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Teacher-designed classrooms help students feel supported, calm and creative

Issues in Education Alexis Stark
Teachers across Kent County intentionally design their classrooms to optimize their students’ learning and sense of community.

Leading to achieve

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Troy Reedy is the new principal at Byron Center High School.

New building: you name it 

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The Byron Center community is invited to be a part of the district’s history by naming the new elementary school, set to open in 2024. 

It takes a community to stage a musical

Byron Center Alexis Stark
The Van Singel Fine Arts Center’s community theater production of “The Sound of Music” brought together a cast of Byron Center staff, students and their families. 

The stage is where her heart is 

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Van Singel Fine Arts Center’s new managing director, Michelle Wagner, is detail-oriented and passionate about performing and fine arts. 

‘A mixture of nerves and excitement’

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Fifth- and sixth-graders settled into their new building on the first day of school at Nickels Elementary. 

New intermediate school feels like ‘finally Christmas’

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Byron Center Superintendent Kevin Macina and principal Tom Trout welcomed the community into the long-awaited fifth and sixth Nickels Intermediate School. 

A bumper crop of summer learning  

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Countryside Elementary’s garden is flourishing during the warm season, since the first horticulturist team began planting seeds last fall. 

Fifth- and sixth-graders to start school in new building

Byron Center Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
New Nickels Intermediate School builds on district’s commitment to fifth and sixth grades...

Young green thumbs help garden blossom

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Countryside Elementary’s first horticulturists team gets third- and fourth-graders outside and taking the lead in the garden...

‘I know I’ve got it in me’

Byron Center Alexis Stark
After beating cancer at 4 years old and succeeding academically, graduate Jessica O’Neill will pursue her goal of becoming a nurse at Davenport University this fall...

A festive display of art

State of the Arts Dianne Carroll Burdick
Student creations showcase classroom learning, creativity...

A hands-on lesson in how life works 

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Fifth-graders at Nickels Intermediate School learned during a pig dissection that animal digestive and respiratory systems aren’t that different from their own...

‘You have to know where you are & where you want to go’

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Eighth-grade explorers set out to brave the wilderness on the open plains of West Middle School for the annual Lewis and Clark Day...

Gorillas, flamingos and komodo dragons, oh my!

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Marshall Elementary first-graders are young authors and animal experts in the making...

New buildings, new friends to be made

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Students share their excitement for the new Nickels Intermediate School, on track to open Aug. 4...
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