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…
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…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 7/5/2017, “South Africa lessons,” by Shmuel Thaler. Read Adobe pdf
ServiceSpace.org, 5/30/2017, “Teaching + Transformation: The Karuna Project,” a documentary film by Devin Kumar (’06) about Mount Madonna senior students’ recent travels in India. Watch the video
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 3/30/2017, Photo of the Day by Shmuel Thaler. Bella Bettencourt, of Aptos, right, enjoys a moment with Pardada Pardadi Educational Society eleventh-grader Jassi Sejwal as Bettencourt and her Mount Madonna School classmates visit the school in Anupshahr, India during…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 8/20/2016, “Name Dropping: The Value of Learning,” Mount Madonna School’s seniors and juniors interviewed a number of influential government and non-government leaders during the school’s “Values in World Thought” 18th learning journey to Washington, D.C. Read more
Please join us: Mount Madonna School juniors and seniors will travel to Washington, D.C., this month for a 13-day Learning Journey. We invite you to follow the students’ journey via their trip blog at http://values.mountmadonnaschool.org/category/blogs/dc-2016/, and encourage you to take time to respond…
For many years now, California’s Secretary for Natural Resources, John Laird, has taken time to come to Mount Madonna School and speak with the junior and senior classes. He has given his entire working career to public service: Santa Cruz city council,…
Featured Video: A 2014 interview with Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth as part of Mount Madonna School’s Values in World Thought Program. Biennially (and upcoming in May 2016), the juniors and seniors travel to Washington, D.C. to talk with America’s political, NGO, and nonprofit…
Featured Video:The senior class interview with Dave Steward, chief of staff to former South African President F.W. de Klerk. The students interviewed Steward as part of their Values in World Thought journey to South Africa in June 2015.
