Mount Madonna School eleventh grade students Priyanka Bharghavan and Noah Kaplan had the opportunity this week to attend a political fundraising event in Menlo Park honoring Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. One of the event hosts, Sally-Christine Rodgers, a longtime friend…
The Mercury News, 3/25/2018, “Mount Madonna School Reading Writing and Reasoning,” photo by Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel. Mount Madonna School junior Gracie Howley notes an important passage as her Values In World Thought class discusses the meaning of the work of…
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…
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…
The Connection, 2016-17, an annual publication for families, friends and alumni of Mount Madonna School. Click on the above image to load and view the content in a ‘page-turning’ format or download the PDF.
The video shares highlights from the beginning of the year river-rafting trip that Mount Madonna High School takes every year: scenes from on the river as well as student reflections on what the trip means to them and how it influences the…
SchoolLinks.com, 9/11/2017, The Path to Higher Ed, Building College and Career Readiness – “Understanding Your Multi-situated Self,” a dialogue with Director of Upper School Shannon Kelly (’92). In a recent social media post, teacher Haley Campbell (’02) shared her impressions of the…
We are very happy to start the year off again with a white water rafting trip on the American River outside of Sacramento. We are contracting with H2O Adventures, who purchased River and Rock last year as our guides and outfitter for…
We are in the planning phase of our annual beginning-of-the-school-year field trip. This year the Middle School will be going to Big Basin Redwoods State Park. The 8th graders will be going on a separate backpacking trip for two days and two…
ServiceSpace.com, Teaching + T: “The Extraordinary Ordinary.” “The one statement that she continued to repeat, and caused to me to think a lot, was to be an extraordinary, ordinary person. At first I found this to be slightly confusing but the more…
