Sidd McDonald, middle and high school math teacher and volleyball coach, joined Mount Madonna School in 2003 and is retiring at the end of the current school year. Alumna Alexis Julien (’15) spoke with McDonald in December 2019, and wrote the following…
Are their people you are grateful for? Someone you’d like to thank? Mount Madonna School (MMS) Upper School Director Shannon Kelly recently came across an activity through the Making Caring Common Project that is geared to students ages 4-10, and designed to…
Drawn from classroom activities and a variety of inspirations, some Mount Madonna School (MMS) students are enjoying creating mandalas from found and gathered natural objects. “In the preschool and kindergarten (Pre/K), students did a lot of mandala art for cultural awareness and…
On April 16, Mount Madonna School (MMS) students and faculty had completed four weeks of remote learning and teaching, one milestone among many. What follows is a “snapshot” along our “remote learning time line.” In between participating in Zoom science class with…
Dear MMS Families, I hope you are all well and navigating these strange times. For the Performing Arts Team, with the Ramayana not being officially performed in a theatre, we have been grappling with how to best navigate this project in our…
“I read this this article today and thought of you,” shared Mount Madonna School (MMS) alumna Lara Kilpatrick (’85) in a recent email to MMS administrators. “I found her words so inspiring.” The article, Collective Vulnerability, the FFTs of Online Learning, and the…
On a sunny afternoon in late March, in compliance with the current outdoor activity and social distancing protocols, Mount Madonna School twelfth graders Fiona Burgess, Rachel Burgess, and Tabitha Hardin-Zollo posed in masks and mortarboards on the day they’d been scheduled to…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 4/11/2020, “Senior portraits change during coronavirus pandemic.” Mount Madonna School twelfth graders Fiona Burgess, Tabby Hardin-Zollo and Rachel Burgess pose in mortar boards and masks on the day they had been scheduled to have their high school senior portraits…
Mount Madonna School (MMS) teachers, students and staff took a spring break, March 30-April 3, though for some the learning, teaching and work continued! On April 6, school “resumed” for the third week of remote instruction. “I am so proud of all…
gmh Today, Spring 2020 issue, “Theater Scene: Ramayana!,” by Scott Lynch. To read Scott Lynch’s reflection on Ramayana!, click here and flip through the Spring 2020 issue to page 72. Note: the magazine was in the final stages of production in mid-March. Since…
