“I always tell the kids: I am more interested in your process than I am in the answer that you get.”
AAPS Updates
- Meemic Insurance supports AAPS teachers with book, conference grants and more
- Dr. Swift completes Listen and Learn report out, shares new initiatives coming to AAPS
- Mobile Dentists Provide Cleaning, Dental Health Lessons at Preschool and Family Center
- Burns Park fourth graders send cozy Valentines to Cancer Center patients
- AAPS Celebrates NAAPID
Pattengill Elementary School
Learn about safety and security improvements that were paid for by the sinking fund.
Over 1,300 Ann Arbor Public Schools third-sixth graders learned how to deal with bullying from U-M student athletes.
This year, Bach, Burns Park and Pattengill elementary schools, along with Clague Middle and Skyline High School, are welcoming new principals. Learn about them here!
As you go up the stairs to see the exhibit, what you’ll likely notice first is a huge, 10-foot tall tree.The decoupaged tree is a three-school project, showing art from Bryant Elementary second graders, King Elementary fourth graders, and Pattengill fourth graders.
Dozens of young kids could be seen sprinting over tires, jumping over walls and crawling under nets in a challenging half-mile obstacle course at Scarlett Middle School’s field one summer morning. And they were having the time of their lives.
The Ann Arbor Public Schools is pleased to announce the hiring of Mr. Ché A. Carter as Principal of Clague Middle School beginning in the fall 2013-2014 school year.
PTO Thrift Shop representatives smile May 30 after getting their checks. The reps will deliver the checks to their school PTOs. By Tara Cavanaugh Three times a year, the PTO Thrift Shop distributes checks that go directly to the Ann Arbor Public Schools PTOs. The …
A group of students learns just how much sugar is in soda and health beverages thanks to a Power Monday session at Pattengill Elementary. By Tara Cavanaugh Mondays at Pattengill Elementary are about potential. That’s because the school’s Power Monday program provides students opportunities to …
The Ann Arbor PTO Thrift Shop is located at 2280 S. Industrial Highway. The shop sells furniture, clothing, books, home goods, electronics, craft supplies and more. By Tara Cavanaugh The Ann Arbor PTO Thrift Shop’s mission is to support the schools. And three times each …
Judge Tim Connors visits Jill Castillo’s sixth grade advisory for Career Awareness Day at Forsythe. By Tara Cavanaugh As he stood in Mrs. Jill Castillo’s sixth grade classroom, Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Tim Connors looked stately, his long black robes brushing the floor. “Some …
The students were especially creative with their costumes this year. One kid even carried his own head in a jar!
Basketball camp photo supplied by Rec&Ed. By Tara Cavanaugh Ann Arbor Public Schools’ Community Education and Recreation Department is the grateful recipient of a $100,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Community Health. The grant is awarded as part of MCDH’s Physical Activity and Healthy …
By Tara Cavanaugh This week a group of Pattengill fifth graders sold t-shirts during lunchtime to help raise money for the American Cancer Society. But this wasn’t a traditional fundraiser: the fifth graders came up with the sale themselves, and they even made the t-shirts. …
The Board of Education voted to open 170 seats for Schools of Choice at its March 7 meeting. This means that more students have the option to request to attend a new district school. In the previous two years of Schools of Choice, the district opened …