Teacher Sara Sobkoviak’s new Mount Madonna School (MMS) course for senior students, Adulting 101, is focused on bringing every-day life experiences into the classroom. The class is an expansion of last year’s Culinary Studies course, with additional topics, including sustainable gardening, healthy…
Growing Up in Santa Cruz, October 2019, Behind the Teacher’s Desk, “Lighting the Fire,” by Lisa Catterall. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel — Socrates “I have to do what? Talk about how a living…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 7/20/2019, Mount Madonna students receive EPA youth award | Name dropping.” The United States Environmental Protection Agency selected the 2017-18 fifth-grade class at Mount Madonna School in Watsonville to receive the President’s Environmental Youth Award for its work to…
Growing Up in Santa Cruz, August 2019, “Brain Building: Research Supports a “Playful” Approach to Preschool/Kindergarten Learning,” by Hema Walker. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world,…
All School 2019-20 School Days Calendar Preschool/Kindergarten: PreK and Kindergarten Supply List 19-20 New PreK K – Full Packet Elementary: Elementary School Supply List 19-20 Computer and Technology Guidelines for MMS Elementary Students 19-20 (all 3rd – 5th grade students) Due by first…
All School 2019-20 School Days Calendar Preschool/Kindergarten: PreK and Kindergarten Supply List 19-20 New PreK K – Full Packet Elementary: Elementary School Supply List 19-20 Computer and Technology Guidelines for MMS Elementary Students 19-20 (all 3rd – 5th grade students) Due by…
Four enthusiastic teachers have joined the ranks at Mount Madonna School (MMS) this year. Angela Willetts, Harjit Punj, Michelle Fisher and Stevan Manzur will be educating our students in the areas of high school mathematics and science, physical education, athletic coaching, studio…
Thank you to our friends at SITAARRE TV for the time and care that went into the interviews with cast and Director Sampad Kachuck, Sadanand Mailliard and Head of School Supriya McDonald at Mount Madonna School’s 41st annual Ramayana!. Click on each photo to view a…
Many of you in the Mount Madonna School and Mount Madonna Center community may have had a chance to connect with photographer Preston Merchant at Ramayana! recently. This is Preston’s sixth year documenting the Ramayana! through behind the scenes images! We are…
On April 25, the Mount Madonna School (MMS) fifth grade class attended WE Day at The Forum in Inglewood, California. The students were invited to attend because of their class project to protect sea otters. Along with the invitation, event organizers asked…
