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Creating art anywhere

State of the Arts Erin Albanese

A new reality of art lessons during the pandemic is the resource savviness required to make it work, technologically and material-wise...

Educators, writers reach out through book, website

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Team of educators invites students to tap into learning resources on their website...

Freewheeling creativity

Byron Center Erin Albanese

A trio of students build a machine to test wheel bearings on electric cars...

A clean sweep: seven districts pass funding proposals

Multi Districts School News Network

All seven school districts in Kent ISD that made funding requests to voters had them approved, despite the economic and health crises of the COVID-19 pandemic...

The Best of Jazz

State of the Arts Dianne Carroll Burdick

Trumpeter Marcus Printup brought the jazzy notes of Duke Ellington to Byron Center High School recently, where he spent a full school day with the jazz band rehearsing classics...

Districts come to voters with funding proposals May 5

Multi Districts School News Network

Seven school districts in Kent ISD have funding requests on next week’s Tuesday, May 5 election ballot, ranging from major bond issues and sinking funds to non-homestead operating millage renewals...

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...