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Santa Cruz Sentinel, Local Roundup: Mount Madonna Volleyball Opens SCCAL with Win Over PCS

Santa Cruz Sentinel, 3/7/2018, “Local Roundup: Mount Madonna volleyball opens SCCAL with win over PCS,” by Sentinel staff. Brigg Busenhart had 16 kills and the Mount Madonna School boys volleyball team prevailed over visiting Pacific Collegiate, 26-24, 25-23, 23-25, 25-21, in the…

Making Caring Common: Mount Madonna Among Nation’s First Schools to Join Harvard Project

Mount Madonna School is an early leader in Harvard’s Making Caring Common Project and #CommonGround campaign, which seeks to bridge divides and build stronger communities.  March 6, 2018 – Mount Madonna School (MMS) is among the nation’s first schools to join a…

Morgan Hill Life: Mt. Madonna Students Push the Envelope with “Urinetown”

Morgan Hill Life, 1/27/2018, “Mt. Madonna students push the envelope with ‘Urinetown’; cutting-edge satire looks at balancing human rights against a lack of resources,” by Marty Cheek. Mount Madonna High School students pushed the envelope of environmental theatrical story-telling and made a…

Powerful Voices and Literary Gems: Students Participate in National Writing Competition

This fall the freshmen and sophomore English classes participated in the Yes! Magazine Writing Competition, a national writing competition with roughly 2,000 participants each quarter. Last year Mara Peruzzi received an award in the Powerful Voice category and Imogen Cockrum was the…

Register-Pajaronian: Mount Madonna School Presents “Lion King Jr.”

Register-Pajaronian, 12/9/2017, “Mount Madonna School presents “Lion King, Jr.” “For our production, students are taking on the challenge of personalizing their roles and investing deeply into the world of the characters,” said director Sampad Kachuck. “Whether singing, dancing or simply ‘living’ on…

gmh Today: Relationships – Opening the Door to Transformational Learning

gmh Today, November-December 2017, pages 102-103, “Relationships – Opening the Door to Transformational Learning,” by Ward “SN” Mailliard. Photos by Shmuel Thaler. I am often asked, “How do you manage to engage the prominent leaders that the students interview?” and “How do…

Boys Cross Country Team Scores CCS Top Academic Honor

The Mount Madonna School (MMS) boys varsity cross country team has received the Central Coast Section (CCS) highest academic honor by the California Interscholastic Federation: “2017-18 Fall Season Scholastic Championship Team Award.” “As a teacher and a coach, I believe academics is…