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Showing posts with label Skyline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skyline. Show all posts
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Guest Post! Helen Keller and Education for People Who Are Blind: Ann Arbor Library Exhibit

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I was on my way into the main branch of the Ann Arbor District Library for this school board meeting  when I noticed that there was an inter...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Smarter Balanced Pilot: How Will the Testing Be Given? Can You Get Out Of It?

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Read Part I: Smarter Balanced Test: Try It Out Before Your Kids Take It Read Part II: Smarter Balanced Comes to Ann Arbor a Year Early. Why...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Brush With Fame: Brooklyn Parents Opting Out

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Today, I had a brush with fame. I know, you're thinking that it had something to do with President Obama's visit to Zingerman'...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Principal Principles, Perspectives, and Publicity

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Pioneer Perspicacity   (I was looking for P words--and I had to look perspicacity up, but it's a good choice because essentially it me...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Skyline "Cares"

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  Every now and then something comes along that I find both very funny, and very sad at the same time. My daughter's friend g...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Skyline High School: Two Pluses and a Wish

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When my children were in their middle elementary years, they had a teacher who would have students read and evaluate other students' pro...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Fall Sports: Title IX, Pay to Play

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This fall, Skyline High School has a female kicker on their football team! Like so many other kickers, Tori Norris grew up playing soccer, a...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Skyline High School and the Shortest Poem in the English Language

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At the end of this school year I went to the Skyline "Pinning" Ceremony. The "pinning" ceremony is where honors students...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Skyline High School Math Teacher Doubles As A Track Star

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The Olympic Diving Trials were on television the other afternoon and my daughter says to me, "My former* math teacher is competing at t...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Skyline Graduates Its First Class! Happiness!

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Tonight was Skyline graduation. For those of us with children who graduated--and that includes the Deputy Superintendent, Robert Allen, as w...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

MIFA Theater "One-Acts" This Friday and Saturday

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This year, the MIFA One-Act State Competition is being held at Dexter High School on Friday and Saturday, February 17th and 18th. You can co...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Theatre. . . Competition?!

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Without much notice or fanfare, high school theater* groups around the state prepare one-act plays for a theater competition--the Michigan I...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Budget Ideas: Forums and Beyond

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I was looking at my cell phone bill, and the bill was higher than I expected, because the "usage" was higher than expected. Uh oh....
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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Foul Play? Fair Play? Great Plays

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A friend sent me this note (redacted just slightly for privacy): Hi Ruth, Not sure if you are interested in this kind of stuff - sort of...
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