AAPS District News
  • Latest news
  • “Exceptional” staff profiles
  • Videos & slide shows
  • Send us your news
  • Subscribe
News Ticker
  • [ May 9, 2025 ] First graders’ creative drawings come to 3-D life through Pioneer High School art collaboration Elementary News
  • [ May 7, 2025 ] Video: Bach Elementary takes part in Walk, Roll, and Bike to School Day Elementary News
  • [ May 7, 2025 ] Logan Elementary celebrates groundbreaking for new facility Community Gives Back
  • [ May 7, 2025 ] AAPS students shine at ACS U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad in Huron Valley Region High School News
  • [ May 6, 2025 ] Slideshow: We celebrate our AAPS teachers on National Teacher Appreciation Day Latest news

Month: July 2016

Community Gives Back

Middle schoolers showcase new talents at Summer Learning Institute finale at the Neutral Zone

July 29, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Story and photos by Jo Mathis AAPS District News The Summer Learning Institute held at Scarlett Middle School this summer ended this week at the Neutral Zone, where the 65 students in grades 6-8 showed […]

Features

Rec & Ed youth tennis program earns prestigious accreditation

July 29, 2016 AAPS News Editor

“It makes tennis approachable, and it makes it fun. It’s the first time ever tennis has been sized to children and it makes them feel successful and that’s what we want kids to have fun and enjoy the sport,” says Youth Tennis Coordinator Zofii Casterline. […]

Features

Rec & Ed preschool camps keep kids engaged

July 26, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Photos and video by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News More than 150 children are participating this summer in preschool camps through Rec & Ed. “Each camp lets children, sometimes with an adult, explore new, fun activities […]

Academics

Rec and Ed summer camps STEAMing up young students’ minds

July 15, 2016 AAPS News Editor

“We don’t want students just learning by rote, we want them learning how to be thinkers, and changers, and movers and we want them thinking about how to create, and how to survive in a world that’s more technology based,” says Rec and Ed Life-Long Learning Manager Kim Smith […]

Features

AAPS alum Ashley Park will discuss her Broadway experiences at AADL Aug. 5

July 15, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Pioneer High School graduate Ashley Park, a Grammy-nominated Broadway performer who most recently  played Tuptim in the Lincoln Center’s Tony Award-winning revival of “The King and I” is returning to Ann Arbor to speak at […]

Elementary News

All about birds: Project-based learning keeps students engaged at the Summer Learning Institute

July 14, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Story, photo and video by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News By the end of the summer, about 300 AAPS students will have not only strengthened their math, science, social studies and reading skills, they’ll know a […]

Features

Adaptive Bike Camp helps students add another skill to their tool belts

July 1, 2016 AAPS News Editor

  Ann Arbor Rec & Ed partnered with LightUp (lightupnow.org) to hold an Adaptive Bike Camp this week, and most of the students happily ended up with a new skill just in time for summer […]

More on the AAPS News
  • District and school websites
  • Print archives
Contact
If you have questions, comments or news to share, please click here to email AAPS District News Editor Jo Mathis
Ann Arbor Public Schools
Click here to visit the AAPS Website
Stay connected
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • YouTube

Copyright © 2025 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes