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"Exceptional" profiles

Deborah Mullice, Physical Education Teacher and Athletic Director at Clague Middle School

November 2, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Deborah Mullice has worked at AAPS for 30 years—the entire time at Clague Middle School. Her duties there are multi-fold, and for the past 14 years have included physical education teacher, athletic director, lead teacher, […]

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Caroline Fitzgerald, Scarlett Middle School band teacher

October 18, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Caroline Fitzgerald grew up in Pearl City, Hawaii and started learning the saxophone in seventh grade. Her band teacher was the most influential teacher in her life and the reason she decided to pursue music education. […]

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His classroom is the great outdoors

October 14, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Story and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News It’s a sunny fall day at the Fox Preserve gravel pit, and the second graders are super excited about all the rocks they’re collecting in their plastic […]

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Meredith Giltner, Skyline High School art teacher

October 10, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Meredith Giltner grew up in Milford and now lives in Dexter with her husband of 24 years, her 8-year-old son, three cats, 13 fish and a snail. This is her seventh year teaching art, and […]

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Sean Slay, Carpenter Elementary fifth grade teacher

October 4, 2016 AAPS News Editor

    Sean Slay is an Ann Arbor native who attended Haisley Elementary School, Forsythe Middle School and Pioneer High School. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 1996, and earned his master’s degree in […]

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Andy Meyer, Abbot Elementary first grade teacher

September 27, 2016 AAPS News Editor

  Andy Meyer grew up with three brothers in the Kalamazoo area, the son of a small business owner and a nurse. His love for sports started early. Meyer started playing hockey when he was […]

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Collin Ganio, Skyline High School Latin teacher

September 21, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Collin Ganio was born in 1970 and grew up in Walnut Creek, California. His childhood goal was to become a starship captain by his 30th birthday, but at the age of seven, he began to […]

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Greta Barfield, Huron High School Special Education teacher

May 2, 2016 AAPS News Editor

  Greta Barfield  spent most of her school years in Muncie, Indiana, where she graduated from Burris Laboratory School, which is part of Ball State University’s Teacher College. She also earned her bachelors degree in […]

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Tracy Anderson, Community High School English teacher

April 25, 2016 AAPS News Editor

  Tracy Anderson was walking out of the Ann Arbor District Library in 2000, balancing a stack of books for her thesis research, when she stopped by the job posting board and saw the opening […]

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Bethany Tabaka, Carpenter Elementary third grade teacher

March 31, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Bethany Tabaka attended Chelsea Public schools through high school, then majored in both elementary education and Spanish at Western Michigan University. She learned to speak Spanish fluently by participating in a study abroad course in […]

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