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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

District asks millage increase for improved facilities, technology

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
If approved, the 3-mill sinking fund would generate about $300,000 annually for safety, energy, security and technology improvements...

School safety supervisor: putting out fires and building relationships

Godwin Heights Erin Albanese
As safety supervisor, Jeff Wainwright believes building relationships, along with securing doors and scanning cameras, creates the strongest sense of security for students...

Officer looks out for students’ safety, shares life skills, lends a caring ear

Erin Albanese
Officer Todd Summerhays’ main role is to ensure safety by securing buildings, monitoring surveillance videos and responding quickly and appropriately to anything amiss...

Local business mentors have big impact on students

Kentwood Erin Albanese
Each Friday, employees from Walther-Trowal allot a half-hour of their workday to spend time with Discovery Elementary students, doing school work and just having fun...

Practicing leadership on the playground

Student Leaders Erin Albanese
Sixth-through-eighth graders are using the skills they learn in the semester-long leadership class and paying them forward helping out at the elementary school to reinforce good behavior...

Ignore ‘judge-y people’ and celebrate your uniqueness, students say

Caledonia Erin Albanese
Thirty-one students entered artwork into the schools’ first Diversiprize, for which, in true ArtPrize style, students and staff members voted on what pieces best reflect themes of diversity...

New schools chief worked his way up to leadership

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Craig Hoekstra is set to begin in his new role July 1, following Superintendent Thomas Reeder, who announced his retirement last month after serving in the position for seven years...

Mariachi band adds festive cultural tradition to music program

Wyoming Erin Albanese
With a plan to someday play in the community, the new Wyoming Mariachi Band is lifting up Hispanic Heritage through music

At these schools, students’ hearts and minds are both nurtured

Kentwood Erin Albanese
Endeavor and Challenger elementary schools are both recipients of the Capturing Kids’ Hearts National Showcase Schools Award

Acclaimed artist helps students create with their ‘crazy ideas’

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Jovonnah Nicholson served as a visiting artist in Molly Marshall’s art room, creating mugs on the classroom potter’s wheel for students to embellish with their own ceramic designs

New approach lifts struggling students’ math scores

Making Math Add Up Erin Albanese
Thanks to streamlined coaching, students are filling in gaps in their basic skills so they can move forward in math

Literary lunch gets books in families’ hands

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
The event was the first of three planned this spring for third- through fifth-graders to bring in parents to spend time together and get a new book, funded through federal Title One parent involvement funds

Art + science = $500 award for student jeweler

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Lauren Doyle won an award from the Air Zoo Science Innovation Hall of Fame for her process of coating jewelry with metal by means of an electric current

Female panelists speak on success, mistakes

Caledonia Erin Albanese
What would you do if you knew you would succeed? Would you become a doctor? Write a book? Run for office? Run a marathon? That was the question put to middle and high school girls at a recent event

Statewide reading decline: how some high-poverty schools buck the trend

All Districts Erin Albanese
Principals in Wyoming and Grand Rapids identified how to use data to improve instruction, build teacher leaders and zero in on reading instruction practices

Students rap, rhyme their way through U.S. history, ‘Hamilton’-style

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
Sophomores and juniors are learning American history and weaving it into raps, poetry and dramatic skits about events and people tied to the American Revolution
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