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Chris Soriano – Teacher at Heart, Nature Explorers Camp Leader Chris Soriano has over 10 years experience in outdoor education and he is passionate about sharing his love of nature […]

Rusty Kingon, Lifelong Sailor and Leader UCSC Summer Sailing Camp My first taste of sailing was aboard a Sunfish dinghy on a small lake in Northern Michigan as a kid […]

Kasey Lindemann, Leader Four Points Youth Camp I have loved summer camp since I was 7 years old. I am from Illinois originally and attended an overnight 4-h camp called Camp […]

Creating Positive Childhood Experiences By Nicole M. Young, MSW April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, which makes me pause to think about all the hardships and trauma children and families […]

The Status of Preschools and Childcare in Santa Cruz County by Sita Moon, Coordinator, Child Development Resource Center For those not familiar with the Child Development Resource Center, we are [...]

A Cautionary Perspective on Social Justice Teaching  by Martin Rochester, 11.1.2017 A recent front-page story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about “teaching social justice” in K–12 classrooms [...]

Creating the World We Want “During my first learning journey with MMS students to South Africa in 2009, I was struck by the fact that the South Africans I met […]

Using literature and current events to teach Social Justice issues by Rachel Sattinger, a 4th-grade teacher at Gateway School As a white, financially stable, woman teaching in a local independent [...]

Balancing Work and Family During a Pandemic Ask Nicole By Nicole M. Young, MSW I’ve been working from home for nearly 20 years, so when COVID-19 turned life upside down, […]

American Democracy, American Racism The Mount Madonna School (MMS) public lecture series based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) continues on March 18 at 7:00pm with [...]