Growing Up in Santa Cruz, April 2020, “Teaching from a Distance,” by Lisa Catterall. Every day we wake up and there is nothing but time. My body jumps up thinking I’m already late. Late to make lunches, make breakfast, find their shoes….
Mount Madonna High School faculty offer insights into the learning environment at the 9th – 12th grade levels. The focus is on building relationships and community, bringing out the gifts and talents of each student, problem solving creatively, and learning to live…
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ― Søren Kierkegaard Every day we wake up and there is nothing but time. My body jumps up thinking I’m already late. Late to make lunches, make breakfast, find their…
SantaCruzParent.com, 3/19/2020, “Local Heroes,” by Parmalee Taff (pulled from the SantaCruzParent.com weekly eNewsletter. To subscribe, visit santacruzparent.com Local heroes abound. Teachers, schools and parents have swiftly rallied, innovated and adapted to the big educational shift caused by the pandemic. Teachers: “It has been exhilarating…
Aptos Times, 3/15/2020, “New Leader for Mount Madonna.” Ann Goewert, a math and science specialist at the helm of a private school in Silicon Valley, will be Mount Madonna School’s next head of school. She succeeds Mary Supriya McDonald, who retires July…
Boys Volleyball, March 12: MMS defeated SLV 25-9, 25-15, 25-19. Noah Tervalon had 33 assists, Ronan Lee and Ben Pearson had 10 digs each. Pearson had 20 kills and Lee made 10. Tervalon made 4 aces, Lee had 3. Track and Field,…
By Beth Brennan Mount Madonna School (MMS) parents hosted another successful Career Forum on Friday March 6 at the upper campus for the high schoolers. The event was lauded by the students, teachers, parent volunteers and the career participants. The participants this…
Mount Madonna School and Mount Madonna Institute are co-presenting an extraordinary yoga teacher training program for educators: Teaching Yoga and Mindfulness to Children,” June 22-July 2. Participants can learn to create and teach engaging yoga classes for children, and apply the practices…
The University of California, Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences and Division of Social Sciences invite the public to the seventh annual Confronting Climate Change public lecture series at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz. The upcoming event, “Confronting Climate…
University of California, Santa Cruz, Science Impact Report, February 2020, “Biologist Marm Kilpatrick helps introduce a new bill to protect monarch butterflies.” Marm (Auston) Kilpatrick (MMS class of ’90) is a professor in the ecology and evolutionary biology department at UCSC. Read…
