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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...

Spinning off the stress

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Every now and then, two teachers bring out the wheel so students can spin for prizes — creating joy and levity...

More than just a good buy

Byron Center Erin Albanese

This history teacher is known for getting her students thinking as they learn. And she doesn’t gloss over issues that impacted America and its growth, even if controversial...

A safe landing for Santa’s helpers

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Materials for the project came from a Discovering STEM kit, donated by Grand Valley State University. The recently discontinued program was run by the GVSU’s Regional Math and Science Center...

Profesor de Rockstar: Randall Domeier

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Songs, festivities and decorations make for a lively and bright classroom, but Spanish teacher Randall Domier’s energy is what inspires and impacts his students and colleagues...

Mini-golf construction project is a stroke of STEM brilliance

Byron Center Alexis Stark

It was teacher Jessica Johnson’s second year leading sixth-graders in the project to teach them about lines, angles and using their imaginations...

School Supply Santa plans to gift staff to show support, thanks

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Denise Kooiker realizes school staff members are tired and weary. so she’s started an initiative to support their mental health...

‘A vivid reminder’ of the need to be prepared

Byron Center Erin Albanese

School officer had student, gun in custody within moments following another student reporting it...

School develops system to address socio-emotional challenges

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Thanks to a proactive system for addressing behavior, students are learning strategies to approach challenges and stressors...

Pre-teach, teach, reteach

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Students learn through a “pre-teach and reteach model,” sometimes receiving instruction three different times as additional support...

All dressed up with somewhere to go

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Students in the Student Life and Leadership class provided girls with lots of Homecoming Dance dress options -- for free -- by collecting donated dresses from around the community...

Who says you can’t go home? Not this new AP

Byron Center Alexis Stark

Meet Your Administrators: Stephanie Hare and Gina Middaugh...

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