Traverse City West Senior High School announced today that Best Buy has awarded a $2,500 Teach Award to the school for integrating interactive technology into the curriculum. The funds will be used to enhance the student newspaper, The Occidentalist. The award will be use ...

Traverse City West Junior High School’s 6^th hour Theatre Arts II class is proud to present “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” on Thursday, March 15^th, and Friday, March 16^th, at 7:00 p.m. in the West Junior High School Litt ...

March 1-2, 2007            There will be a half-day of school for kindergarten through sixth grade students on Thursday, March 1, and Friday, March 2, 2007, to acc ...

On Friday, March 2, 2007 U. S. Disabled Ski Team Member, Tyler Walker, will visit three TCAPS schools to speak with students and share his experiences. Visitation schedule is as follows:

        TC West Junio ...

Traverse City West Senior High School senior Niccole McFalls is being honored for her exemplary volunteer service with a President’s Volunteer Service Award. This award recognizes Americans of all ages who have volunteered significant amounts of their time to serve their communities and the ...

Today a delegation of educators from the Saginaw Intermediate School District and local school districts from the Saginaw Michigan area are visiting schools and classrooms at Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS) to observe best practice models of teaching and learning for improving stu ...

Silver Lake Elementary School will kick off a month of reading activities by hosting a visit from Beach Bums mascot, Suntan, on Friday, March 2, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. in the gymnasium. The students are participating in Suntan’s Reading Around the Bases program this year.& ...

Traverse City West Junior High School will hold parent / teacher conferences on Thursday, March 8, 2007 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in teacher’s classrooms.

Parent / teacher conferences are a great opportunity for parents to be a part of their child’s school experience. ...

On Thursday, March 8, 2007 Traverse City Area Public Schools will present the All-City Elementary Band, Orchestra, and Honors Choir Concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Traverse City East Junior High School Gymnasium.

Fifth and sixth grade students from TCAPS’ elementary schools ...

Cherry Knoll Elementary School will hold their annual school carnival and silent auction on Friday, March 9^th, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. This year’s theme is “Country to Kountry.” Each classroom is decorated to represent a different country. Games will be played in ...

When:              Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007 at 9:30 a.m.

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Westwoods Elementary School PTO will host their third annual Family Sale Fundraiser on Saturday, March 3^rd from 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. The sale features gently used children’s clothing, toys, etc. and household items. Community members are invited to come and shop. The ...

On March 6, 2007 Dr. Sander Weckstein, Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, will discuss the topic: “The Autistic Spectrum Disorders – Autism, Asperger’s, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder NOS”

The evening will be the last in a series of four scheduled p ...

When:             March 12-13, April 16-17, and May 14-15, 2007; begins promptly at 3:30 p.m. and

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When:             Thursday, February 22, 2007 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Where:    &am ...

Traverse City East Junior High School’s 7^th and 8^th grade Math Team Performed very well at the Regional Math Counts Competition held on February 10^th at Northwestern Michigan College.

Four students fro ...

Three Traverse City East Junior High School ninth grade students were honored on Saturday, February 10, 2007 at the local Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) post. Under the guidelines of the VFW's Voice of Democracy program; Lydia Belanger, John Neilson, and Alan Jacobson wrote compelling essay ...