Erin Albanese

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Erin Albanese is managing editor and reporter, covering Kentwood, Lowell and Wyoming. She was one of the original SNN staff writers, helping launch the site in 2013, and enjoys fulfilling the mission of sharing the stories of public education. She has worked as a journalist in the Grand Rapids area since 2000. A graduate of Central Michigan University, she has written for The Grand Rapids Press, Advance Newspapers, On-the-Town Magazine and Group Tour Media. Read Erin's full bio

Students deliver gifts to peers, fulfilling holiday wishes

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Students spent $1,500 in council funds to grant 40 of 70 wishes. Several students and teachers made wishes to give to others...

Educators connect students with workforce opportunities

Career Exploration Erin Albanese

Apprenticeships provide pathways to in-demand, high wage careers, a U.S. Department of Labor representative recently told high school students...

Something fishy going on in fourth-grade classroom

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Students begin a several-months project raising salmon from egg to release...

Students recognized on diplomas for biliteracy

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Michigan is one of more than 30 states to offer the seal. In Kent County, 113 students earned it, far more than any other Michigan county...

GRCC offers new certification in Supply Chain Operations Management

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

The community college is paving the way to equip people with introductory skills -- and meet the needs of employers -- to manage all facets of bringing goods from producer to consumer...

Figure this: numbers are like toys in Math Circle

Making Math Add Up Erin Albanese

‘It’s math for the sake of math – just for fun. In class you are taught math. Here you experience math’...

A gift fit for knights

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Brookwood Elementary School students were declared official Knights of the Realm for their respectfulness, responsibility, kindness and other traits that follow the Code of Chivalry, a moral system from the Middle Ages...

Rise Up!

Byron Center Erin Albanese

‘There is so much value in teaching the non-curriculum stuff. When it comes down to it, we are hoping we can produce good citizens of the world’...

Workforce training programs show big economic impact

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

A year ago, Elizabeth Jose Pena wasn’t sure what her next career step should be. “I was a lost individual... I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my life.” What a difference a fast-paced training program can make...

Whipping up a love for cooking

Kentwood Erin Albanese

The extracurricular, after-school activity that has been offered to sixth-through-eighth graders for several years, brings students together for made-from-scratch cooking, from food prep to finished dish...

Current events, social justice focus of film fest winner

Wyoming Erin Albanese

When considering events that have shaped her generation, senior Quiana Wade thought of the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012, and of U.S. Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage in 2015. She included images and messages about both events in her first-place-winning video for the student Mosaic Film Experience Mobile 2018 competition...

Design looks ‘like a campus,’ principal says

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Construction will start in the spring on work that will eventually consist of $40 million in improvements at the high school...

High school construction serves as learning lab

Byron Center Erin Albanese

The expansion has teachers and students going outside to consider the work from paper to finished product...

Science unplugged

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Seventh-graders, tasked with devising ways to generate electricity on their own, created windmills, water wheels and generators...

Sleep from A to ZZZ

Kentwood Erin Albanese

It’s hard to focus on school f you haven’t had your z’s, sleep educators from the Farmington Hills-based nonprofit organization Sweet Dreamzzz recently told Townline Elementary students...

Googling their way into IT

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

GRCC students are earning Google IT certificates, increasing their career readiness as they enter the industry...

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School News Network reports on the 20 public school districts in Kent ISD, which enroll more than 102,000 students. Founded in 2013 as an initiative of Kent ISD, we are supported by local districts and community sponsors, and powered by an experienced team of reporters, editors and multimedia journalists. We specialize in covering classroom teaching and learning, analyzing the many issues facing students and highlighting the education magic that happens each day in our public schools.

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