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Byron Center Alexis Stark
Seventh-grade poets ditched laptops and pencils to write poems on West Middle sidewalk using chalk, while learning about different poetic forms, tone and imagery...

Leading the leaders

Byron Center Erin Albanese
When it comes to helping students learn to be leaders, a group of student ambassadors are leading the way at Brown Elementary School...

Lighthouse project lights up learning

Byron Center Erin Albanese
With more than 100 lighthouses to choose from, fourth-graders at Marshall Elementary looked to Great Lakes’ shorelines to build replicas...

Staff shortages, increased school funding create conundrum

Issues in Education Erin Albanese
School districts finally have money in hand for new staff and programming, but are facing a lack of workers to fill positions...

Teacher awarded fellowship to bolster lessons on Constitution

Byron Center Erin Albanese
West Middle teacher Allie Burkhardt wants U.S. history to come alive for her students...

First-year program links peers 

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Nickels Intermediate gen ed, special ed students pair up to learn from one another...

Professionals: social media can lead to jobs, be a job

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Byron Center High English teachers invited the social media experts – coordinated through Kent ISD Career Readiness – as part of a modern communications unit that also includes mock interviews and making resumes...

‘It’s like getting wrapped up in a hug every day’

Byron Center Erin Albanese
These Brown Elementary volunteers keep the tailgates, fun runs and dunk tanks going, as well as everyday needs...
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A Mount Everest climb is a geography lesson in this classroom

Byron Center Brett Atwood
The students in teacher Melissa Thomas’ class assumed the role of climbers on the legendary peaks...

Kindergartners study Black Olympians

Byron Center Erin Albanese
They learned about how speeding bobsledders, elegant skaters and talented hockey players were tied to Black History Month...

Spinning off the stress

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Every now and then, two teachers bring out the wheel so students can spin for prizes — creating joy and levity...

More than just a good buy

Byron Center Erin Albanese
This history teacher is known for getting her students thinking as they learn. And she doesn’t gloss over issues that impacted America and its growth, even if controversial...

A safe landing for Santa’s helpers

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Materials for the project came from a Discovering STEM kit, donated by Grand Valley State University. The recently discontinued program was run by the GVSU’s Regional Math and Science Center...

Profesor de Rockstar: Randall Domeier

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Songs, festivities and decorations make for a lively and bright classroom, but Spanish teacher Randall Domier’s energy is what inspires and impacts his students and colleagues...

Mini-golf construction project is a stroke of STEM brilliance

Byron Center Alexis Stark
It was teacher Jessica Johnson’s second year leading sixth-graders in the project to teach them about lines, angles and using their imaginations...

School Supply Santa plans to gift staff to show support, thanks

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Denise Kooiker realizes school staff members are tired and weary. so she’s started an initiative to support their mental health...
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