Wood Middle School Program Teaches Students to Love Birding

Wood Middle School Program Teaches Students to Love Birding

The fall of 2020 was a difficult time to be a middle school student in Alameda. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools were closed for in-person learning while students and teachers struggled to implement distance classes via Zoom. Social and extra-curricular activities associated with school were cancelled. Marci Nettles, a sixth-grade science teacher at Will C. Wood Middle School wanted to provide some way to re-engage kids and get them out…