Home

Please note this website is no longer maintained, we have moved to a new address, click on link below.

Link to New Website

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is AAPAC?

The Ann Arbor Parent Advisory Committee for Special Education (AAPAC) is a group of parents and guardians whose focus is on supporting children in AAPS who have IEPs or 504 Plans.

Our Executive Committee members and individual Building Representatives and Alternates provide parents and guardians with a helping hand to go to anytime with questions.

Here is the AAPAC Brochure.

The Executive Director of the Office of Special Education is Concetta Lewis. You can reach the OSE at 734-994-2318, or check their OSE Staff page for more ways to reach them. Here is the organization chart as of October 7, 2024 that gives you some info about who to contact about what.

Here is the AAPAC Committee Report that Mary Duerksen gave to the Board of Education on June 28, 2017.  It gives a thorough description of what AAPAC does.

Here is Melissa Epstein’s report to the Ann Arbor Board of Education from May 25, 2022.

Here is an IEP Team Contact Form for a parent or guardian to keep track of the names and contact information for their child’s IEP service providers.  You can take it to IEP meetings to note service providers for the next school year, or to ask the special education teacher or case manager at the start of new school year. For contact information for OSE Assistant Directors, go to mi01907933.schoolwires.net/Page/8746. For AAPAC Building Representatives, go to a2pac.wordpress.com/current-reps/.

Here is the list of self-contained classrooms.

Board Reports

Here is the AAPAC Report to the Board of Education from their 2/24/2021 meeting.

Here is the board’s statement from the 5/26/21 Board meeting regarding the district’s decision on before and aftercare.

Meeting flyer

Curriculum Night flyer

2024-2025 Meeting Calendar

In recent years our meetings have been online. At 6:15pm, we have conferences where families can talk with administrators from the school system’s Department of Special Education, with the meeting’s main program starting at 7pm. Each meeting will have a topic, to be announced! This is the tentative meeting schedule:

  • October 7th – AAPAC’s first in-person meeting since the pandemic! (also on Zoom)Attendees for the meeting included:
    • Jazz Parks, Superintendent AAPS
    • Concetta Lewis, Assistant Superintendent Special Education
    • Jerron Bryant, Compliance Coordinator
    • Jessica Lucke, Cognitive Impairment Programming
    • Assistant Directors

    Welcome from Jazz Parks, Superintendent of AAPS.

    Concetta Lewis and team covered the following:

    • Special Education Millage
    • Departmental Overview & Continuum of Supports from OSE
    • Transportation Update (Concetta Lewis is the new Transportation Coordinator)
    • Staffing Update
    • Ancillary Leads and their roles
  • October 28th – Special meeting to meet the potential board of education candidatesThis forum will take the place of our November family meeting.AAPS Trustee Candidate Forum
    There are four open seats on the AAPS Board of Education this election year: six candidates for three 4-year terms and one candidate for a 2-year term. Each candidate had the opportunity to answer questions about educating students with disabilities in AAPS.Thanks to the candidates for the board of education for taking the time to answer our questions.

    You can view the recording here.

  • December 2 – OSE Administrators and Coordinators presented topics including an update by Concetta Lewis on the in-class service model at the secondary level, an introduction to assistive technology by Makia Alexander, and a presentation on inclusion and differentiation by Shalyn Furton. Ms. Lewis also gave a staffing update.
  • February 3Part 1: Varsity TutorsDawn Linden, Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning, and Liz Lucier, Family Engagement Coordinator, presented about this new service for all students. They covered how to log on, accessibility features, and accommodations.Part 2: High School to Post-Secondary Options and Transitions

    Jessica Lucke, Secondary Compliance and Transition Coordinator, and Elizabeth Shawl, Case Manager for the Disability Resource Center at Eastern Michigan University, presented about options after high school for our children who have 504s and IEPs. The presentations included information about applying to college programs with accommodations, young adult services, extended time to earn diplomas, and other Post-Secondary options for students. The OSE team also discussed the diploma vs. non-diploma track course of study.

    You can view the recording here          You can view the slides for the presentation here

Please see our archives page for info from meetings in past years.

Last updated February 5, 2025