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Skyline Anti-Bullying Club offers supportive atmosphere for students

December 11, 2017 AAPS News Editor
By Jeff Bar/wloveannarbor.com When the Skyline Anti-Bullying Club revives its once-monthly meetings in the coming days, it will be just one in many initiatives that school administrators, teachers and students have undertaken to face the […]
Elementary News

Burns Park students get a taste for keeping cool under pressure in “Chopped Junior Assembly”

December 8, 2017 AAPS News Editor
Story, photos, and video by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Twelve Burns Park Elementary students demonstrated their abilities to chop, flip, fold and maintain grace under pressure during a “Chopped Junior Assembly” Friday morning. The […]
Features

Bilingual Scarlett students present at Student Technology Showcase in Lansing

December 8, 2017 AAPS News Editor
Seven bilingual students from Scarlett Middle School this week presented at the Student Technology Showcase held in the Lansing Capitol Building. Students from Scarlett were one of 40 teams from across the state invited to […]
Photo of tweet from Project Lead the Way with a still shot of the opening of a video featuring AAPS teacher Sarah Schemanske
Elementary News

AAPS focus of national video highlighting coding opportunities in elementary schools

December 7, 2017 AAPS News Editor
“It not only taught them the basics of computer science and coding, but it also taught them to try things they had never tried before,” said PLTW Teacher Sarah Schemanske.

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"Exceptional" profiles

Amy Van Appledorn, Huron High School social studies and humanities teacher

December 7, 2017 AAPS News Editor
  By Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Amy Van Appledorn grew up in Ann Arbor, the younger sister of  Todd and Scott, and the daughter of Carl Van Appledorn, a urologist at St. Joseph Mercy […]
Elementary News

District-wide STEAM Expo gives AAPS students the chance to demonstrate wide variety of tech skills

December 6, 2017 AAPS News Editor
Photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor The AAPS district-wide STEAM Expo held at Skyline High School Tuesday night showcased PLTW K-12 including coding, robotics, 3D printing, and design thinking. Attendance was estimated at about […]
Comsa celebrates the Michigan Human Resource Professional of the Year Award with some of his co-workers
Features

Deputy Superintendent named Human Resource Professional of the Year

December 5, 2017 AAPS News Editor
“He really has always helped really everybody associated with school HR. He’s the first one out there when he sees a legal opinion or court case he’s quick to share with us,” says MASPA past president David Rilley.

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Academics

Pattengill’s ‘Tech It Out’ on Dec. 7 will feature both high- and low-tech trends

December 5, 2017 AAPS News Editor
Story and photos by Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor Pattengill Elementary’s ‘Tech it Out’ on Dec. 7 will introduce parents to the exciting technology their children are using at school, and invite students to make […]
"Exceptional" profiles

Tom Pachera, Skyline’s Design Technology & Environmental Planning (DTEP) Magnet Lead and STEAM/PLTW District Coordinator

December 1, 2017 AAPS News Editor
Profile and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Tom Pachera grew up in Dearborn Heights, attended middle school in Livonia, and graduated from Churchill High School in Livonia. He went on to earn a […]
Elementary News

Rec & Ed’s ‘epic’ Computer Coding class provides lots of ‘aha’ moments, say teen teachers

November 30, 2017 AAPS News Editor
Story and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Editor Pioneer High School junior Anne Ye didn’t know much about teaching when she and two other PHS students signed up to teach the new Rec & […]

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