Growing Up in Santa Cruz, January 2021, Teacher’s Desk, “Carry Forward,” by Lisa Catterall. The past gets carried with us. It’s always there. – Ann Pearlman Two days ago the sky finally poured a real amount of rain on our beautiful mountaintop…
Aptos Times, 1/1/2021, “Mount Madonna Hosts Conversations Jan. 12.”
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…
Lookout Santa Cruz, “21 for ’21: UCSC’s Marm Kilpatrick fights spread of pandemic misinformation,” by Nick Ibarra. A profile on the recent work of Mount Madonna School alumnus A. Marm Kilpatrick (’90). As COVID-19 began spreading across the U.S. early this year, infectious…
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…
