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Print article All Lake Otis Elementary School students have moved to online classes after the Anchorage School District confirmed “several cases of COVID-19 at the school involving multiple students and staff” last week, according to the district. This is the first instance of an entire school moving completely online for 10 days, said Anchorage School District spokeswoman Lisa Miller. A number of individual classrooms in the district have moved online after the reopening, but not whole schools. Since returning to in-person classes, “there has been roughly 2-5 classes transitioned to online learning at any given time due to COVID-19,” Miller said in an email.
226 infected in new coronavirus outbreaks at 48 schools, says Michigan’s March 8 school outbreak report
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
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The data was collected on Thursday, March 4.
The biggest new outbreaks involves 24 students and staff at Portage Central High School and 20 students at Portage Central Elementary in Kalamazoo County.
The only new outbreak at a college is five infections at Ferris State University.
New K-12 school outbreaks also were identified in 20 counties. Below are those outbreaks listed by county:
Antrim County: Central Lake High School, staffer and student.
Bay County: Bay City Cohn Glen High School, staffer and student.
Berrien County: Berrien Springs High School, four students.
Elliston, a Horizon West resident, was Teacher of the Year at Sand Lake Elementary in 2015 and also received the Kessler Grand Bohemian Teacher of Excellence Scholarship award for excellence in teaching fine arts.
Elliston launched Kids Create Art with the belief that a child’s creativity and imagination are two of their most precious gifts. Her goal is to provide an artistic experience that allows students to grow in a safe and nurturing environment that promotes artistic freedom. That’s what Matthews loves about Kids Create Art.
“The basis behind it is that we want to encourage a lot of creativity with kids, and we want every child to know that they are an artist without feeling like they have to conform to something being right or wrong,” Matthews said. “With the way we teach art, we learn about different artists, and we show different techniques and how to do certain things. We work on a project that’s inspired by an artist, but then the kids are free to really