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• At Mills Lawn, inquiry is king

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 13, 2012

  The new buzzword in the Yellow Springs School District this school year is “inquiry-based learning,” and at Mills Lawn Elementary School the effort to guide learning around student interest and problem-solving is already under way.

• Teachers aim for big ideas

  By Lauren Heaton

  Every six seconds a child somewhere in the world dies from hunger. Leaders hunger for power, scholars hunger for knowledge, and demonstrators hunger to make statements about change. And everyone, big and small, hungers for love. Hunger is a big word, and its many iterations are the theme of this year’s McKinney School and Yellow Springs High School experience.

• New teachers at McKinney, YSHS

  By YS News Staff

  Brandon Lowry, Nancy Beers, Karleen Materne and Cameron McCoy

• Welcome back to school!

  By YS News StaffAugust 22, 2012

  

  By now it’s more than evident that school is back in session.

• 2012-13 Yellow Springs School Guide

  By YS News Staff

  

  Far from being garden mulch, the Yellow Springs News School Guide contains useful information for the whole year.

• Schools consider local food

  By Lauren HeatonJune 28, 2012

  A new Wellness Committee hopes to secure a grant to support a “farm to school” operation to get locally sourced fresh fruits and vegetables onto the trays of students at both the village’s elementary and secondary schools.

• Antioch School 90th anniversary— A school that runs like a family

  By Lauren HeatonJune 14, 2012

  

  Elsie Hevelin remembers clearly the tall front pillars and marble fireplaces in each room of Judge Mills house where she attended the Antioch School as a child.

• From classrooms to coral reefs

  By Megan BachmanJune 7, 2012

  

  Now entering a new phase of her life, Terry Graham, a former field biologist, retires at the end of the school year as science teacher to head back into the field.

• Mike DeWine visits YSHS— Native son faces local heat

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine returned last week to his alma mater, Yellow Springs High School, and shared with students his opinions on gay marriage, abortion and President Obama.

• Top students’ nod to village

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  The pressures of being students and trying to make plans for the future have reared their Cerberean heads in the lives of Yellow Springs High School seniors Erika Chick and Savita Bathija.