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• 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.

• 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.

• 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 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.

• Fulton to play soccer for Heidelberg

  By Matt MindeMay 16, 2013

  

  Yellow Spring High School senior Keturah Fulton will play college soccer next fall at Heidelberg University in Tiffin.

• Valedictorian, salutatorian— Grades are good, learning’s better

  By Megan Bachman

  Lois Miller, valedictorian, and Hunter Lawson are members of the National Honor Society and received academic scholarships from their respective colleges. They will speak at the YSHS graduation on May 30 at 7 p.m.

• School librarian grew many readers

  By Megan Bachman

  

  The right book in the hands of the right student can be magic, says retiring school librarian Mary Ann Christopher, who has hooked many a student on books in her 16 years as the librarian of Yellow Springs Schools.

• School Board— Improvement levy discussed

  By Lauren HeatonApril 25, 2013

  The Yellow Springs Schools Permanent Improvement levy that supports buildings and other fixed assets will expire at the end of the year, and the district is discussing whether to renew the levy at the same level or replace it at a higher one.

• Young authors sign books

  By YS News StaffApril 14, 2013

  

  Mills Lawn fifth graders participating in a project-based learning unit have put out an informational book about Glen Helen. The authors will hold a book signing and party in celebration of the completion of the book on Sunday, April 21, 4 p.m. in the Glen Helen Auditorium.

• Kids learn chemistry by hand

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 28, 2013

  The Periodic Table, a chart of the earth’s elements organized by their chemical similarities, could be considered dry academic material. But make a game out of it, and suddenly the urge to know more about each element, its atomic weight and relation to the others, is not only necessary but kind of fun.