School 2.0
School News Network continues its reporting on how districts, teachers and families are helping students learn both inside and outside the school walls during the coronavirus pandemic. We want to serve our schools and you, our readers, during this challenging time, so please send us your ideas for stories we should be telling and questions that should be answered. Thank you, and live safely!
Museum, library seek stories of pandemic for future generations
Poignant submissions from Kent County students are sprinkled throughout the growing collections of COVID-19 stories on the websites of both the Grand Rapids Public Library and the Grand Rapids Public Museum...
Preschoolers Zoom, play to learn
Comstock Park’s preschool teachers have gotten creative with online learning with their students including weekly Zoom meetings, story time, closed Facebook groups and themed activities...
Creating art anywhere
A new reality of art lessons during the pandemic is the resource savviness required to make it work, technologically and material-wise...
Area organizations offer educational projects, learning activities to teachers, students
Cultural organizations are providing many ways to enhance student learning...
Counselors reach out to anxious students, stressed parents
From anxious students to stressed parents, school mental-health workers are addressing the social and emotional problems exacerbated by the coronavirus shutdown...
Creative ways to cope and learn
The Brown family is finding ways to stay educated and entertained at home...
Athletes Stay in Shape During Time Off School
An at-home athletic training program helps keep all students on the go during the school shutdown...
‘Everything we can do matters’
Seventeen teachers and staff members delivered nearly 125 graduation yard signs to the homes of Lee High School and East Lee Campus students...
School leaders working together to plan for fall and beyond
An ad hoc committee of 13 school leaders in Kent ISD is working on contingency plans to prepare for the next school year and beyond...
Just poppin’ in
Betsy Heyboer loves seeing her students during their virtual meetups, but it just isn’t the same. Or enough...
In the words of 2020 graduates
Lowell High School English teacher Heidi Kolp gives her class the chance to take a crack at crafting a commencement address...
Helping students struggling with isolation-induced anxiety and other mental health issues
Now that they can’t meet with students behind a closed door in their office, school mental health workers are finding other ways to help...
Supporting parents as teachers
Bright Beginnings was recently recognized by the national organization that sets standards for early childhood programs...
Family time includes virtual zoos, indoor gardening and arts & crafts
How one family stays busy during home quarantine...
Flipping the script on community support
Project NEXT sophomores are strategizing how to promote pickup/delivery food orders at area restaurants that have supported their schools...
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...
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