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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...

‘A vivid reminder’ of the need to be prepared

Byron Center Erin Albanese
School officer had student, gun in custody within moments following another student reporting it...

School develops system to address socio-emotional challenges

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Thanks to a proactive system for addressing behavior, students are learning strategies to approach challenges and stressors...

Pre-teach, teach, reteach

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Students learn through a “pre-teach and reteach model,” sometimes receiving instruction three different times as additional support...

All dressed up with somewhere to go

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Students in the Student Life and Leadership class provided girls with lots of Homecoming Dance dress options -- for free -- by collecting donated dresses from around the community...

Who says you can’t go home? Not this new AP

Byron Center Alexis Stark
Meet Your Administrators: Stephanie Hare and Gina Middaugh...

Parents show gratitude to beloved bus driver

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Parents appreciate bus driver Donna Tipton so much that they presented her with a $1,000 check...

District breaks ground on new fifth- and sixth-grade building

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Come fall of 2023, about 700 fifth- and sixth graders will have a new Nickels Intermediate School building...

Raising fish and growing foliage

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Connecting students with the wild world around them is a priority at Countryside Elementary, where students have spent the school year learning both inside a classroom that is home to fish habitats and plant ecosystems and outside where wetlands teem with scaly and furry friends...

New middle school principal is a familiar face

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Abby Kanitz will transition into the role of West Middle School principal for 2021-2022...
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Musicians, actors, artists celebrated in video presentation

Byron Center Erin Albanese
The show has gone on in Byron Center schools, with music made, theater performed and art created despite the pandemic...

District shifts to hybrid schedule for two weeks

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
An increase in quarantined students and the number of students in isolation has led to a shift to hybrid instruction at West Middle School and Byron Center High School...

For Diego, gym class ‘feels like my greatest accomplishment’

Byron Center Brett Atwood
A student with cognitive impairment finds joy in gym class, wheelchair and all...

Students create art to bring to local nursing homes

Byron Center Erin Albanese
So far, more than 10,000 pieces of artwork from 18 schools have been distributed to 18 facilities in the Grand Rapids area...

‘I know a lot has changed … but kids haven’t’

Byron Center Erin Albanese
After four years as principal at West Middle School, Wierzbicki looks forward to his new role at the central office...
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