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"Exceptional" profiles

Jessica Fleming, Clague Middle School social studies teacher

October 22, 2019 AAPS News Editor

  By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Jessica Fleming was born in Silver Springs, Maryland and lived in metro Washington, D.C. until she was 14. New jobs brought her family to the Ann Arbor area […]

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Katie Kipp Dohm,  PLTW lead teacher, Dicken Elementary 

October 15, 2019 AAPS News Editor

Katie Kipp Dohm grew up in Bloomfield Hills with her parents, Bob and Shirlee, and older brother, Chris. While in first grade at Pine Lake Elementary (which has since been torn down), she fell in […]

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Julie Arbour, King Elementary physical education teacher

October 9, 2019 AAPS News Editor

    By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Julie Arbour has taught physical education at King Elementary School since 1981. She grew up in Tecumseh, the only girl in a family of three boys. She […]

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Kristen Smith, Lawton Elementary Building Literacy Expert

October 1, 2019 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Kristen Smith grew up in Alma, Michigan and attended Alma High School.  She then moved to Ann Arbor to attend the University of Michigan and earned her bachelor’s degree […]

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Lynn Boland, Huron High School health science teacher

September 24, 2019 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Lynn Boland was a nurse at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital for 15 years before returning to Huron High School in 2008 to lead the Health Sciences Program. The program […]

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Ashley Campbell, Bryant Elementary young fives teacher

September 17, 2019 AAPS News Editor

  By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Ashley Campbell grew up in Pontiac and graduated from Pontiac Central High School. She then  set off to earn a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Ferris State […]

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Nishi Crook, Burns Park fourth grade teacher

June 7, 2019 AAPS News Editor

  By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Nishi Anjali Crook graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Michigan University in 2012 with a triple minor in mathematics, reading, and integrated sciences. After student teaching with cooperating […]

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Cathy Glei, Eberwhite kindergarten teacher

May 30, 2019 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Catherine Glei was born outside Chicago, the oldest of three children born to an inventor/scientist father and a mother who was also a nurse. She attended elementary, middle school […]

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Angela Warr, Exceptional School Social Worker

May 23, 2019 AAPS News Editor

  By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor AAPS School Social Work Consultant Angela Warr was recently named the Michigan Association of School Social Workers’ School Social Worker of the Year for Region A.  She was nominated […]

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Vanessa D’Souza, Burns Park second grade teacher

May 16, 2019 AAPS News Editor

  By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Vanessa D’Souza, a first-year teacher at Burns Park Elementary, was raised in Ann Arbor by her mother, older brother, and grandmother.  Because her mother worked two jobs, D’Souza’s grandmother […]

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