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• Four local teachers to retire

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 3, 2011

  Four teachers with long and distinguished tenure in the Yellow Springs schools gave notice of their resignations at the end of the current school year.

• Young minds, bodies take to yoga in the schools

  By Sehvilla Mann

  

  A group of 19 students sits cross-legged on purple mats in Sarah Lowe’s classroom at McKinney Middle School; they’ll be spending the next 50 minutes practicing yoga.

• Life in India focus of Mills Lawn study

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Students at Mills Lawn School have been studying Indian life and culture in preparation for this weekend’s all-school musical, Bollywood Jungle Book. The play will be shown this Saturday and Sunday at the Paul Robeson Cultural and Performing Arts Center on the Central State campus.

• Get educated about education

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 19, 2011

  

  The community will get a double dose of education-inspired talk this week with a presentation by Miami University education professor Michael Dantley on Tuesday, Feb. 22, and a screening of the film No Textbook Answer: Communities Confront the Achievement Gap the following Saturday. See the film’s trailer here.

• Schools aim for least harmful cuts

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 17, 2011

  The ultimate goal of school district budget cuts is to respond to the district’s deficit spending while making the least amount of programmatic change.

• Inspiring better education

  By Lauren Heaton

  About 50 people came to hear Deborah Meier and Shadia Alvarez, both progressive educators and Antioch alumni, speak at the Herndon Gallery on Antioch College campus Feb. 12.

• Antioch and village schools collaborate on Future of Education series

  By Megan Bachman

  

  The Yellow Springs school board, in inviting a series of progressive-minded educators and thinkers to town, hopes the next few months are filled with discussion and debate about the future of education in the village.

• Music, dance to honor YSHS theater

  By Kelsey CundiffFebruary 10, 2011

  The YSHS theater program has inspired Lauren Westendorf and Donovan Berends, so the duo is holding a musical review featuring songs from Broadway musicals to raise money for the program as their senior project.

• Teachers urge caution—Personnel cuts detrimental?

  By Lauren Heaton

  With a healthy cash carryover, the Yellow Springs district should be “judicious” about decisions to eliminate staff and cut benefits, which could end up hurting the district more than helping, the teachers said.

• Students dig for morbid treasures

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 5, 2011

  

  Fifth grade students glean the inside story from owl pellets.