The second and third grades are sponsoring this year’s Second Harvest Food Bank Food Drive. Please bring canned or dried foods and other non-perishable food items for the bins. The bins are located at the upper campus main office and the Farm House Office at…
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
Mount Madonna School students interview Admiral Stephen Rochon as part of their Washington, D.C. interview tour through the Values in World Thought program. Here is a short sample from the interview. The school takes juniors and seniors every other year to D.C….
A fun glimpse into the ninth graders’ current activities through the Catalina Environmental Leadership Program (CELP) by Fabricio Breeze Olsson. And a look at the marine science learning that sophomores have been up to throught the University of Southern California’s Wrigley…
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…
Sitting at their assigned Mission Control stations, Mount Madonna School (MMS) middle school students Meris Brown, Amirah Alexander and Ben Pearson studied the monitors before them, ready to participate as the “journey” to Mars unfolded. “It really felt like the shuttle crew…
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.
“Learning Journey Under the Sea,” Mount Madonna School’s 9th and 10th grade Catalina Island trip, May 2015. A big thank you to our hosts, the USC Wrigley Center (10th grade) and the Catalina Environmental Leadership Program (9th grade) for providing such a beautiful location to study ocean life!
The ninth grade class recently returned from a Learning Journey they call “Flow with Water” or Yeyeco Ica Atl in the language of the Pimungan people, the first human occupants of California’s Santa Catalina Island. The class went to Catalina Island off the coast of Long Beach and joined the Catalina Environmental Leadership Program (CELP) for a week of outdoor field studies, leadership challenges, and personal growth.
