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• 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.

• Interpreting Yellow Springs Schools’ report card

  By Audrey HackettMarch 31, 2016

  

  Ohio released its 2014–2015 school report cards last month, which are measures of student and school performance based on an array of state tests.

• Yellow Springs High School dancers cut ‘Footloose’

  By Audrey HackettMarch 10, 2016

  

  One week and one day out from opening night, the cast and crew of “Footloose” was hard at work, warming up their voices with crisp sounds: “va, va, va,” “no, no, no, no, no” and several rounds of “red leather, yellow leather.”