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‘I want her to know she’s not alone’

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Cello prodigy and sixth-grade student Cameron Renshaw will host a concert at Wealthy Theatre to raise money for his former teacher who is battling a rare bone cancer...

Friendships form through positive links

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Byron Center’s LINKS, recognized by Special Olympics, pairs up students for fun and friendship...

Go blue! Two schools earn national ribbons of excellence 

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Brown and Marshall Elementary staff and students celebrate their Blue Ribbon School recognitions at Van Singel Fine Arts Center...

Annual LINKS lunch serves pre-holiday staff meal

Byron Center Alexis Stark
LINKS students at Byron Center High sent their teachers off with full stomachs right before Thanksgiving break...

‘We take care of one another’

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Kris Vydareny is the new principal at Marshall Elementary School...

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...
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