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

First-class virtual travelers explore holidays around the world

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Cultural traditions and vocabulary, plus simulated airplane travel was all part of learning about other countries...

Homemade toys sale benefits endangered animals

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

As an added, cross-curricular twist, each toy was given a materials budget of 10 virtual dollars, and art supplies and equipment could be purchased or rented...

Pollinator prairie a districtwide effort

Lowell Morgan Jarema

The aim of the project is to boost habitat for birds and wildlife, keep invasive species from spreading and improve soil health...

WMCAT arts residency trains novice shutterbugs

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The program is part of Future Focused Fridays, a new effort this school year to give all East Campus students real-world career exposure every week...

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To Squirrel Hill, with love

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A piece at the holiday concert will honor the members of the Jewish community of Squirrel Hill who were killed in a shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh...

Superintendent resignation on hold

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Northview Superintendent M. Scott Korpak will step down at the end of the school year.

From the Great Plains to Eastern Woodlands, students delve into Native American culture

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

The fifth grade social studies curriculum includes five weeks of study of Native American history and culture. SNN recently spent time in two classrooms as students worked...

Students work out by whacking away with drumsticks

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This is the first year of the cardio drumming unit at West Oakview Elementary, made possible through a grant from the Northview Education Foundation...

Reading is elementary for these word detectives

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For the first full school year, students across the district are using the Units of Study for Teaching Reading, a curriculum developed by author and educator Lucy Calkins...

More to film than meets the eye

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The International Baccalaureate filmmaking class also includes contextual, cultural and historical analysis...

Holiday parade cheer, assembled by Unity High

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The gesture of holiday workshop-ery marks the first year the alternative school has been sending a student representative to monthly meetings of the Chamber of Commerce...

Students share research with college undergrads, faculty and scientists

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The trio of seniors in science teacher Heather DeJonge’s biology research class were at the Van Andel Research Institute recently along with nearly 200 undergraduate presenters, plus scientists, university faculty, graduate program recruiters and researchers...

15 minutes, once a week can make a big difference

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Last school year ended with more than 220 students in grades 5-12 assigned a mentor. Interested parents fill out a permission slip, and the district takes it from there...

No place like home, but where’s your ideal?

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Lakeside Elementary second-graders know where they’d most like to live. They not only can picture it in their minds, they wrote about it and made paper dioramas too...

Students drink deeply of cultures while making cups with masks

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Math, history and art come together in creative ways as sixth-graders make drinking vessels inspired by cultural masks...

Kindergartners use notebooks to share reading with their families

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Kindergarten teacher Robin Murphy says students she has had in past years prepare their younger siblings for her class by reading their shared notebooks at home...

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