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Month: December 2018

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Ann Arbor Open teacher Chad Downs wins $25,000 national Milken Educator Award

December 12, 2018 AAPS News Editor

Story, photos and video by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor It was billed as a Wednesday morning all-school assembly for the Ann Arbor Open community to meet and greet Michigan’s Interim Superintendent Sheila Alles. That’s […]

Elementary News

Haisley teachers’ supportive friendship models the importance of relationships for their students

December 12, 2018 AAPS News Editor

Story and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor When Dante Watson became principal of Haisley Elementary this school year, he noticed one thing fairly quickly:  Second grade teachers Paula Everett and Alicia Rey-Murrell have […]

Features

Profile: Before heading to Holy Cross, Pioneer’s Lowder has a few things to cross off his to-do list

December 11, 2018 AAPS News Editor

By Terry Jacoby/weloveAnnArbor.com      Pioneer’s Drew Lowder entered Saturday’s game with Grosse Pointe North a few minutes into the first quarter and, like a hurricane, blew the entire direction of the game in a […]

Community Gives Back

Lawton students applaud longtime volunteer on her 90th birthday

December 7, 2018 AAPS News Editor

  Fourth grade teacher Jinx Cooke, left, applauds as kindergarten teacher Jenny Szalay, right, escorts Ginny Hartog through Lawton Elementary for an all-school clap-out celebrating her 90th birthday. Hartog volunteers in Cooke’s and Szaley’s classrooms every week. Story, photos […]

Features

Community High School’s beloved matriarch is still going strong—and loving it—after 33 years

December 4, 2018 AAPS News Editor

  Story, photos and video by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor The matriarch of Community High School is having a good day. Her students were prepared for class and participated in a lively discussion. She […]

Elementary News

Students at 5 AAPS elementary schools rock out at lively nutrition assembly

December 3, 2018 AAPS News Editor

 The Jump with Jill Nutrition Assembly—dubbed “the world’s only rock and roll nutrition show”—was held a five AAPS elementary schools last week.   The assemblies—offered at Pittsfield, A2 STEAM, Dicken, King, and Haisley—came at no cost to the […]

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