The Skyline Learning Center is a student-led, peer tutoring center that has become a vital resource across the school, serving students at every level. Last year, the center expanded its tutoring subjects to include math alongside all other subjects, and the results have been impressive. This school year alone, over 500 students have walked into the center, tutors work with their peers in 18 different classes each week, and nearly 50 submissions have come through the online writing lab.

The AAPS Capital Program celebrated a milestone on Tuesday as the highest beam was placed on the under-construction Mitchell Elementary. This time-honored Topping Out Ceremony celebrates the work of our construction team, marks significant progress, and is believed to bring good luck to Mitchell Elementary and all its future students and staff.

History is a practice in empathy. We try to place ourselves in the shoes of people from the past in order to better understand our shared human experience in the present. In my IB SL History class, we recreate pieces of the training that nonviolent Civil Rights student activists went through in order to explore tactics for resisting bigotry and oppression. In Humanities, we recreate an Enlightenment-era coffee house (we call it “Descarte’s Drip”) in order to immerse ourselves in a real-world “Internet in the Age of Reason.”

Eberwhite Elementary School’s fifth graders had an exciting real-world science experience today when geologist and University of Michigan Professor Naomi Levin visited Trish Hayes’s and Erin Wright’s classrooms. Her visit brought the students’ Module Two Arts & Letters studies to life by connecting their learning to the geology of their own local environment.

We took to the halls of Ann Arbor Public Schools to ask students a few questions about Thanksgiving. In this four-minute video, hear from our diverse student body as they share who they’d invite to their dream holiday dinner (spoiler: Mr. Beast and Taylor Swift are top picks), what they love most about the day, and how they’d make it even better.

Thanks to all our students who participated. And Happy Thanksgiving from the AAPS community!