2016 Washington, D.C. Learning Journey and Student Blog
Please join us: Mount Madonna School juniors and seniors will travel to Washington, D.C., this month for a 13-day Learning
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Please join us: Mount Madonna School juniors and seniors will travel to Washington, D.C., this month for a 13-day Learning
Sitting at their assigned Mission Control stations, Mount Madonna School (MMS) middle school students Meris Brown, Amirah Alexander and Ben
Featured Video: A 2014 interview with Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth as part of Mount Madonna School’s Values in World Thought Program.
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.
Interested in knowing more about the experiences of Mount Madonna School senior class during their recent Learning Journey to India? A new 14-minute video by Devin Kuman (’06) is now posted.
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The African word “Sawubona” means “I see you.” Like the Mount Madonna School Class of 2012 did before them, the current juniors chose this name to represent their upcoming trip to South Africa in June 2013. This unusual learning journey will be about seeing and gaining a new understanding of people in a part of the world that is far different from the one in which we live. Early next summer, sixteen students from the MMS “Values in World Thought” program will leave for Cape Town, which is the first stop on this journey of a lifetime.
This year’s seniors will journey to northern India in March and April 2013. The trip is part of the School’s two-year “Values in World Thought” program, an innovative high school social studies curriculum developed by faculty member and trip leader Ward Mailliard.
Braving wind, cold weather and at times rain, AP Biology students from Mount Madonna School (MMS) met researchers at Elkhorn Slough near Moss Landing last Friday to help count birds, including Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, White-tailed Kites, Blue Herons, and godwits.
