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Scarlett Middle School Band to march in Saturday’s pithy EdgeFest Parade

October 27, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Story, photos and video by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News Own a kazoo? Itching to play your old high school flute? Then come join the fun in the EdgeFest Parade that will wind through and around the […]

Community invited to AAPS job fair Nov. 3 highlighting hourly positions

October 25, 2016 AAPS News Editor

Story and photos by Jo Mathis/AAPS District News If you’re looking for a part-time job—or two—AAPS invites you to a job fair on Thursday, Nov. 3 at Pioneer High School. There are two sessions: 1 to […]

Mitchell Elementary School expansion celebrated with ribbon cutting

October 24, 2016 AAPS News Editor

“We want people to know that something new and different is happening at Mitchell School, and it is special,” says Principal Kevin Karr.

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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 Mathis AAPS 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]