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

Statewide aquatic robotics competition tests students’ engineering skills

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

A competition Saturday on the east side of the state will give Forest Hills students a chance to show off their marine robotics skills

Oatmeal raisin philanthropy gets students cooking

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The after-school kitchen club formed in January is using proceeds from lunchtime sales of cookies to benefit kids facing cancer

Underground railroad module turns fourth-graders into historians

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

All 75 fourth-graders at the school are participating in an online social studies simulation. It is a partnership with the University of Michigan called Imagination Matters

‘I’m the appreciation chairperson’

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Parent volunteer Melissa Kelley-Carey says even the smallest amount of time is a big help, and that help doesn’t always come in the form of hours clocked

Restorative practices shifts to academics

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More and more schools are using restorative practices as a proactive way to handle behavior. At Ada Elementary, teachers have started to use them when teaching content

STEM ed through mask-making

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Some 120 seventh-graders in Whitney Goulooze’s art class at Mill Creek Middle School are being introduced to the special effects industry

Teachers Say Children Need to Play, Not Work All Day

Multi Districts Morgan Jarema

If you think kindergartners still play with glue and paper all day, think again. In fact they're not playing enough, educators say, so they've...

Sixth-graders Make Their Newbery Picks

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Book lovers and those with opinions were welcome for the middle school's second annual Mock Newbery club, which tackled many of the same books as their adult counterparts

Magical Creatures Via Design Thinking

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As his classmates glued, cut, pasted and painted around him, Ada Vista Elementary fourth-grader Marcus Benard quietly alternated different colors of permanent markers to...

All Aboard for STEAM Night

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The gymnasium at Alto Elementary filled with students and their families last week to experience the STEAM museum.

Writing Lesson Rewrite Produces Big Gains

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

Aiden Hernandez may only be in the first grade, but he's already got opinions about things. As in, "yes" to green beans and "no"...

So, What’s Your Job Like?

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema

Cold weather can sometimes be a plumber’s ally. That was one of the first things Nathan Bush and Ben Smith learned as they stomped...

Water for South Sudan, with Love from Lowell

Lowell Morgan Jarema

School children and their families in one South Sudan community will be getting clean water to drink from a newly dug well, and middle...

Trending Now: Student News Site Thrives

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

The two classrooms-turned-newsroom of the student news website, The Central Trend, are a steady buzz of activity on a winter afternoon just before the...

‘The Classroom is Why I Wake Up in the Morning’

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Eighth-grader Aaron Souter touched an iPad screen to maneuver a sphero along a stairwell floor, while classmate Ryan Reszka constructed an obstacle course of...

Planning for the Future, Starting Now

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Gwen Hackett hurried into a meeting with guidance counselor Tory Parsons and apologized for being a few minutes late. She'd just come from rehearsal...

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