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‘The Mary Poppins of the library’

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Mom Laura Gearhart works her magic at Countryside Elementary, rapidly shelving books and completing countless tasks...

Cops, choppers and helpers: Up close with public safety careers

Byron Center Erin Albanese

With an Aero Med helicopter as the main attraction, Byron Center students learned about first responders, their role in emergencies and careers in public safety...

Students collaborate on eye-catching entries to ArtPrize competition

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

As ArtPrize 10 gets under way on Wednesday, Sept. 19, the global competition will feature the artwork of students from three Kent ISD school districts: Byron Center, Grand Rapids Public Schools and Rockford...

‘Not only do you belong here, we need you here’

Byron Center Erin Albanese

As Byron Township’s population increases, the district’s enrollment has burgeoned and is steadily growing to represent more cultures and racial backgrounds. Efforts to celebrate diversity, increase awareness is a district-wide initiative...

Flowers, produce to yield bumper crop of learning

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Marshall Elementary students and staff members recently broke ground on their lush plat, planned through H.O.P.E (Helping Other People Eat) Gardens...

Students post open letters of kindness to special people

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Students in the eighth-grade English classes of Jamie Stevenson, Kaiti Blundy and Erin Bastic completed a journalism unit with something personal: writing letters to be posted openly for someone they care about...

Her overarching goal: to teach that American ideals are worth striving for

Rockstar Teachers Erin Albanese

Rebecca Debowski witnesses and guides her students as they learn to look at things in a more nuanced way and respect what one another have to say, from every perspective...

From homelessness to supporting himself, he’s ready for college

Grads with Grit Erin Albanese

Technically homeless, Tristen Foley worked and studied around the clock to get his diploma...

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

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

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

Students become engineers to design games, including Black Panther and the Brooklyn Bridge

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Design-thinking, meet science, technology, engineering and math. In all three of the district’s elementary schools, students are busy inventing by using a step-by-step process that allows them to develop products like real designers would

Ooey Gooey Goopy

Byron Center Erin Albanese

There's a slime-making craze oozing through preteen circles and leaving many a parent wondering, "Who ya gonna call?" when gooey trails are left on...

Need Extra Study Time? You’ve Got It

Byron Center Erin Albanese

With the end of the semester approaching, nine students in English teacher Trevor Muir's classes had unfinished essays or quizzes. Without a last-minute push Muir...

A Lot of Blood + a Portal = STEM Brilliance

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Who better than a trio of West Middle School seventh-graders to come up with The Cell Apocalypse, a video game that shows how the...

Finding Heroes ‘Right in Our Own Hometown’

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Veterans were the stars of the show when high school seniors gave a heartfelt salute and thank you by documenting the former service members' words.

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