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Elementary News

ESL students will tell stories of challenge and triumph at family celebration

July 22, 2015 AAPS News Editor

  By Jo MathisAAPS District News Editor What’s better than writing your own rap song about a way you’ve faced a challenge and triumphed over it? Performing it for an appreciative audience, that’s what. And […]

Elementary News

Homework Club continues for Lakewood kids

July 20, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Story and photos by Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor Lakewood Elementary art teacher Peggy Leonard and media specialist Eileen Thomas hated to think that the gains made by students enrolled in the school’s twice-a-week […]

Elementary News

Little Free Library now graces reading corner of Dicken garden

June 16, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Dicken Elementary School installed a Little Free Library in a corner of Dicken’s garden, where there is now a reading garden surrounded by sunflowers. The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Little Free Library was held […]

Community Gives Back

Anthology features stories written by Huron students

June 11, 2015 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor Twenty Huron High School students are now published authors upon the release of their anthology of bedtime stories titled, “A Lantern of Fireflies: An Illustrated Treasury of Tales […]

Board of Education

Thurston Pond restoration project on Board of Education’s agenda

June 10, 2015 AAPS News Editor

“We’ve lost the bio-diversity of the pond because of this additional sediment,” says Thurston Nature Center Committee Chair Frank Commisky. […]

Community Gives Back

Bach students leave their mark on new playground mural

June 4, 2015 AAPS News Editor

  By Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor David Zinn bought his Fifth Street house across from Bach Elementary 20 years ago partly because of the playground and big field out back. And for 20 […]

Academics

Young scientists from across Washtenaw County compete at Pioneer High School

June 1, 2015 AAPS News Editor

“I think it’s more of a life-long process that they learn, hopefully we’ve instilled some love of science in them. That they’ve had a chance to discover different scientific principles and activities outside of what they’re taught in the classroom,” says WESO Board President Susan Blackburn. […]

Elementary News

Helping children become more understanding of differences is goal of annual workshop

May 28, 2015 AAPS News Editor

  By Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor By the end of this school year, many AAPS fourth graders will have a better idea of what it’s like to live with a disability, and how […]

"Exceptional" profiles

Ashley Moore, A2STEAM fifth grade teacher

May 26, 2015 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Ashley Kemp Moore grew up in Ann Arbor and attended Allen Elementary, Scarlett Middle School and Community High School. She graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a double major in […]

Elementary News

Project Lead the Way coming to more AAPS schools this fall

May 21, 2015 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor Time after time, A2STEAM at Northside parents have told Bill Van Loo they wish project-based education had been around when they were kids. While different styles of teaching […]

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