EdTech Focus On K-12 Magazine: K–12 Students Learn Broadcasting Skills With Classroom Tech
EdTech Focus On K-12 Magazine: K–12 Students Learn Broadcasting Skills With Classroom Tech
MISD Communications
Mercer Island, July 15, 2026 – EdTech Focus On K-12 Magazine published a story today on schools around the country embracing new media technology which gives students career ready recording and editing skills and included KMIH 88.9 The Bridge broadcast media teachers Natalie Woods and Lauren Schechter and MIHS students in the story.
Read K-12 Students Learn Broadcasting Skills with Classroom Tech now.
In the photo above photographer M. Scott Brauer takes photos of MIHS students Zach Hansen (left) and Kabir Bains in a KMIH studio. One of the photos Brauer took was used in the magazine version of this EdTech story.
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