Santa Cruz Sentinel, Mount Madonna Students Visit India
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 2/29/2024, “Mount Madonna Students Visit India,” story and photos by Shmuel Thaler. Sentinel cover story (downloadable pdf) Global Learning – photo essay (downloadable pdf)
Service Learning
Students Roll Up Sleeves on National Day of Service
The Mount Madonna School (MMS) community honored the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. by participating in a nationwide day of service on Friday, January 12. “This year, MMS students and faculty participated in our third annual day of service…
Gilroy Chamber of Commerce: Stewardship and Identity: Students Initiate Collaborative Revitalization of Campus Lake Ecosystem
Gilroy Chamber of Commerce, 12/1/2023, blog, “Stewardship and Identity: Students Initiate Collaborative Revitalization of Campus Lake Ecosystem.”
Stewardship and Identity: Students Initiate Collaborative Revitalization of Campus Lake Ecosystem
On a recent afternoon, wind-blown cumulus clouds filled the sky and sunlight permeated towering redwood trees and grassland meadows, reflecting off the water of a small lake on the Mount Madonna School (MMS) campus. As senior students navigated a short hillside trail…
Honoring Excellence 2023: Students Recognized with Memorial and Pillar Awards
The Jivanti Rutansky Memorial Award In honor of Jivanti’s memory, the Mount Madonna School faculty give one high school student and one middle school student an award in her name each year. These awards are presented to students who embody the qualities…
Class of 2023: Valedictorians, Salutatorian and Seniors’ College Decisions
Mount Madonna School (MMS) is pleased to announce Cecily Kelly, Mariah Cohen and Samuel Kaplan as the 2023 co-valedictorians and Zoey Ocampo-Sobkoviak as salutatorian. Cohen, Kaplan and Kelly, who started attending MMS as preschools students, and Ocampo-Sobkoviak in fifth grade, earned this…
Class of ’23 Senior Spotlight: Zoey Ocampo-Sobkoviak
Name, city of residence: Zoey Ocampo-Sobkoviak, Watsonville Grade you started at MMS: Fifth grade What inspires you? What inspires me are people who defy expectations in a positive way and don’t let others define them. What is your favorite subject in school,…
The Value of Council: Sixth and Seventh Grade Students Honor Elder Classmates with Rite of Passage Preparations
On Wednesday, Mount Madonna School (MMS) sixth and seventh grade students – the only middle and high school students on campus this week – spent a few morning hours helping with preparations for the upcoming eighth grade Rite of Passage (ROP). Mount…
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Mount Madonna Students Visit with Jimmy Panetta
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 4/21/2023, “Mount Madonna Students Visit with Jimmy Panetta,” story by Shmuel Thaler, photo by Devin Kumar.
Student Government Association Organizes Support for Those Impacted by Storms
Due to the recent flooding and collapse of the Pajaro Levee, many of our south Santa Cruz County and north Monterey County community members are facing displacement, food insecurity and financial hardships. This flooding is disproportionately affecting lower-income Latinx or Hispanic families,…