanese

West Middle teacher Allie Burkhardt wants U.S. history to come alive for her students...

First-year program links peers

Byron Center Alexis Stark

Nickels Intermediate gen ed, special ed students pair up to learn from one another...

Professionals: social media can lead to jobs, be a job

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Byron Center High English teachers invited the social media experts – coordinated through Kent ISD Career Readiness – as part of a modern communications unit that also includes mock interviews and making resumes...

‘It’s like getting wrapped up in a hug every day’

Byron Center Erin Albanese

These Brown Elementary volunteers keep the tailgates, fun runs and dunk tanks going, as well as everyday needs...

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A Mount Everest climb is a geography lesson in this classroom

Byron Center Brett Atwood

The students in teacher Melissa Thomas’ class assumed the role of climbers on the legendary peaks...

Kindergartners study Black Olympians

Byron Center Erin Albanese

They learned about how speeding bobsledders, elegant skaters and talented hockey players were tied to Black History Month...

Friend, athlete, advocate uses abilities to help others

Her career path was laid in first grade

She helps students develop language, read, write & grow

Not just a volunteer, but ‘a piece of the library’

Mobile Farm Science Lab ‘udder-ly’ engaging

Partnership pairs high-schoolers with scientists for real-world research

Simulated crime ties science, critical thinking & data analysis

Opportunities abound at first in-house career fair

Method offers trauma-informed approach to managing students in crisis

Friend, athlete, advocate uses abilities to help others

Students explore job opportunities, build skills with holiday market

Concert empowers students to move to the music

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