This Week In the Ann Arbor Public Schools

October 4, 2010

This Week’s Good News!

  • We have special visitors this week.  The 32nd delegation of Hikone students and project directors will be visiting Ann Arbor from Monday, October 4 through Monday, October 11.
    The students will be attending school with middle school and high school students while they are in Ann Arbor. Twenty-one Ann Arbor students will be involved in hosting the Hikone students in their homes over the next week.
    Along with attending school with Ann Arbor students, the Hikone students will be visiting Greenfield Village and joining in a number of home-stay activities with their host families.
    On October 31 a delegation made up of 12 Ann Arbor eighth and ninth grade students will travel to Japan on an educational exchange and goodwill mission during which the students will spend a week of their visit in Hikone. While they are there, they will attend local schools and stay in the homes of junior high school students.  This will be the seventeenth delegation of Ann Arbor students to participate in the educational exchange program.
    Please join me in welcoming our Hikone Sister City visitors to the Ann Arbor Public Schools.
  • Huron senior, Sandra Stangeland-Molo, is a Semifinalist in the 2011 National Achievement Program.
  • The band named "SOLE TRANSIT,"  won the battle of the bands on Friday night at the Neutral Zone. They have won a recording deal with The Orpheum studio, as well as other merchandise and perks. The band members are  Jordan Siden, Erez Levin, Dan Sagher, Kyle Morrison, and Leif Gearhart-Hall.
  • I had the pleasure to speak at a dedication ceremony on September 28, for three pictures depicting life in 19th century Ann Arbor, installed on the wall of the new North Quad building at the corner of State and Huron.  The exhibit is a part of the Downtown Ann Arbor Historical Street Exhibit Project.  The members of this Historical Project also have a partnership with Skyline High School and has given walking tours of downtown Ann Arbor exhibits depicting 19th and early 20th century history to over 300 students.
Todd Roberts, Ed.D.
Superintendent