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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!

Learning from a distance: ‘Keep them happy and keep them learning’

School 2.0 Charles Honey

In this moment of social distancing, it’s an alternative way to get at the school’s aim of helping all students learn, yet in drastically different and varied circumstances...

Trail cleanup, chicken hatching & the importance of keeping routines

School 2.0 Morgan Jarema

Counselor RJ Boudro connects with students via social media while relishing time at home with his wife and children...

Suddenly serving up thousands of pick-up meals with a smile

School 2.0 Phil de Haan

Switching from serving students in their buildings to handing out food curbside is a whole new thing for schools...

Districts work quickly to launch distance learning plans with in-person classrooms closed

School 2.0 Erin Albanese

Governor won’t reopen schools, but learning to continue...

Chalk up this neighborhood to hope

School 2.0 Janice Holst

Neighborhood with teachers and students from one district cheer each other up during school closures from the Covid 19 pandemic with a chalk walk...

Reaching out, connecting in time of crisis

School 2.0 Erin Albanese

Stacey and Julian Goodson, both coaches and youth advocates, adjust to a new kind of life at home with their children...

For seniors, a memorable finale cut short

School 2.0 Morgan Jarema

Area high school seniors talk about their worries, and offer valuable perspective to their peers and others on the statewide school closure...

Pet posts give students ‘a reason to smile’

School 2.0 Hannah Lentz

Darla England, the principal at South Elementary, has been asking students important questions accompanied by photos of staff pets to maintain communication with the community...

Students and teachers turn to technology to fill educational time

School 2.0 Janice Holst

Online platforms already in place enabled this middle school to offer continuing educational opportunities during this unprecedented time off school...

Life lessons

School 2.0 Morgan Jarema

One teacher is sharing his thoughts online, in real time...

School meal distributions to continue under stay-at-home order

School 2.0 Charles Honey

Schools are permitted to continue providing pick-up meals for students under Gov. Whitmer’s stay-at-home order...

I regret taking normal for granted

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A Forest Hills Central High journalism student shares her thoughts. We invite students and staff in our coverage area to submit theirs to SNN@Kentisd.org...

School bus delivers so much more than meals during school closure

School 2.0 Brett Atwood

Kenowa Hills is one of many districts who are making sure their students receive the daily meals that they normally rely on their schools to provide...

Districts face hard choices in timing of ballot requests

School 2.0 Charles Honey

District leaders have had to weigh whether to go ahead as scheduled, or postpone them because of the coronavirus health crisis...

Education, at home, in the time of COVID-19

School 2.0 Bridie Bereza

With kids home from school and the future unclear, a family game of Monopoly, video chats with loved ones and bike riding help calm the anxiety...

GRCC offering food pick up

School 2.0 Erin Albanese

Grand Rapids Community College students challenged with food insecurity during the coronavirus crisis can pick up bags of food through drive-by pickups during the next three weeks...

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