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WatsonvillePatch.com: Día de los Muertos Celebrated At Mount Madonna School

WatsonvillePatch.com: Día de los Muertos Celebrated At Mount Madonna School. Mount Madonna School’s (MMS) annual celebration of Día de Los Muertos or Day of the Dead is fast approaching! Spanish teachers Carolina Riano and Sara Sobkoviak invite parents, visitors and the community…

Register-Pajaronian: Hawks Shine in Alvarez High Volleyball Tourney

Register-Pajaronian, 10/14/2019, Weekend Roundup: Hawks Shine in Alvarez High Volleyball Tourney,” by Juan Reyes. The Mount Madonna girls’ volleyball team competed through blood, sweat and tears in this past weekend’s Everett Alvarez High Varsity Volleyball Tournament.   A collision in the first game…

Preparing for Adulthood: Expanding the Traditional Home Economics Focus

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…

Register-Pajaronian: TOGO’s Athlete of the Week, 10/07: Savannah Cambell

Register-Pajaronian, 10/7/2019, “TOGO’s Athlete of the Week, 10/7: Savannah Cambell,” by Juan Reyes. Savannah Cambell, junior, (Mt. Madonna): Hawks’ junior finished with six aces, 27 assists, five digs and four kills in last week’s SCCAL win against San Lorenzo Valley. Cambell also recorded a…

Growing Up in Santa Cruz. Behind the Teacher’s Desk, “Lighting the Fire,” by Lisa Catterall

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…