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.

Sixth-graders fish for ways to rid lakes of invasive species

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

An October trip to Suttons Bay brought their Great Lakes ecosystem unit to life...

CTE changed his life – he wants more students to benefit

Kent City Morgan Jarema

He went to Washington D.C. to plead the case to lawmakers for more career and technical ed program funding...

It’s all about the mitten state

Northview Morgan Jarema

In their first social studies unit, third-graders research official Michigan symbols and create a poster that includes three facts...

Starfish-lizard-butterfly hybrids, straight from the imaginations of first-graders

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Rosie Haugen’s West Oakview art class spent a class period recently sculpting Dia de los Muertos Alebrije animal figures with modeling clay...

New spaces make for maximum creativity, collaboration

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

This year the industrial arts and visual art programs are in a new, state-of-the-art addition at one high school, and project-based learning rooms at another, thanks to a 2018 bond improvement project...

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Voices off, connections made

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For the 40 or so staff members of the district’s deaf and hard of hearing programs, American Sign Language ruled the day...

Sit-spots, salmon and saving lives

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On Tuesdays throughout the school year, Field School grades K-5 will be at Little Pine Island Camp, a new partnership with the district...

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A joyful noise for all

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A new program is putting a musical instrument in the hands of every district fifth-grader...

Business-minded man meets sweetheart, turns to education

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Joe Lienesch and Gerry Verwey are the new principals at Kent Career Tech Center, and at Kent Innovation High and MySchool@Kent, respectively...

Students muse on the 20th anniversary of 9/11

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The discussion was part of the high school’s History vs. Hollywood class, a semester-long look at the historical accuracy of nearly 20 films...

New building heads include a car DJ, a Pizza Hut fan & a magician

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There are three new principals in the district this year. SNN gets to know them in this edition of Meet Your Administrators...

Need they remind? Be kind

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The mural is the creation of 2021 Forest Hills Central High graduates Ayesha Jeddy, Ana Ahmed and Valerie Greenwood, all of whom attended Ada Elementary...

Online learning a mixed bag of offerings this year

All Districts Morgan Jarema

While all districts offered some form of virtual learning last year, this year the offerings are more limited, where they exist at all...

It pays to get vaccinated, two local students learn

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Two area students were scholarship winners in the MI Shot to Win Sweepstakes...

All-new classrooms and more await East Oakview students

Northview Morgan Jarema

Updates to the elementary school will be ‘a positive for the neighborhood’...

Math whiz, student surveyor, star-gazer

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This Eastern High School sophomore developed a survey this year to learn what areas her peers struggle with most. Programs to address what she found have already started...

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