Morgan Jarema

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Morgan Jarema is a reporter and copy editor, covering Northview. 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. Read Morgan's full bio

Northview voters to decide no-increase school improvements proposal

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The May 5 ballot includes a $34 million request...

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Students become sign-language teachers to senior learners

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Their teacher says having students be the ones people ask for help aids in confidence, self image and job opportunities...

An elevator, an octopus & lots of swimming pools

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Students created computer models and 3D scale models of their dream homes...

Eighth grade bridges falling down

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It’s a STEM project that’s designed to fail, the teacher explained...

‘Hamilton’ cast member and EGR alum: ‘Be spectacularly you’

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Mikey Winslow also sat on the exclusive senior bench, something he said he didn’t even do while a student. You gonna tell him to move?

New program aims to get students to graduation, expand career pathways

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Last year the program had 70 students. This year, after restructuring, the program has 135 and counting...

What’s in a name? Third graders learn at museum

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All district third graders spend two days at the museum to wrap up the Michigan unit of the social studies curriculum...

Building career skills, block by block

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Sessions with Ability Employment Services aim to help students hone interview skills, get jobs and thrive in them...

New coordinator will be face of career-work experience effort

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Her role includes creating job opportunities, serving as a liaison with businesses and helping students hone skills employers want them to master...

To Australia with love

Multi Districts Morgan Jarema

Area students are spearheading fundraisers to support those affected by bushfires in Australia that have been burning for months...

Write what you know, they say. These students did it

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First graders wrote the books on what they know...

‘Life in the Middle’ is on the air in 3… 2…

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Equipment for the podcast was purchased out of the school’s budget, and a grant from the Forest Hills Public Schools Foundation helped expand the effort...

La práctica hace mejor!

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English-Spanish conversations with overseas peers are connecting a teacher and her students with her sabbatical classroom...

Crash courses offer a smorgasbord of learning

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Administrators and teachers called planning and implementing two weeks of nearly 40 classes both energizing and exhausting...

Picture-perfect graphing equations

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Graphing equations became an artistic endeavor recently for eighth graders in Stephanie Balaskas’ Challenge Algebra class at Eastern Middle...

I’ll trade you Tecumseh for James Madison

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The trading cards made by eighth graders in Lowell Middle School teacher Darla Palmer’s social studies class might not fit the traditional 'fun to collect' mold, but they do illustrate their understanding of a pivotal point in U.S. history...

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