Morgan Jarema

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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.

Can she convince you to take a pie in the face?

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This elementary school volunteer and PTC president had the confidence of the community behind her to take on another commitment to the district: school board member.

‘Other kids look up to him’

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A teacher at Highlands Middle calls this sixth-grader “very well respected” by other students and staff members.

Knowledge of Native American territories in 3D

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Highlands Middle fifth-graders worked in groups to assemble dioramas of what life was like in some Native American territories.

‘Kindness is the answer’

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Students wrote, illustrated, proofread and published a book of their thoughts on kindness, a copy of which would be on North Oakview library shelves if it wasn’t already checked out with a long hold list.

Hinds named Northview superintendent

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Dr. Christina Hinds took over as interim superintendent in the fall after joining the district as deputy superintendent in 2022.

Obstacles to more reading time mastered

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Among the four sixth-grade classes at Highlands Middle, the combined reading time this year was a whopping 31,627 minutes, 527 hours and seven minutes, or nearly 22 days straight.

Wearable art through the ages

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Northview High students researched fashions from different eras and came up with designs inspired by those periods.

Formulaic art? Not in this Educator of the Year’s classroom

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With 25 years of experience, Northview High School art teacher Nathan Kukla has been recognized by his peers as a leader in the field. And it all started with Godzilla.

Need motivation? These career center grads are here to bring it

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Recent graduates Sabastian Black and Rylie Scudder returned to the Northview Next Career Center to speak to manufacturing lab students about how the program prepared them for work.

A DIY fossil? Now that’s colossal!

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Teacher Jamie Wilcox often offers a Friday STEM project to her third-graders who have completed their work for the week

Wading in for water-quality monitoring

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Northview High School AP Environmental Studies students gathered specimens and data from the Rogue and Grand rivers and Plaster Creek to learn more about aquatic life.

Pure Michigan, from land to air to water

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Third-graders across the district start the year learning about the official state symbols.

Observe, encourage, bond: team-building day has multiple purposes

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A day at Camp Roger for all seventh-graders helped students build bonds and teachers observe social dynamics.

Hinds named interim superintendent

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Dr. Christina Hinds says her plan to lead the district this year revolves around a single word: consistency.

Soccer-loving Swiftie values students’ wisdom

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Angie Balczak is the new principal at North Oakview Elementary. SNN gets to know the 1998 Northview High graduate in this edition of Meet Your Administrator.

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Northview — The district’s mentor program is looking for adults who are willing to meet with at least one student for 15 minutes a...

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