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Ypsi Schools Tech Blog

I’m on the Ypsilanti Public Schools technology committee, and right now we’re trying to figure out what the technology needs of the district are in preparation for the upcoming bond vote.  The technology in the schools hasn’t been significantly updated since the last bond 10 years ago.  Although much of what was implemented at the [...]

February 12, 2007 BOE meeting

The recording of the Feb. 12 Board of Education meeting is online now at this page. You can download a copy of the presentation from the reproductive health education advisory committee over here.   If you want to see the presentation and ask questions, it will be presented again on February 27, 2007 in the media [...]

Sex-Ed presentation at Board of Education

For the past couple of years a Reproductive Health Education Advisory committee has been meeting to research sex-education curriculums for the Ypsilanti Public schools.  If you have kids in the schools,  you may have noticed that for many years now they have gotten no comprehensive sex-ed.  In line with that Ypsi has some of the [...]

Infantile behavior

During last Monday’s school board meeting to discuss the issue of the Braves nickname, several people who made public comments, really struck a chord with me. Unfortunately it wasn’t in a good way. Essentially, they kept referring back to Eastern dropping the Hurons name and how donations fell off after that. The implication was that [...]

Help send the Ypsi High Drama Club to Scotland

The Ypsilanti High School drama club has been invited to participate in the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland next summer. This is a huge honor being only the third ever school from Michigan invited to participate in the festival. There’s just one problem. In order to send the cast and crew to Edinburgh for [...]

Sept 25 Ypsi School Board Mtg

The audio of last nights Ypsilanti School board meeting is live at the site. You can subscribe to the feed from the Ypsi Government podcast page on this site. The most interesting thing to me was the opening discussion of a bond issue that will likely come to a vote next August. There is building [...]

Ypsilanti School Board Podcast

The podcast of the meetings of the Board of Trustees for the Ypsilanti Public School District is now live. You can find it http://ypsischools.podshow.com/. The audio of the meeting is uncut and unedited. I’ll be trying to record all the public meetings of the board and posting on podcast site. Podshow provides free podcast hosting [...]

Ypsilanti School Calendar

The Ypsi School District has put up their Calendar for the 2006-7 school year. The district website only has it as a pdf file. I added all the dates from the calendar to a Google Calendar and made it publicly accessible. If you are using any calendar program that can read .ics calendar files like [...]

School Coffee Chat

Last night I went to the first in what will hopefully be an ongoing series of coffee chats about the Ypsilanti Schools. The meeting was held at Bombadill’s and hosted by Richard Weigel. Richard came on board with the Ypsi Schools as Executive Director of Educational Services. Among other things he is responsible for curriculum [...]