Aptos Times: Beauty & the Beast (With Masks)
Aptos Times, 2/15/2022, “Beauty & the Beast (With Masks),” photos by John Welch.
Aptos Times, 2/15/2022, “Beauty & the Beast (With Masks),” photos by John Welch.
Good Times, 2/21/2022, “Mt. Madonna Students Help With Elkhorn Slough Monitoring,” by Erin Malsbury.
As a six-year-old first grader in 1960, Ruby Bridges walked past enraged protestors and into history as part of desegregating Louisiana public schools. That such a young child could overcome fear and face this staggering challenge wasn’t lost on Mount Madonna School…
On a clear, sunny morning last week, curious students explored the flora and fauna of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, investigating invertebrate specimens, water, air and soils tests, and recording observations in nature journals. Mount Madonna School (MMS) fifth and…
Each year, the Mount Madonna School (MMS) fifth grade class engages in a year-long, cross-curricular study focused on an environmental topic selected by the students. For 2021-22, students voted to focus on sea lions to raise public awareness and reduce the existential…
By Lisa Catterall Children make your life important. — Erma Bombeck I’m staring at a dresser covered with dirty glasses. They have rings of dried and yellowed milk, encrusted smoothie droplets, and they are sitting on top of a stack of plates,…
Biomedical Engineering is a unique, new Mount Madonna School course this school year. It’s an elective for eleventh grade students through the high school engineering program. This class includes units on genetic engineering and Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR), design…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 2/7/2022, “Students Explore Elkhorn Slough.” Contributed photos by Stevan Manzur and Jessica Cambell.
From squid and jellyfish to sand, surf – and even Santa Cruz’s iconic Big Dipper roller coaster – each has inspired the sense-infused descriptions and evocative art pieces of Mount Madonna School (MMS) fourth graders. For the past several months as part…
Growing Up in Santa Cruz, February 2022, Teacher’s Desk, “The World is Knocking” by Lisa Catterall. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche This week I had the pleasure of teaching in a true…