In mid-November, Mount Madonna School kindergarten students, accompanied by teachers’ assistant Jesuina Smith, visited the beloved redwood Fairy Forest on the campus grounds to gather supplies – including acorns, small redwood branches, sticks, feathers and seed cones – to be used in…
On an afternoon in mid-November, Mount Madonna School (MMS) third grade students gathered with their classmates to share their learning about several of the indigenous tribes whose ancestral lands are located throughout California and how they lived long before European immigrants came…
Alumnus Noah S. Diffenbaugh, of the Mount Madonna School (MMS) class of 1992, was recently named as a 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow and recipient of the AGU’s William Kaula Award. Diffenbaugh is a professor of Earth System Science at Stanford…
Students Dialogue with Wakami founder María Pacheco My name is María. I was born in Guatemala and I am a biologist, an entrepreneur and founder of the Wakami system. I am also a mother and a firm believer that collective dreams are…
By Director of Upper School Shannon Kelly (’92) On November 11, the staff and faculty of Mount Madonna School (MMS) gathered via Zoom to take part in a workshop entitled, “Building on Cultural Assets and Strengths: One Step to Developing an Anti-Racist…
Aptos Times, 11/11/2020 “Art, Poetry and Monsters: Sparking Imagination.” Read more
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 11/11/2020, “A vital sense of patriotism,” by Cyrus Kamkar (’18) Download pdf
Eighth Graders Use Their Minds – and Feet – for Physics Lab Up, down, then up again. On a recent afternoon, Mount Madonna School eighth grade students exercised their minds and bodies, by first walking, then running up and down a couple…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 11/9/2020, “Mount Madonna School has successful in-person instruction,” by Ryan Stuart; photos by Shmuel Thaler. WATSONVILLE >> Mount Madonna School in Watsonville is leading the charge in the return to in-person learning in Santa Cruz County. The private school…
Growing Up in Santa Cruz, November 2020, Behind the Teacher’s Desk, “Children are Parched for In-School Learning,” by Lisa Catterall. I’ve learned that terror doesn’t happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It…
