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Morgan Jarema is a copy editor and reporter. She is a Grand Rapids native and a product of Grand Rapids Public Schools, including Brookside and West Leonard elementaries, City Middle/High School and Ottawa Hills. She found her tribe in journalism in 1997 and has never wanted to do anything but write. For 15 years she was a freelance journalist for The Grand Rapids Press, covering local schools and government, religion, business, home & garden and lifestyles. She and her husband, John, think even those without kiddos should be invested in their local schools and made to feel a part of them.

High school career center shifts to project-based learning focus

Career Exploration Morgan Jarema
No more usual, scheduled six-hour school day. Gone are letter grades; instead, concrete standards are detailed on a hybrid transcript...

Two schools closed due to COVID cases

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema
Northern Hills Middle and Northern High schools closed their doors temporarily this week due to students testing positive for COVID-19...

From meeting room to classroom

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema
The district’s Board of Education is on the move this year, now that its meeting room regularly draws a much younger audience...
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Teaching from a distance: ‘they have to learn to be patient’

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema
Lana Tran, a 26-year district teacher, is in her regular classroom this year, but behind a locked door. Her 18 students are at home, their parents having chosen distance learning...

Making masks more fun

Northview Morgan Jarema
A face mask tie-dying activity teaches East Oakview developmental kindergartners teamwork and patience while also supporting a very local business...

May bond passage projects underway

Northview Morgan Jarema
Improvements come from a $36.7 million, no-mill increase bond for building and systems upgrades throughout the district, approved by voters...

Masking up for all-sports golf and beyond

Northview Morgan Jarema
Gym is a challenging class to teach during a pandemic. But teachers are finding creative ways to get heart rates up while playing by the rules...

Avid reader, Petoskey-stone hunter, lover of great outdoors

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema
Melanie Hoeksema is the new Ada Elementary principal. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet Your Principal...

Wedding singer, home renovator, intentional leader

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema
Kristen Pennington is the new Knapp Forest Elementary principal. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet Your Principal...

Community input key to district’s reopening plan

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema
After initially releasing a fully in-person return-to-school plan, the district revised it twice as national, state and local health guidelines changed...

Making the best of it

Back to School 2.0 Morgan Jarema
Students, parents, teachers and others share their feelings about the start of this unprecedented school year...

Virtual career exploration a hit with students

Career Exploration Morgan Jarema
The district helped shape the online program, which is now being used to varying degrees by a handful of area schools...

‘Middle school’s gonna love you’

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema
The annual rite of passage for fifth graders was modified because of safety measures to help curb the spread of the coronavirus...

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Morgan Jarema is a copy editor and reporter. She is a Grand Rapids native and a product of Grand Rapids Public Schools, including Brookside and West Leonard elementaries, City Middle/High School and Ottawa Hills. She found her tribe in journalism in 1997 and has never wanted to do anything but write. For 15 years she was a freelance journalist for The Grand Rapids Press, covering local schools and government, religion, business, home & garden and lifestyles. She and her husband, John, think even those without kiddos should be invested in their local schools and made to feel a part of them.

‘We have a newspaper? I want to join’

Northview Morgan Jarema
When teachers were tasked to come up with and lead two-week courses in January on topics of interest to them, Melissa Moens created the Crossroads Chronicle...

‘Please just stay home’

School 2.0 Morgan Jarema
An eighth grader whose parents are both essential workers has a message about the state’s executive order...
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