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Community Gives Back

Building dreams from cardboard: Grant brings safe cutting tools to AAPS elementary schools

December 9, 2025 AAPS News Editor

The ChompSaws have opened a world where cardboard becomes a medium for creative problem-solving. When Katie Kipp Dohm saw an opportunity to enhance hands-on learning across Ann Arbor’s elementary schools, she knew exactly what her […]

Community Gives Back

Mitchell Elementary community holds ‘Topping Out’ ceremony as construction of new building continues

December 3, 2025 AAPS News Editor

The tradition honors the hard work of the construction team, signifies progress, and is believed to bring good luck to the building’s future occupants. The AAPS Capital Program celebrated a milestone on Tuesday as the […]

"Exceptional" profiles

Alyson Gold, Lakewood Elementary social worker

December 2, 2025 AAPS News Editor

Lakewood Elementary school social worker Alyson Gold was born and raised in Dearborn Heights. She earned both her undergraduate degree and Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan. Before joining AAPS, Gold worked […]

Elementary News

Video: Wines Elementary kinders visit Domino’s Farms’ Petting Farm

December 1, 2025 AAPS News Editor

Wines kinders visit Domino’s Farms’ Petting Farm; field trip ties to an Arts & Letters curriculum module Video and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Wines Elementary kindergarteners had an amazing time at Domino’s Farms […]

Elementary News

Geologist Naomi Levin visits Eberwhite’s 5th graders for Hands-On limestone exploration

November 21, 2025 AAPS News Editor

The event tied into Module Two of the new Arts & Letters curriculum, which centers on observing, analyzing, and interpreting the natural world. Eberwhite Elementary School’s fifth graders had an exciting real-world science experience today […]

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Sheril Bulley-Simpson, A2 Open 3rd/4th grade teacher

November 20, 2025 AAPS News Editor

Sheril Bulley-Simpson, an A2 Open 3rd/4th-grade teacher, was born and raised in Detroit and is a proud graduate of Cass Technical High School. Teaching is her passion. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan […]

Academics

Hearts, hands, and higher learning: Pattengill 4th graders get up close with science

November 19, 2025 AAPS News Editor

Students experience a memorable lesson that again brings the new Arts & Letters curriculum to life Some eager Pattengill fourth-graders got in line recently to see something they’d only seen in textbooks, if at all: […]

Elementary News

Video: Abbot principal makes good on his promise after successful run-a-thon

November 13, 2025 AAPS News Editor

Whipped cream pie was the dessert of the day Abbot students exceeded the $30,000 goal at the annual PTO run-a-thon, so Principal Stephan Hogan made good on his promise. Thanks to the run-a-thon sponsors, parents, […]

"Exceptional" profiles

Alicia Rey-Murrell, Haisley Elementary second grade teacher

November 10, 2025 AAPS News Editor

Alicia Rey-Murrell was born in Ann Arbor to Cuban exiles and grew up surrounded by a large, loving family. She says her everyday life was enriched by the presence of her grandparents, aunts, and parents, […]

"Exceptional" profiles

Emily Wark, Abbot Elementary Building Literacy Coach

November 3, 2025 AAPS News Editor

Emily Wark is a proud Canadian-American who spent her early childhood in Toronto, Ontario, before moving to the Philadelphia area during elementary school. Inspired by her own teachers as a student, she went on to […]

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