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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 with the [...]

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 with my family. Fast forward [...]

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 Shaw-Waw-Nas-See. I [...]

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 have [...]

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 spoke so openly about race, [...]

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, I was already familiar [...]

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 [...]