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Spreading out in the great outdoors

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Outdoor education mid-pandemic is proving to be a welcome and successful alternative to indoor, masked learning in Byron Center this fall...

Plotting for a plot

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Students’ hand-drawn maps are meant for the safekeeping of memories and to spur ideas for when they write personal narratives...

Districts ponder how to keep students learning, engaged

School 2.0 Erin Albanese
Teachers are challenged to keep their style of instruction intact with students who are socially distanced and, often, not in the building at all...

Students return to classrooms for first time since March

Byron Center Erin Albanese
'It’s a little different, and a little strange. ... but it seems like it’s going to be fine'...

Marching on

State of the Arts Erin Albanese
The plan is to continue regular rehearsals and to host a number of community events, to be determined...

Byron Center to reopen school with hybrid model

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Byron Center Public Schools Superintendent Kevin Macina said the district is opting to begin school Aug. 31 with a hybrid plan combining in-person with virtual learning, with hopes to shift to fully in person, five days a week Sept. 28...

The Class of 2020: learning to roll with it

Multi Districts Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
From 9/11 to the coronavirus, the Class of 2020 saw and experienced tremendous change within their school careers and young lives...

A father’s love, a son’s devotion, a school success

Grads with Grit Erin Albanese
Arec Winright used his memory of his father as motivation to do well in school and work hard toward graduation...
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Film students document pandemic

Byron Center Student Showcase Erin Albanese
Byron Center High School juniors Morgan Westrate and Alayna Arms captured their emotions and what’s going on in the world around them through videos created in response to the coronavirus pandemic...

Counselors reach out to anxious students, stressed parents

School 2.0 Erin Albanese
From anxious students to stressed parents, school mental-health workers are addressing the social and emotional problems exacerbated by the coronavirus shutdown...

Guiding students to becoming informed citizens

Rockstar Teachers Erin Albanese
This AP Government teacher helps students learn to become critical thinkers, and students say his passion is contagious...

Creating art anywhere

State of the Arts Erin Albanese
A new reality of art lessons during the pandemic is the resource savviness required to make it work, technologically and material-wise...

Educators, writers reach out through book, website

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Team of educators invites students to tap into learning resources on their website...

Freewheeling creativity

Byron Center Erin Albanese
A trio of students build a machine to test wheel bearings on electric cars...

A clean sweep: seven districts pass funding proposals

Multi Districts School News Network
All seven school districts in Kent ISD that made funding requests to voters had them approved, despite the economic and health crises of the COVID-19 pandemic...

The Best of Jazz

State of the Arts Dianne Carroll Burdick
Trumpeter Marcus Printup brought the jazzy notes of Duke Ellington to Byron Center High School recently, where he spent a full school day with the jazz band rehearsing classics...
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