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Huron, Pioneer and Skyline designated as 2016 MI HEARTSafe schools

October 20, 2016 AAPS News Editor

The Michigan Departments of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), and Education (MDE); American Heart Association (AHA); Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA); and Michigan Alliance for Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death of the Young (MAP-SCDY) […]

District’s new data assessment system is a hit with teachers

October 19, 2016 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Ann Arbor Public Schools has implemented a new data assessment system that allows teachers to quickly determine students’ progress in class. Illuminate is an assessment system that warehouses data and […]

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. […]

Huron seniors looking forward to homecoming dance

October 14, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Story, photo and video by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News The date to the dance started last spring when Huron High School basketball player Lawrence Rowley took part in Project Unify, a partnership program between […]

In a landslide, Pioneer High School student with Down Syndrome is voted homecoming king

October 14, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Story, photos and video by Jo MathisAAPS District News Editor It wasn’t even close. When it was time to pick the king of the Pioneer High School Homecoming Dance 2016, the students overwhelmingly chose Donald […]

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 […]

Exhibit at The Museum on Main Street features work of Ann Arbor STEAM @Northside students

October 10, 2016 AAPS News Editor

“As Museum Curators, how can we learn about, preserve and present the history of an Ann Arbor Community Helper?” This was the guiding question the 2016 second grade class of Ann Arbor STEAM (Science, Technology, […]

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 […]

A colorful play structure including slides

2015 Bond Committees to make recommendations soon

October 7, 2016 AAPS News Editor

“This whole body of work has one focus and that is to focus on the student experience while they are in our schools,” says Superintendent Jeanice Swift.

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Reactions to one of Ann Arbor Public Schools first lighthouse classrooms

October 7, 2016 AAPS News Editor

“I think it’s awesome. It’s really comfortable to read on, it’s not distracting. The new desks kind of roll, which you can lock in, and they’re easy to work at.” Haisley 5th grader Ayden shares his thoughts on the new furniture in his classroom.

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