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For MLK Day, educators discuss improving equity in education

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

A leading advocate on equity in education says Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy requires educators to dig deeper into making sure all students have what they need to thrive...

Students speak their minds, open their hearts about life in a pandemic

Rockford Charles Honey

Rockford broadcasting students are sharing the emotional burdens of living through a pandemic, but also their determination to emerge stronger for the experience, in a powerful and personal video...

Stress, studies and the pandemic: a steep learning curve

Rockford Alexis Stark

In response to the social and emotional impacts brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, Rockford’s Developing Healthy Kids Campaign wants students and families to know they are not alone...

Students find a quiet place to chill out: the hygge room

Rockford Charles Honey

A calming “hygge room” has become a popular part of Roguewood Elementary’s mental-health supports for students during the pandemic...

Major factor in school closings: evidence of virus spread

All Districts Erin Albanese

While the Kent County Health Department is working hard with superintendents to keep schools open, sometimes closing is the best way to mitigate spread...

High school, Freshman Center closed for two weeks after virus outbreak

Rockford Charles Honey

Rockford High School and Freshman Center are closed until Oct. 23 after 17 students tested positive for COVID-19...

Small-town girl, athlete, talker, with her eye on the tiger

Meet Your Administrators Charles Honey

Kelly Amshey is the new principal of Rockford Virtual School. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet Your Principal...

The virtual classroom: 18 students, three screens and one busy teacher

Rockford Charles Honey

Teaching online, from a classroom, requires multitasking and multiple screens for this fourth-grade teacher...

Oh no, I’m late! Oh wait, I’m not

Rockford Charles Honey

Teacher Matt Banta wakes up in a panic on the first day of school, in his video for students about starting the school year online

Here come the students; schools try to be ‘prepared for everything’

Back to School 2.0 Charles Honey

Area school districts have to be able to switch instruction plans if the pandemic fires up again, and be prepared for the possibility of a COVID-19 outbreak in one of their schools...

Changes in virus trend prompts change in opening plans

Rockford Charles Honey

The board unanimously approved teaching all students online through Sept. 11, then giving them a choice of in-person or virtual learning...

Celebrating senior singers with a final concert, virtually

Rockford Charles Honey

Over 120 choral students in grades 9-12 will join voices in a virtual choir to celebrate the graduations of about 45 senior singers, in a prerecorded concert to be posted on the Rockford Choirs YouTube channel...

A student’s poem of hope for a tough time

State of the Arts Charles Honey

Tanith Frank, an eighth grader at North Rockford Middle School, sounds notes of courage and determination in her poem about getting through this challenging time, together...

Helping students struggling with isolation-induced anxiety and other mental health issues

School 2.0 Charles Honey

Now that they can’t meet with students behind a closed door in their office, school mental health workers are finding other ways to help...

So far, so good for districts implementing distance learning

School 2.0 Charles Honey

Under Gov. Whitmer’s April 2 executive order closing schools, districts were required to develop Continuity of Learning Plans making instruction available to all students...

All in the family: two pairs of twins go to dad’s school

Rockford Charles Honey

For Principal Dan Zang and his four children, Rockford High School is a family affair...

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Students reflect on benefits of yoga, family game time

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