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• School board meeting— State report card discussed

  By Audrey HackettNovember 30, 2017

  

  While Yellow Springs received mixed grades on the 2016–2017 Ohio school report card, district leaders remain skeptical that the report card system delivers meaningful data about local schools.

• Ready, set, teach …

  By Carol SimmonsAugust 31, 2017

  

  The newest faculty members for Yellow Springs School District gathered in the morning last Friday for some computer system orientation in anticipation of the first day of school Friday, Aug. 25.

• School facilities question— One town builds, one does not

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 17, 2017

  

  In the past 10 or so years, every school district in Greene County, except Yellow Springs, has either already built new school buildings or passed a levy to do so soon. The same is true for each district contiguous to the Yellow Springs schools.

• School board — Mills Lawn ends ILE program

  By Carol SimmonsAugust 3, 2017

  

  The longstanding Interest Learning Education Program, or ILE, at Mills Lawn, which arose out of former gifted programming at the elementary school, will be discontinued with the start of the new academic year, according to Superintendent Mario Basora.

• ‘Community Pulse’ meeting— YS school facilities discussed

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 27, 2017

  

  About 50 villagers heard from a panel of eight Yellow Springs School district teachers and shared their ideas, questions and concerns on the future of the district’s school buildings Tuesday, July 11, at Mills Lawn School.

• Big small steps

  By Matt MindeJanuary 26, 2017

  

  At least 250 villagers took to the sidewalks in downtown Yellow Springs last Saturday, Jan. 21, marching in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington and hundreds of other marches around the country and world.

• Yellow Springs School Board— Group to create mediation protocol for PBL

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanNovember 24, 2016

  

  The Yellow Springs High School’s Student Relations Board, a group of students and teachers, will be reconfiguring the project-based learning, or PBL, contracts signed by students in each class, with the intent of developing a mediation protocol for how the PBL teams deal with conflict.

• McKinney students go ‘Into the Wild’ to bike, learn, bond

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanOctober 6, 2016

  

  Last week, approximately 65 students left the hallowed halls of McKinney Middle School on a 53-mile bike trip over three days as part of “Into the Wild,” a project-based learning (PBL) excursion.

• A new school year with new projects, people

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanAugust 25, 2016

  

  Mills Lawn Principal Matt Housh and McKinney/Yellow Springs High School Principal Tim Krier discussed the possibilities awaiting students in the upcoming 2016–2017 school year.

• McKinney 7th graders launch year in canoes

  By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

  

  As the start of the school year draws closer, teachers and staff at the district’s schools already have plans in place for a number of immersive educational projects that reflect the district’s philosophy of project-based learning, or PBL.