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• 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.

• 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.