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Purple Power: Westerman Preschool celebrates new mascot, school color, motto

December 20, 2019 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor On Panda Power Pajama Day, the Westerman Preschool & Family Center celebrated its new school color, mascot and motto: Together we grow.” Take a 20-second look at some of […]

Elementary News

Ann Arbor Open students transform classrooms; prepare for annual Multicultural Fair tonight

December 19, 2019 AAPS News Editor

Video and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor It’s Ann Arbor Open’s biggest event of the year. The Multicultural Fair takes place tonight, inviting visitors to travel around the world without leaving the building. […]

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Elementary News

30 seconds with … Thurston kinders enjoying music class

December 18, 2019 AAPS News Editor

Video by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor These Thurston kindergarteners had a great time in Sarah Vaujin’s music class Monday. Take a 30-second peak:    

Three Pattengill students, Principal Robin Kocher, teacher Bernadette Swanson, and Andy Thomas
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2019 Karen Thomas Memorial Fund grants presented to teachers in 5 schools

December 17, 2019 AAPS News Editor

“These are teacher initiated grants that meet the needs of the particular classroom,” says Andy Thomas. […]

Elementary News

30 seconds with: Sarah Corcoran’s morning meeting with her Thurston kindergarteners

December 17, 2019 AAPS News Editor

Video by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Morning meetings are a chance for students to share a bit of what’s happening in their lives as well as consider such things as how they might perform […]

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"Exceptional" profiles

Becca Robinson, Bach Elementary third/fourth grade teacher

December 13, 2019 AAPS News Editor

  By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Becca Robinson teaches a third/fourth combination class at Bach Elementary School.  She grew up in Huntington Woods, a small city near the Detroit Zoo. An only child, she […]

Elementary News

30 seconds with … a Bach kindergarten teacher who knows how to make it all better

December 10, 2019 AAPS News Editor

Video by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor It was a tender, ordinary moment captured by chance—one of those teacher-student interactions that occur countless times throughout a school day. When Zoey suddenly began to cry, Bach […]

Elementary News

30 seconds with … Pittsfield 5th grade orchestra and band students

December 6, 2019 AAPS News Editor

Video by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Pittsfield Elementary fifth graders have only been playing music together for a few months, but it’s clear they’re off to a great start. “The fifth grade orchestra students […]

Elementary News

Oooze and ahhhs: Allen principal gets slimed when Fun Run meets goal

November 26, 2019 AAPS News Editor

Video, story and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Allen Principal Charles Chalfant made sure he didn’t wear his best suit to work the day he fulfilled a promise to his students: If the […]

"Exceptional" profiles

Sarah Lindsay, Eberwhite first grade teacher

November 21, 2019 AAPS News Editor

Sarah Lindsay is right at home teaching at Eberwhite Elementary.  In fact, it’s where she attended elementary school as a child and where her own father, Dave LaMoreaux, went to elementary school when he was […]

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