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

‘Wishtree’ inspires wishes of their own

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Fourth-graders learn to stand tall, reach deep...

Turning curiosity, creativity into a career in change

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The newly minted Maya Angelou quarter has a very local connection...

More funding means more playgroups, home visits, help for county families of young children

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It’s thanks to a new round of Early Childhood millage funding...

A writing class that’s ‘way more than that’

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Nearly 30 senior composition students spent about a month working on a proposal to improve the learning environment at their school...

Fears imagined, realized, shared and sometimes faced

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Art teacher September Buys invited her seventh- and eighth-graders to ask themselves questions famous artists ask themselves, to visualize their answers and then to create them...

Hunting for clues to crimes in nature

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Students in Central Middle School’s Natural Expressions class examined simulated crimes in nature to help them determine “whodunit” and what, if any, local conservation laws were broken...

Intro to printmaking a hit with fourth-graders

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The annual lesson is part of a unit focused on contour lines, and builds on skills introduced and practiced in earlier grades...

Local students respond to Oxford shootings: ‘This should not be normal’

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Area students share their thoughts in the wake of the latest U.S. school shooting, this time fewer than 200 miles away...

Fourth-graders try healthier snack alternatives

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Mangoes, thumbs up. Beets, not so much...

Her two No. 1 priorities: ‘keep them safe and keep them learning’

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She still gets to interact with students, and will help craft professional development for her colleagues...

Manufacturing lab offers core credits, industry certification

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Starting this school year, every student who attends Northview Next’s Career Center spends two days a week inside a portable classroom turned manufacturing lab at the back of the East Beltline campus...

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Confidence-boosting books from local authors draw crowds

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Three district authors sold, signed and read from their own books recently at Ada Vista Elementary’s Scholastic book fair...

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

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

CTE changed his life – he wants more students to benefit

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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

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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...

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