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• Teacher contracts in sight

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 25, 2013

  On Tuesday this week the Yellow Springs school board and the local district’s teacher’s union met with a federal mediator to draft a tentative agreement for a contract for the district’s 51 teaching staff members.

• High school moves to block schedule

  By Lauren HeatonJune 27, 2013

  When McKinney Middle and Yellow Springs High School start up again in the fall, students will be piloting a new hybrid block schedule for their classes.

• 2013 Mills Lawn School Sixth Grade Clap-out

  By Matt MindeJune 4, 2013

  

  For the younger residents of the school, it’s just the end of another grade. For the oldest, it’s the end of a world they’ve known since kindergarten.

• Congrats Class of 2013!

  By Suzanne SzempruchMay 31, 2013

  

  Congratulations Yellow Springs High School class of 2013!

• Basketball coach Brad Newsome retires— Winning games, molding men

  By Megan BachmanMay 30, 2013

  Some basketball coaches are just coaches, their influence confined to the court. Brad Newsome was the other kind. In his 16 years coaching Yellow Springs High School boys basketball, Newsome not only crafted athletes, he molded men.

• PE teacher Sarah Lowe to retire— Caring for the whole person

  By Megan Bachman

  For all teachers, developing a good relationship with students is key. But it’s especially important when it comes to teaching the touchy and highly personal topics that health teacher Sarah Lowe has covered in her 35-year career.

• Guest learned by teaching

  By Megan BachmanMay 23, 2013

  

  While the district will begin so-called project-based learning (PBL) next school year, Ellen Guest has been exploring similar methods for decades, squeezing in projects wherever she could. That’s one reason her retirement at the end of this school year is tinged with sadness.

• High school honors top academics

  By YS News Staff

  

  Yellow Springs High School recognized many of its students, especially its seniors, at the annual scholarship awards ceremony on Wednesday, May 15.

• Schools forecast solvent budgets

  By Lauren Heaton

  At their meeting Thursday, May 9, the Yellow Springs school board approved the rosiest five-year forecast that they’ve seen in the past three years.

• Schools tackle project-based learning

  By Matt Minde

  

  To stimulate discussion in the wider community about the purpose of project-based learning (PBL), the district has invited a speaker from the Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs High Tech High school in San Diego to share ideas about building a curriculum based in PBL.