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Huron student featured in inspirational skiing video

January 8, 2016 AAPS News Editor
  By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Austin Shepherd, a sophomore at Huron High School, is featured in a new youtube video skiing the mountains in Telluride, Colorado. Austin, has participated in all sorts of outdoor […]
Academics

Skyline High School students take field trips without leaving the building

January 8, 2016 AAPS News Editor
“They’ve got everything from under sea to outer space to career explorations. There are probably 10 to 15 career explorations that they can take the kids on as well as sites all over the world. It’s incredibly immersive,” says Instructional technology teacher Peter Pasque.

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Leslie Landrum, French teacher at Scarlett Middle School

January 7, 2016 AAPS News Editor
  Listen to Leslie Landrum, pictured above in her classroom, introduce herself in French: Leslie Landrum earned bachelor degrees in interior architecture and French at Michigan State University, and studied at the University of London […]
"Exceptional" profiles

Pathways Principal Tyrone Weeks: `Students know I genuinely care’

January 6, 2016 AAPS News Editor
Story and photos by Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor When Tyrone Weeks was growing up on Detroit’s historic North End, his house was unique to others in his neighborhood because his father lived there. […]
"Exceptional" profiles

Shawn Davis, Carpenter Elementary kindergarten teacher

December 30, 2015 AAPS News Editor
                     Shawn Davis is shown with a few of his students. Photos by Jo Mathis. Shawn Davis grew up in Ann Arbor and was a student […]
Features

Rec and Ed camp gives middle school students taste of television production

December 28, 2015 AAPS News Editor
“A lot of the kids are learning wonderful communications skills and how to really work as a team because that’s what directing and making TV is all about,” says CTN Training and Facility Coordinator Alysha Mae.

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Features

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.

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