Teachers and administrators at the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District work consistently and diligently to develop innovative learning experiences that promote student achievement. Recently, the district’s fifth- and sixth-graders – housed in the LBI Grade School in Ship Bottom – were excited to collaborate and create while working on a few special STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) projects that the staff devised.

As a district press release noted, science teacher Cathy McBride took fifth-grade students on a virtual field trip that…