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World’s first high school planetarium still awes AAPS students

December 22, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Story and photos by Jo Mathis AAPS District News When the Argus Planetarium was installed in the new Ann Arbor High School in 1956, it was the first high school planetarium in the country. Since […]

Features

Students plant native prairie at Thurston Nature Center

December 16, 2015 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis AAPS District News You wouldn’t know it by looking there now, but Thurston Elementary School students have helped plant a new native short-grass prairie in the northeast corner of the Thurston playground. […]

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John Birko, Ann Arbor Student Building and Industry Program teacher

December 14, 2015 AAPS News Editor

John Birko, Ann Arbor Student Building and Industry Program teacher, was recognized last month as Builder of the Year for the Builder and Remodelers Association of Greater Ann Arbor. Birko is in his thirtieth year […]

Board of Education

Rec and Ed Department continues to strive to meet needs identified over 75 years ago

December 11, 2015 AAPS News Editor

“I want to keep encouraging you all to create the plethora of programs that you offer, there’s nothing more exciting, even in our house, to get the actual magazine and thumb through it and see what’s available,” says School Board Member Simone Lightfoot. […]

Features

Cracking the code: AAPS joins worldwide Hour of Code

December 10, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Hour of Code: [slideshow_deploy id=’14150′] Story and photos by Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor Rosa Wu wishes that she could have enrolled in one of the computer programming classes which have been added to […]

Community Gives Back

AAPS teachers surprised, thrilled to receive grants to enhance education

December 8, 2015 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor Like a big red bow on a holiday gift, the Ann Arbor Public Schools Educational Foundation’s Teacher Grants enhance the AAPS experience. Thanks to the foundation’s donation of […]

Community Gives Back

Magic of Christmas program helps brighten the holidays for AAPS students

December 7, 2015 AAPS News Editor

“We make sure it’s a combination of wants and needs, because every kid has got to open something fun,” says Magic of Christmas Founder Debbie Williams-Hoak. […]

Community Gives Back

Ann Arbor PTO Thrift Shop raffle raises money for field trips

December 4, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Story and photo by Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor Odds are, you are not going to win a car or cash in the Ann Arbor PTO Thrift Shop Car & Cash Raffle. But one […]

"Exceptional" profiles

Sherri Hane, Dicken Elementary third grade teacher

November 30, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Sherri Hane was recently named the 2016 Elementary Science Teacher of the Year by the Board of the Michigan Science Teachers Association. The winner was chosen for using or modeling best practices, inspiring students, demonstrating […]

Features

Clague Middle School student starts her second lunchtime recycling project

November 25, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Story and photo by Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor Katherine Hu has better things to do at recess than stand around chitchatting with her friends. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. She’d just […]

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