Morgan Jarema

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Morgan Jarema is a copy editor and reporter. She is a Grand Rapids native and a proud graduate of Grand Rapids Public Schools, including Brookside and West Leonard elementary schools, 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.

Lightbulb lunches garner student voice

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Every month, teachers recommend a different group of students from each grade for lunch with the principal. Students offer suggestions and ideas about their school...

Complicated but fun: learning about energy with eggs, balloons, marbles and more

Lowell Morgan Jarema

The project is part of the fourth-grade physical science unit on energy and waves using Next Generation Science Standards...

Long-time counselor David Witucki remembered for his ‘heart for kids’

Northview Morgan Jarema

Educator motivated by doing the right thing for people remembered with a scholarship to seniors following in his footsteps...

Well-read and fed, but not sold in stores

Lowell Morgan Jarema

Middle school English teacher Anne Hoekstra tried something new for independent reading projects this year: Students created a cereal based on the novels they read...

Letters to policy-makers make cases for education reform

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Students in Anne LaGrand’s AP language and composition class spent weeks researching education and came up with what they think are the top priorities...

Code talkers transmit using their new/old language of Morse code; especially useful in the lunchroom

Northview Morgan Jarema

Fourth graders learn Morse code as an intro to the science of binary communication, giving them a ‘secret language’ as part of Michigan’s Next Generation Science Standards...

Ballot proposal to ask for funds to address infrastructure needs, expected growth

Lowell Morgan Jarema

Voters will be asked on May 7 to consider a $52.1 million bond request that would address infrastructure upgrades and improvements and extend the existing 7-mill levy for another seven years. No millage increase is expected...

Ye olde history unit comes to life

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Fifth-graders at Lakeside Elementary finally got their reward as part of the culmination of their eight-week social studies unit studying the 13 U.S. colonies...

Their writing is tops with readers, judges

Caledonia Morgan Jarema

A pair of students from two West Michigan public schools took high honors in the seventh annual Write Michigan short story contest, hosted by Kent District Library and Schuler Books & Music...

Why did the pencil cross the road? Wait for it …

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

The pint-sized comedians got tips from comedian Allen Trieu, then tried out their own funny bone-tickling skills on one another...

Reworked leadership team keeps Korpak at helm by delegating duties

Northview Morgan Jarema

The near-resignation of district Superintendent M. Scott Korpak has prompted a leadership restructure that not only will keep him in the position he has held for six years, but could serve as a model to other districts...

Urban & suburban students find common interests in 15-year partnership

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

The recent meet-and-greet was the 15th annual gathering of students from the two elementary schools...

Sensory path, movement supports help students get focused, calm

Lowell Morgan Jarema

The tools came from a $370 grant from the Lowell Education Foundation to Vanessa Hogarth, at-risk social worker...

Up above the world so high, like an RV in the sky

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

The unit is part of Next Generation Science Standards, which charge students to practice an integrated understanding of core ideas in science and engineering...

Second-graders write what they know

Northview Morgan Jarema

Turns out, by second grade a person knows a lot about some things. So much that it could fill a book, even...

Interim principal hopes you have the time of your life

Meet Your Administrators Morgan Jarema

Tony Quinn is the new interim principal at West Oakview Elementary School. SNN gets to know him in this edition of Meet the Principal...

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