Congratulations to senior Kira Kaplan, for being honored by the Red Cross with a Youth Services Award! Santa Cruz Sentinel, 12/27/2020, Namedropping, “Red Cross Honors Volunteers.” The American Red Cross of the Central Coast honored 18 local residents and an area fire…
An evening of dialogue and discovery Values in World Thought is a capstone course unique to Mount Madonna School (MMS) that spans 11th and 12th grades and engages students in meaningful conversations. True dialogue is a collaborative process of active listening and discussion that…
Aptos Times. 12/21/2020, “Anti-Racist Work Underway at Mount Madonna,” by Shannon Kelly. On Nov. 11, the staff and faculty of Mount Madonna School gathered via Zoom for a workshop to fight racism entitled, “Building on Cultural Assets and Strengths: One Step to…
By Sara Sobkoviak This summer many of our Mount Madonna School (MMS) faculty participated in professional development activities in an effort to prepare for the challenges we might face teaching in this new COVID-19 situation knowing that everything would be different for…
Creativity was on display recently, when Mount Madonna School fourth grade students gathered materials found outdoors around their classroom to use as brushes for painting. Their finds included leaves, branch tips from cedar, redwood and pine trees, small flowers, and grasses. They…
This week eighth grade students at Mount Madonna School participated in two hands-on astronomy labs. In their first activity, twirling strings overhead and in front of them, students learned about the periods of revolutions various planets have around the sun, why some…
Over several days recently, Mount Madonna School (MMS) ninth grade students learned about cell osmosis, and their understanding of this concept was increased by participating in a hands-on activity known as the “Naked Egg Lab.” The students began by placing eggs in…
A recent period of remote learning offered ninth grade students an opportunity to brush up on their photography skills and see things from a new perspective, as part of an assignment for their Creative Expression class, co-taught by Angela Willetts and Haley…
In mid-November, Mount Madonna School kindergarten students, accompanied by teachers’ assistant Jesuina Smith, visited the beloved redwood Fairy Forest on the campus grounds to gather supplies – including acorns, small redwood branches, sticks, feathers and seed cones – to be used in…
On an afternoon in mid-November, Mount Madonna School (MMS) third grade students gathered with their classmates to share their learning about several of the indigenous tribes whose ancestral lands are located throughout California and how they lived long before European immigrants came…
