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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.

• Walk on water

  By Robert HasekMarch 30, 2017

  

  As part of their spring PBL, Mills Lawn School second-graders are studying water. They walked 3.7 miles over two days to simulate the average walk many must make around the world on a daily basis to get water.

• Yellow Springs school board— Early success on 2020 plan?

  By Audrey HackettFebruary 24, 2017

  

  It’s only 2017, but the 2020 strategic plan for Yellow Springs schools is — with a few key exceptions — mostly accomplished.

• Rollerball

  By Robert HasekFebruary 23, 2017

  

  Mills Lawn Elementary fourth-grade students participated in the “Wheelchair Experience,” a project-based learning curriculum designed to help students understand accessibility issues.

• 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.

• School board— Eighth graders may travel to NYC

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanOctober 27, 2016

  

  Thanks in part to the success of the seventh-grade “Into the Wild” trip, McKinney Middle School teachers are seeking to enlarge the scope of the annual eighth-grade trip to Washington, D.C., scheduled to depart on May 4.

• 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.

• June 9 Yellow Springs School Board— School leaders travel to High Tech High

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanJune 23, 2016

  

  While school may be out for students, teachers and administrators are hard at work preparing for a successful 2016–2017 school year. In recent weeks district personnel visited High Tech High in San Diego.

• Mills Lawn School ‘Buddy bench’ project ensures a place for everyone

  By Carol SimmonsJune 16, 2016

  

  A group of students at Mills Lawn School installed a new feature on the K–2 playground recently that they anticipate will help their classmates enjoy a happier and friendlier recess time.

• PBL training center debuts in Yellow Springs schools

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 26, 2016

  

  At the May 12 school board meeting, the goal of creating a PBL training center became reality, with unanimous board approval of the YS Deeper Learning Training Center.