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Kelly Amshey is the new principal of Rockford Virtual School. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet Your Principal...
The virtual classroom: 18 students, three screens and one busy teacher
Teaching online, from a classroom, requires multitasking and multiple screens for this fourth-grade teacher...
Oh no, I’m late! Oh wait, I’m not
Teacher Matt Banta wakes up in a panic on the first day of school, in his
video for students about starting the school year online
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...
Changes in virus trend prompts change in opening plans
The board unanimously approved teaching all students online through Sept. 11, then giving them a choice of in-person or virtual learning...
Celebrating senior singers with a final concert, virtually
Over 120 choral students in grades 9-12 will join voices in a virtual choir to celebrate the graduations of about 45 senior singers, in a prerecorded concert to be posted on the Rockford Choirs YouTube channel...
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...
A student’s poem of hope for a tough time
Tanith Frank, an eighth grader at North Rockford Middle School, sounds notes of courage and determination in her poem about getting through this challenging time, together...
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...
All in the family: two pairs of twins go to dad’s school
For Principal Dan Zang and his four children, Rockford High School is a family affair...
A virtual world, and that includes board meetings
With permission from the governor, many area public school districts are entering new territory, hosting virtual board meetings...
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...
STEM teachers step up to make masks, face shields using 3D printers
STEM teachers are doing their part to supply personal protective equipment to health care workers during the coronavirus pandemic...
Broadcast class video showcases teachers reading, singing, exercising
Students in Rockford High School’s award-winning Beyond the Rock class put together a snazzy video to highlight how teachers have reached out to students following the March 16 school closure...
Learning from a distance: ‘Keep them happy and keep them learning’
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...
Online story time, virtual PE keep students connected during shutdown
'They need to see we’re smiling and happy and that we’re OK, and that they’re going to be OK too'...
Students reflect on benefits of yoga, family game time
Students in Shelby Denhof’s English 11A class at Rockford High recently wrote op-ed essays, as part of a unit on persuasion and argumentative writing. School News Network received a number of essays and selected two of them to publish, by Kaylie Leasher and Rachel Broekstra...
Motor City Nostalgia Takes ‘Best of Show’
Rockford High School senior Kelli LeSarge made her school proud – and won a $500 scholarship for herself – with her award-winning poster at...
Roguewood Runners Raise Funds and Win Pumpkins
Editor’s note: A 5K “Pumpkin Run” recently was held at Rockford’s Roguewood Elementary to raise money for the parent-teacher organization. Roguewood fifth-graders Reagan Zainea,...
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