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

Discovering bugs by tying flies

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Northview’s coordinator of outdoor experiences, a fly-fishing aficionado, used the sport to teach elementary students about macroinvertebrates and making their own flies...

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Pen pals build bonds during remote learning

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

How does a teacher create get-to-know-you opportunities for her new class of third-grade distance learners?

Online poetry, multimedia course encourages mental well-being for middle schoolers

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A Grand Rapids nonprofit has made online writing and mental health materials available free of charge. At least one local middle-school teacher says the series is powerful and helps build community among classmates...

Letters to a tribal cousin show understanding of indigenous peoples

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Teacher Brett Scheidel has assigned the activity for at least a decade...

Art with a fishy surprise

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An art project demonstrates that what you see at first isn’t necessarily the whole picture...

Filmmaker, engineer, future rocket-builder: it’s all about creativity

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Xiangyu Chen says his twin passions -- filmmaking and all things science, technology, engineering and math-related -- draw upon similar principles...

Foundation grants $28,285 in fall funding requests

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Virtual phys ed and art experiences, materials to improve classroom focus and books on social issues aimed at middle-schoolers are among the grants approved this fall...

Entrepreneur, philanthropist, third-grader

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This student leader wants everyone to be included...

Save more money, buy more shoes, do more good

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

STEM Academy students used Consumers Energy’s new 3D mapping software to take virtual tours of a facility, then crunched the numbers to come up with energy- and money-saving solutions...

Short stories, tall tales

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

A collection of short stories by Mark Pullen’s fourth-graders at Lakeside Elementary shows what they have learned in their realistic fiction writing unit...

This teacher wants her students to be world citizens

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Audrey McKenzie practices what she teaches in celebrating diversity...

Bringing ‘positive intent’ to work every day

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Heather McKinney-Rewa is the new East Grand Rapids Middle School assistant principal. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet the Principal...

Building closed, great teaching & learning go on

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

This middle school moved from in-person to remote learning temporarily. SNN got perspective from inside the building while students learned from home...

Freshmen create voter guide aimed at first-time voters

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Civics teacher Jeff Manders hopes to spark students’ interest in becoming engaged in the political process...

Fifth-graders find beauty in science by dissecting marigolds

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

One teacher used readily available nature just outside school to introduce this year’s science unit, as well as flowers from home to study the parts of plants...

High school career center shifts to project-based learning focus

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No more usual, scheduled six-hour school day. Gone are letter grades; instead, concrete standards are detailed on a hybrid transcript...

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