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School News Network continues its reporting on how districts, teachers and families are helping students learn both inside and outside the school walls during the coronavirus pandemic. We want to serve our schools and you, our readers, during this challenging time, so please send us your ideas for stories we should be telling and questions that should be answered. Thank you, and live safely!

Virtual preschoolers stay on track, connect through activities

Empowering Abilities Erin Albanese
Read-alouds, group songs, fine-motor skills, weekly teacher-parent-child meetings are all happening online...

Students see light at the end of the tunnel

Forest Hills School News Network
A few area high school students share why they are getting the COVID vaccine...

‘School is about relationships’

Northview Morgan Jarema
New hire will coach football, work to increase student engagement...

Distance learning becomes a permanent choice

Kelloggsville Phil de Haan
The district has learned a lot about online education during the COVID pandemic and wants to keep a virtual option available...

The year of learning virtually: a challenge for students and teachers alike

School 2.0 Charles Honey
Local districts are making adjustments to better serve their online students, even as more return to classrooms...

Move to four days a week in person delayed by one week due to increased COVID cases

School 2.0 Phil de Haan
GRPS students in grades K-8 who were in person for learning just two days a week will have a choice to be in class four days a week or go to all-virtual learning starting in April...

Fighting illness with air handling

School 2.0 Phil de Haan
Across Kent ISD, schools are finding ways to provide more and cleaner air to students and staff...

Students, teachers and parents climb the virtual learning curve

School 2.0 Charles Honey
A year after schools statewide were forced to close their doors by a rampant virus, teachers and students alike have learned a ton about how to do online learning...

Teaching in the ‘virtual world’ and jumping from Zoom to Zoom

School 2.0 Erin Albanese
Spending the school year teaching her 29 students remotely has been a new experience full of challenges for Wyoming Public Schools fourth-grade virtual teacher Lysa Stockwell -- but there is a lot going on that is positive...

Districts ready to spend COVID relief dollars — once state allocates them

School 2.0 Erin Albanese
Area school districts are waiting for federal relief funding to address the year-long impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Superintendent pinpoints funding needs during pandemic and beyond

Godfrey-Lee Beth Heinen Bell
Federal COVID relief funding will help, but larger needs remain in Godfrey-Lee Public Schools, Kent County’s poorest school district, says Superintendent Kevin Polston...

Districts on the hunt for 3,000 missing students

School 2.0 Charles Honey
School leaders have been working to find students who didn’t show up in the fall, make sure they’re being educated and maybe even persuade them to return...

Distance learning hones collaboration, forges close connections

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark
Three elementary teachers share how they have learned resilience and are reimagining how they engage their students outside the traditional classroom setting...

How one school reached out to missing students

Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Union High School principals and teachers tracked down missing students to see how they’re doing, where they’re learning and whether they’ll come back...

Thankful for parents, thankful for teachers

School 2.0 Erin Albanese
The pandemic has expanded parents’ role in education, from homework helper and field trip chaperone to full-time teacher and Zoom monitor. Educators, too, have adapted...

‘Hope on the horizon’ as local teachers start getting COVID-19 vaccine

Kent ISD Alexis Stark
Lincoln School special education teacher, Ann Post believes there is 'hope on the horizon' for Kent ISD teachers and educators across Kent County after receiving her first round of the COVID-19 vaccine...
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