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

This Former Park Ranger Has Sung Competitively in Four Languages

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

School: Wealthy Elementary What and where was your previous job? Special education teacher at Wealthy Elementary Degrees: Bachelor’s degree in special education from Michigan State University,...

Providing Food, Clothing for a ‘Very Giving Community’

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

The already humid atmosphere inside former classroom No. 8 in Greenridge Elementary School got even stuffier recently as families streamed into the cramped but...

Curbside Literacy, Scout Style

Grandville Morgan Jarema

Spencer Phillips kicked around a handful of ideas for a project that would earn him the rank of Eagle Scout. "I wanted to do something...

Hooked on Fly-Fishing

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Abby Bell remembers her first fish: a rainbow trout she caught (and released) out of a pond in Montana, while staying with family at...

From Fourth-graders to Tables

Lowell Morgan Jarema

Joseph Hutchinson and Jacob Patrick both like bell peppers, but beyond that the conversation becomes contentious. "They're not very good on pizza," Jacob insisted. "They are...

Honing the Ruchir Technique

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Ruchir Gupta became enamored at a young age of tinkering with all things mechanical: elementary school Science Olympiad, building bottle rockets and a mousetrap-powered...

‘Line Up Straight, Try the Corndogs, Don’t Hurt People’s Feelings’

Grandville Morgan Jarema

Karie Uhl knows kindergarten is a time of big transition for children. Uhl, who just finished her fifth year teaching kindergarten at South Elementary...

From ‘Kings of the School to Measly Peasants’

Lowell Morgan Jarema

If you're headed to middle school in the fall and worried about the whole "small fish in a big pond" thing, William Compton says...

Students Map Biodiversity, Ecology of Natural Area

Lowell Morgan Jarema

"His name is Calvin, and he's huge." That's pretty much all freshman Hannah Foster had to say about the crawfish she netted while wading in...

Paddling, Early Settler Style

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

It's almost certain that neither the Native Americans nor the early settlers sat on the banks of the Grand River some 200 years ago...

Around the World in Two Hours

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Musa Hammad admitted he didn't make the baba ghanoush he was passing out samples of smeared on pita bread, but the sixth-grader said he...

Plant, Wait, Pollinate

Grandville Morgan Jarema

It's a small garden with the potential for enormous impact. And it's all organic, so that means worms and manure. But don't worry, says...

All Things Salmon-y, Liberation Day

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

They grow up so fast. We introduced you earlier this year to Pine Ridge Elementary fourth-graders involved in a year-long Michigan Department of Natural Resources...

Pressure Builds for SkillsUSA Nationals

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

In a few weeks, Dominic Krupp will be part of a two-person team tasked with coming up with an idea for a short video,...

Seventh-graders Can’t Be Out-clevered

Lowell Morgan Jarema

Some 300 seventh-graders became authenticity sleuths recently during a science class experiment dubbed “Cracking the Case of the Clever Craftsman.” Students were presented with a...

MiCareerQuest II Draws 9,000 Students to Explore In-Demand Jobs

All Districts Morgan Jarema

Jaheem Aubrey punched the screen of a tablet computer and cheered as his manipulations made a plastic ball advance along an obstacle course on...

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