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

Poet, Rapper Teaches Sixth-Graders to Let the Words Flow

Grandville Morgan Jarema

Sixth-graders at East Elementary recently got to work with an award-winning wordsmith who writes music they can relate to. Before they learned his method...

300 Area Students Get Inside Local Companies on Groundhog Shadow Day

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema

Miko Poot’s father worked with his hands, and that’s what the Wyoming High School senior imagines he’ll spend his professional life doing. But just...

District Seeks Tax Renewals, Full Headlee Funding

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

East Grand Rapids Public Schools is the only Kent County school district with a March 8 tax proposal -- a trio of them, in...

Studying Human DNA with Help from 3-D Printers

Lowell Morgan Jarema

Noah Korhorn thinks working with 3-D printers, where hours of computer calculations become a three-dimensional reality, would make for a pretty cool workday. “Seeing it come...

New Technology Helps Kindergartners with Math

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Lakeside Elementary kindergartner Charlotte Kanaan stood beside teacher Shannon Mitchell and worked through a math problem, which her classmates could see thanks to a...

History, Geography Collide with Writing, Art and Math in ‘Around the World’ Exploration

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Lilly Vydareny said doing school lessons strictly from books is “sometimes pretty boring.” So when her fifth-grade class at Lakeside Elementary started an interactive “Journey...

Fun Furniture Invites Readers into New Learning Commons

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Teacher Katie McIntosh’s kindergartners made their way into Lakeside Elementary’s recently opened Learning Commons and quickly made themselves right at home. A group of girls...

Hitting the Airwaves for Clean Water

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

A group of Forest Hills Central Middle and Northern Trails ⅚ School students (now at Northern Hills Middle) were on the air this month...

Little Hats, Big Hearts

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Brittany Rosely and Sydney Paalman liked the idea of making loom caps for newborns to raise awareness of heart problems. Besides, agreed the Forest...

Segregation, Civil Rights and a Local Neighborhood

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

It's one thing to read about the country's Civil Rights movement. It's another entirely to get a visit from three local women who came...

Earth Science Rocks!

Lowell Morgan Jarema

Earth Science teacher Burt Breuker has hit on a way to use all those good-for-next-to-nothing, stubby crayon nubs and at the same time engage...

A Capitol Idea

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Lakeside Elementary fourth-graders recently paid a visit to the state Capitol as part of the social studies curriculum on the State of Michigan. Classes...

Foundation Just Keeps on Growing

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Forest Hills Eastern High School teacher Jaclyn Hartman's science students will be able to study a real-world issue for which jobs are currently being...

There’s an App for That

Lowell Morgan Jarema

Go to any school sporting event, sit in any medical or dental office waiting room or watch families in parks, at malls, grocery stores...

Survey Says: You Like Us, You Really Like Us

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema

Newsflash: Readers really like School News Network for news about students in their school districts that other media just doesn't cover. And your No....

Lights, Camera, AP History!

Grandville Morgan Jarema

The usual pre-class chatter in room 228 at Grandville High School had an unusual edge to it on a recent Wednesday morning. That was...

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