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Middle schoolers design mini spaces with artistic style and flair

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Students emulated artists’ styles and design principles, just one project teacher Janine Campbell challenges them with so they can create art with a client or career field in mind...

‘He’s ready for the world’

Grads with Grit Erin Albanese
Byron Center High School senior Nik Ursiny will graduate May 23 after learning to manage and overcome physical and mental conditions -- taking hold of his own story and advocating for himself...

Teacher blends love for dogs, learning to publish children’s book

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Teacher turned author uses her book to help students imagine themselves as writers and learn to love reading...

News hounds on the prowl for Bulldog Growl

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Fifth- and sixth-grade reporters are interviewing students and teachers on various topics to publish their monthly newsletter...

Eco-savvy students win $10,000

Byron Center Erin Albanese
West Middle School students’ project to reduce plastic in the cafeteria by making edible utensils won a $10,000 first prize in the air & climate category of the Scholastic Lexus Eco Challenge...

Students pitch design ideas for school renovation

Byron Center Erin Albanese
STEM students wore their design hats to envision and renovate the Nickels Intermediate School entrance and parking lot area...

Call for film fest entries

All Districts Erin Albanese
With its origins in Byron Center, the festival attracts hundreds of video submissions each year. Deadline this year is Feb. 8. Previously for high school students, a classroom category has been added for K-8...

Have your fork and eat it too!

Byron Center Erin Albanese
As part of a competition, students help others learn to conserve by reducing plastic waste in the lunchroom...

‘She’s one of us’

Empowering Abilities Erin Albanese
Her mother said she sees her daughter retaining information and communicating more and more. She wants to do things herself. ‘She wants to be little Miss Independent’...

Educators connect students with workforce opportunities

Career Exploration Erin Albanese
Apprenticeships provide pathways to in-demand, high wage careers, a U.S. Department of Labor representative recently told high school students...

Rise Up!

Byron Center Erin Albanese
‘There is so much value in teaching the non-curriculum stuff. When it comes down to it, we are hoping we can produce good citizens of the world’...

High school construction serves as learning lab

Byron Center Erin Albanese
The expansion has teachers and students going outside to consider the work from paper to finished product...

Pride reaches far and wide, thanks to incentive program

Byron Center Erin Albanese
High school students recently helped create BC P.R.I.D.E, honoring others for qualities that go beyond grades...

‘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...
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