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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!

From relay races to flamingo stands & tissue crawls

Grandville Hannah Lentz

Kathleen Messing, a second grade teacher at South Elementary, hosted a virtual field day for her students based on 'Minute to Win It' games...

The year of schooling at home: hard work, loneliness and little blessings

School 2.0 Charles Honey

In this time of distance learning, parents like Keshia Alhasan have truly lived the adage that parents are their children’s first teachers...

Our Kids, Our Future: COVID-19 and the looming crisis in public school funding

School 2.0 Sunil Joy, research data analyst for Kent ISD

Schools had to adjust overnight to the new reality of the pandemic, and now face a funding crisis with literally billions of dollars at stake...

Father recovering from COVID-19 thanks ‘Team Gladiola’ on Zoom

School 2.0 Erin Albanese

Principal Cheryl Corpus began Parent Zoom sessions the second week of the district’s Continuity of Learning Plan, and often more than a dozen parents logged on to ask questions and connect with staff and each other...

What will school look like in the fall? Community leaders prepare for various scenarios

School 2.0 Erin Albanese

Much is still to be determined about reopening for the 2020-2021 school year, and superintendents are preparing for various scenarios. Families are asked to complete a survey to provide input and share their opinions...

‘A physical escape you hold in your hands’

Grandville Hannah Lentz

Jennifer Ward, a Grandville High School English teacher, has been purchasing and mailing reading materials to her students during online learning...

Engage students in a project from the Van Andel Institute

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Community and cultural organizations are providing many ways to enhance student learning...

‘I’m a 2020 grad, and wouldn’t want it any other way’

School 2.0 Phil de Haan

Across Kent County schools had to scramble to revamp graduation activities in a time of COVID-19...

Learning about home, at home

School 2.0 Janice Holst

A piece of area history through the eyes of an eighth grader who, via an optional enrichment class exercise, produced a photo essay on her family’s home...

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Create your own exhibit or journal outdoors with help from Zoo, Museum

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Cultural organizations are providing many ways to enhance student learning...

‘Please just stay home’

School 2.0 Morgan Jarema

An eighth grader whose parents are both essential workers has a message about the state’s executive order...

Teachers tap into one another’s knowledge for remote teaching

School 2.0 Erin Albanese

Educational technologist Brooke Storms created this list of remote learning resources, complete with free tutorials and getting-started guides...

Museum, library seek stories of pandemic for future generations

School 2.0 Phil de Haan

Poignant submissions from Kent County students are sprinkled throughout the growing collections of COVID-19 stories on the websites of both the Grand Rapids Public Library and the Grand Rapids Public Museum...

Preschoolers Zoom, play to learn

School 2.0 Karen Gentry

Comstock Park’s preschool teachers have gotten creative with online learning with their students including weekly Zoom meetings, story time, closed Facebook groups and themed activities...

Area organizations offer educational projects, learning activities to teachers, students

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Cultural organizations are providing many ways to enhance student learning...

Counselors reach out to anxious students, stressed parents

School 2.0 Erin Albanese

From anxious students to stressed parents, school mental-health workers are addressing the social and emotional problems exacerbated by the coronavirus shutdown...

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