The Art of Asking Questions: Students Interview Former Secretary of State George Shultz
The Gift of Meaningful Work: Robin Hamsa Heinrich
A Hearty Congratulations to our Boys Volleyball Athletes and Coaches!
“Last night the boys volleyball season came to a close with a loss in the Central Coast Section Division III semifinals,” commented coach PK McDonald. “This season has been filled with great accomplishments and a great deal of adversity. It has offered…
Santa Cruz Sentinel: CCS boys volleyball: Mount Madonna Overcomes Hiccups, Monterey
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 5/9/2018, “CCS boys volleyball: Mount Madonna overcomes hiccups, Monterey,” by Julie Jag. Photos by Shmuel Thaler WATSONVILLE >> Something has been off with the Mount Madonna School boys volleyball team lately. After a hot start and a stretch of…
Government in Action: Washington, D.C. Learning Journey 2018
Mount Madonna School’s Values in World Thought Program We hope you will follow the Mount Madonna School juniors and seniors’ journey to Washington, D.C., May 12-23, as they interview an interesting array of government and social action leaders. Our students have been…
Students Participate in Santa Cruz Earth Day Poster Contest
“Ride Not Drive,” a poster promoting environmentally-friendly transportation by sophomores Aaron Saavedra, AnMei Dasbach-Prisk, Braeden Will, Connor Murphy, Ksenia Medvedeva and Tabitha Hardin-Zollo earned fifth place (out of 36 entries) in the recent Santa Cruz Earth Day teen poster contest. These students…
Food and Culture in High School Spanish
This semester has been an exciting one in Mount Madonna’s high school Spanish classes! In addition to learning new grammar and vocabulary and practicing conversational, presentational and interpretive communication skills, students were taken out of the classroom and into the kitchen where…
Fifth Grade Attend Apple’s Powerful Women Earth Day Event
One afternoon last week, the Mount Madonna School (MMS) fifth graders and a few of their parents walked – a bit awestruck – down a white marble staircase into seats of honor –second row, center stage – at the Steve Jobs Theater…
Ninth Graders’ Little Big History Night
From the history of diamonds, poppy seeds, coffee and chocolate, to communications, eyeglasses and all the way back to when the universe was created in the Big Bang, and then when life first appeared on Earth, Mount Madonna School (MMS) freshmen students…
Learning WILD: Middle School Students Relate to Injured Teens, Wildlife and Stories of Healing
When previewing the film Teach Me To Be WILD, Mount Madonna School (MMS) Dean of Students Bob Caplan said he experienced a rare combination of stillness, inspiration and compassion. The subtitle of the documentary offers this clue: “A story of hurt children…