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[ October 27, 2026 ] A minute in the room: Skyline High School Sculpture and Ceramics class A minute in the room
[ October 27, 2026 ] A minute in the room: Clare Pape’s Lakewood Elementary kindergarten class A minute in the room
[ October 23, 2026 ] Lisa Bares, Clague Middle School Spanish teacher "Exceptional" profiles
[ October 22, 2026 ] A minute in the room: Pattengill fifth graders take charge of learning in math rotations A minute in the room
[ October 20, 2026 ] A minute in the room: Scarlett Middle School 6th grade science A minute in the room

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 […]

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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Community High School announces 2016 parent/student orientations; application deadline

December 17, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Five parent and student orientation sessions have been announced for families interested in applying for Community High School’s freshmen slots for school year 2016-2017. The sessions, beginning January 4, 2016, will be held at Community High, […]

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 […]

After-school sports a hit with AAPS middle schoolers

November 23, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Story and photos by Jo Mathis AAPS District News Elizabeth Blackwell was the only girl on Slauson Middle School’s wrestling team last year, but now as an eighth grader, she’s been joined by two sixth […]

Student suspensions declining in Ann Arbor Public Schools

October 19, 2015 AAPS News Editor

When comparing the 2010-11 school year to 2014-15, the number of high school students that were suspended at least once is down 48 percent. At the middle school level that reduction is 75 percent, and a 74 percent reduction for elementary school students.

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Student behavior programs result in dramatic reduction in suspensions at AAPS

October 19, 2015 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis AAPS District News Editor Last year, a fight nearly broke out at Skyline High School. Instead, a member of the school’s 23-student “Sky Squad” who saw what was brewing pulled one of […]

Middle schoolers learn how to stay safe on line

October 8, 2015 AAPS News Editor

Story and photos by Jo Mathis, AAPS District News Scarlett Middle School students tonight will teach their parents a thing or two about staying safe in the digital age. During Digital Citizenship Parent Night, the students […]

Celebration for pedestrian improvements at Clague Middle School on walk to school day

October 8, 2015 AAPS News Editor

“It was just such a gap in the community and in the neighborhood, and so just having the kids being able to use it and even getting the adults off the street and on the sidewalk is just fantastic,” says Washtenaw County Public Health’s Lily Guzman.

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AAPS celebrates Constitution Day; attorneys speak in every middle school

September 17, 2015 AAPS News Editor

By Jo Mathis AAPS District News Constitution Day may be one of those under-the-radar observances for most Americans. But in the Ann Arbor Public Schools, it’s yet another reason for students to learn something relevant. […]