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Community H.S. Jazz Concert: Tuesday’s Improv Extravaganza should be a real ‘Arctic Blast’

December 17, 2018 AAPS News Editor

By Jeff Barr/weloveannarbor.com Community High School’s annual jazz concert, which will be staged Tuesday night in Ann Arbor’s Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, is far from your ordinary high school band performance. It will be more […]

A Lakewood student celebrates as she has a coding success during an Hour of Code event

Volunteers from the community help AAPS students participate in the Hour of Code

December 14, 2018 AAPS News Editor

Students across the Ann Arbor Public Schools participated in Hour of Code events last week. The global event is an opportunity to introduce students to coding and computer science and help students with prior experience advance through a variety of coding programs.

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Ann Arbor Open teacher Chad Downs wins $25,000 national Milken Educator Award

December 12, 2018 AAPS News Editor

Story, photos and video by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor It was billed as a Wednesday morning all-school assembly for the Ann Arbor Open community to meet and greet Michigan’s Interim Superintendent Sheila Alles. That’s […]

Haisley teachers’ supportive friendship models the importance of relationships for their students

December 12, 2018 AAPS News Editor

Story and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor When Dante Watson became principal of Haisley Elementary this school year, he noticed one thing fairly quickly: Second grade teachers Paula Everett and Alicia Rey-Murrell have […]

Profile: Before heading to Holy Cross, Pioneer’s Lowder has a few things to cross off his to-do list

December 11, 2018 AAPS News Editor

By Terry Jacoby/weloveAnnArbor.com Pioneer’s Drew Lowder entered Saturday’s game with Grosse Pointe North a few minutes into the first quarter and, like a hurricane, blew the entire direction of the game in a […]

Lawton students applaud longtime volunteer on her 90th birthday

December 7, 2018 AAPS News Editor

Fourth grade teacher Jinx Cooke, left, applauds as kindergarten teacher Jenny Szalay, right, escorts Ginny Hartog through Lawton Elementary for an all-school clap-out celebrating her 90th birthday. Hartog volunteers in Cooke’s and Szaley’s classrooms every week. Story, photos […]

Community H.S. Jazz Concert: Tuesday’s Improv Extravaganza should be a real ‘Arctic Blast’

Volunteers from the community help AAPS students participate in the Hour of Code

Ann Arbor Open teacher Chad Downs wins $25,000 national Milken Educator Award

Haisley teachers’ supportive friendship models the importance of relationships for their students

Profile: Before heading to Holy Cross, Pioneer’s Lowder has a few things to cross off his to-do list

Lawton students applaud longtime volunteer on her 90th birthday

Community High School’s beloved matriarch is still going strong—and loving it—after 33 years

Action-packed AAPS District STEAM Expo showcases students’ creativity, ingenuity

Bianka VonKulajta, Westerman Preschool & Family Center social worker

What a thrill! Community High Jazz combo performs for Wynton Marsalis