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Making the best of it
Students, parents, teachers and others share their feelings about the start of this unprecedented school year...
Here come the students; schools try to be ‘prepared for everything’
Area school districts have to be able to switch instruction plans if the pandemic fires up again, and be prepared for the possibility of a COVID-19 outbreak in one of their schools...
Ready or not, school year begins as leaders adopt plans to teach, protect students
With most of Kent County’s public school districts opening next week, superintendents talk about their plans to educate students while trying to keep them safe from an unpredictable virus...
Community input key to district’s reopening plan
After initially releasing a fully in-person return-to-school plan, the district revised it twice as national, state and local health guidelines changed...
‘Middle school’s gonna love you’
The annual rite of passage for fifth graders was modified because of safety measures to help curb the spread of the coronavirus...
Above the fold: student journalists make headlines with big wins
Three area school news sites take top honors at annual state interscholastic journalism awards, held online this year...
So far, so good for districts implementing distance learning
Under Gov. Whitmer’s April 2 executive order closing schools, districts were required to develop Continuity of Learning Plans making instruction available to all students...
School’s back! Districts begin to launch Continuity of Learning Plans
Districts statewide are rolling out individualized plans by April 28 to continue learning through the end of the school year...
‘One person can change so much for so many’
'I think people need to recognize there’s something greater than themselves at stake'...
Navigating the new, for-now normal
The Cornells of East Grand Rapids on coping, disappointment, and resilience...
History: these fifth graders are really digging it
For the second year, teacher Linda Sawade recreated a site at the earliest known Colonial settlement...
An elevator, an octopus & lots of swimming pools
Students created computer models and 3D scale models of their dream homes...
‘Hamilton’ cast member and EGR alum: ‘Be spectacularly you’
Mikey Winslow also sat on the exclusive senior bench, something he said he didn’t even do while a student. You gonna tell him to move?
Write what you know, they say. These students did it
First graders wrote the books on what they know...
A life well lived? Students decide
Over about a four-week period, they came up with their own definition of ‘a life well lived’ by researching people not found in their textbooks...
Video gaming moves from virtual online to inter-school competitions
A sense of belonging and representing the school is high on educators’ lists when they explain why they are pursuing fielding teams...
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