Education Briefs: Hope Summer Repertory Theatre gets new education director
Sentinel Staff
HOLLAND Hope Summer Repertory Theatre is welcoming a new member to its leadership team this summer. Laura Matthews will join as director of education.
Matthews has been a teaching artist, actor and director in Chicago since 2012, working with theaters and schools such as Porchlight Music Theatre, Emerald City Theatre, Elmhurst College, Roosevelt University and American Theatre Company.
During the academic year, Laura is the visiting professor of theatre at Blackburn College. She holds an MFA in pedagogy and performance from Virginia Commonwealth University and bachelor’s degree in musical theatre and interdisciplinary communication studies from Elmhurst college. She is currently training and studying to be an intimacy choreographer.
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Life after COVID: What will school look like post-pandemic?
Local education leaders discuss what long-term affects COVID-19 could have on K-12 education.
Mitchell Boatman, The Holland Sentinel
Published
11:10 am UTC Apr. 8, 2021
The past year of education has been a constant wave of change, adjustments and uncertainty. Students were thrust into remote learning to close the 2019-20 school year due to COVID-19, before having to decide whether or not to return for the 2020-21 school year.
Schools have had to ramp up sanitization efforts in classrooms and buses, provide additional technology for students and find new ways to keep them connected during periods of remote learning.
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West Ottawa High School added to outbreak report for third time
PARK TWP. For the third time this school year, West Ottawa High School has been added to Michigan’s School-Related Outbreak Report.
The Monday, March 15, update included 58 new COVID-19 outbreaks in Michigan schools. West Ottawa High School had an outbreak of two related cases the minimum to be considered an outbreak and was the only Ottawa County school added.
It’s the third time this year WOHS has had an outbreak after appearing in the Nov. 9 and Jan. 25 updates as well.
Monday marks the ninth time in 11 weeks since school resumed Jan. 4 that an area school has been included in the outbreak report. Zeeland’s New Groningen Elementary was added with four linked cases last week, which grew to eight this week according to the state report.