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

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

Water everywhere, but is it safe? Students take a closer look

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Students examine what’s in the water from wells in area municipalities, as well as in tap water from their schools and homes

Refugee author tells students, ‘It is the story of your community’

Godwin Heights Erin Albanese

Sandra Uwiringiyimana’s story of fleeing conflict and leaving her country behind resonated with students who read and discussed her book, “How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child.”

First-grader donates nearly 200 books to his school highlighting black history

Caledonia Erin Albanese

David Donaldson knows a lot about Katherine Johnson, an African-American woman and mathematician who made major contributions to NASA. He’s read about her in...

Olympic-style reading events push students to go for the gold

Kelloggsville Erin Albanese

Forget a pentathlon or decathlon; Southeast Kelloggsville Elementary School students completed up to 20 events for the “Read for the Gold!” March is Reading...

Students march for their lives: ‘If others aren’t going to do it, I think we should’

All Districts Erin Albanese

Six teenage organizers from Forest Hills and Grand Rapids led a crowd of thousands in the March for Our Lives at Rosa Parks Circle

Students, staff discuss importance of diversity in a mostly white district

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Students are inviting all to the table to talk about diversity and spur a movement to show all are welcome in Byron Center

“I realize what a privilege it is”

Rockstar Teachers Erin Albanese

Rockstar Teachers Series: There's just something about certain teachers that draws students to them in droves and keeps them checking in years, even decades...

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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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New math strategy equals confidence, competence

Alum shares love of reading, writing with students

Training a robot, one fish at a time, in Hour of AI

Speech, occupational therapy blend during weekly class

High school students lead lessons for middle-school peers

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Students shape conversation at annual Listen. Learn. Lead. event

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