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

Just part of the school day: impacting the world

Lowell Morgan Jarema

All three district lower-el buildings have Early Act groups, the elementary version of Interact groups at the middle and high school...

Replacing scariness with facts

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Second graders in Whitney Hoard’s Cherry Creek Elementary classroom marked World Diabetes Day by learning about the disease from a pair of their classmates, who have firsthand knowledge...

Blowing the woof off design thinking

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Fifth graders were challenged to develop works of art that could be printed on a product and sold at the Raise the Woof event on Nov. 22 to benefit Hearts of Hope dog rescue...

Staging a comic tragedy, with masks and lots of deaths

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

The class, in its third year being offered at the school, includes the study of the history of drama, improvisation, performance skills and scene creation...

They’ll huff & they’ll puff & they’ll become storytellers

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Teacher Angela Burns uses the Read It Once Again curriculum she acquired a few years ago, thanks to a grant from the Northview Education Foundation...

Grandpa for the win

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The persuasive writing assignment is part of the fifth grade opinion writing unit. Students were charged with coming up with an idea for a costume, supporting the idea with whys, and using evidence...

‘Everything is, like, so expensive’

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The exercise is part of the percentages unit. Once students chose a profession, they researched the average salary for that career, then were given a set of non-negotiable expenses...

Asia Society visits Chinese immersion students

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Meadow Brook Elementary’s Chinese immersion program is a partner with the Asia Society, an international group that supports schools with professional development and grant funding...

Education foundation grants fund orchestra pedals, D&D supplies and more

Lowell Morgan Jarema

Flexible seating in a few classrooms at two elementary buildings, high school orchestra looping pedals and middle school Dungeons & Dragons supplies are among grant requests approved recently by the Lowell Education Foundation...

‘It’s a really big deal’

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

As the district this week wraps up its annual fundraising efforts for a local nonprofit, one student shares what that support means to her...

Plant whisperer, reptile rescuer, amphibian aficionado

Meet the Future Morgan Jarema

Creative, innovative, imaginative ... Many of today's students are all that and more in a vast variety of interest areas. This series features students with exceptional and unusual gifts...

It’s official: they can read

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

For the fourth year, kindergartners were honored with a parade through Lakeside Elementary hallways and along the sidewalk in front of the school to celebrate finishing the first Units of Study for Teaching Reading...

The friendliest store at school

Lowell Morgan Jarema

There are nine special needs students working at the Spirit Store this trimester, and a handful of general education students who work alongside them...

Art & mental health: building skills, processing emotions

Lowell Morgan Jarema

At its base, the unit was about drawing facial features accurately. The deeper task: to process a mood or feeling through art...

Hooked on history and gifted in writing, senior publishes paper on PBB crisis

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Eastern High School senior Claire Parish’s National History Day article on the 1970s PBB crisis is in the current issue of Michigan History magazine...

Step by step toward the perfect shoe

Northview Morgan Jarema

Students learn how to use design thinking in their creative process through a semester-long class called Creative Problem-Solving. Open to any grade, it was introduced about five years ago...

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