Gateway School provides a Neighborhood Nectar Corridor by Petra Bryan What do cherries, blueberries, pumpkin pie, and chocolate all have in common? They all need pollinators! That’s one of [...]
Taking aim at alternative ed…again by Suki Wessling May 2021 It’s not news that administrators in public education are generally not fans of alternative education. I live in possibly the […]
What can we parents learn from the contrasting stories of Gillian and Libby? The Remarkable Life of Gillian Lynne by Marianne Sunderland Growing up in England in the 1930s, Gillian […]
Museums and Galleries Celebrate Reopening Museums and galleries across the Santa Cruz County area join together to welcome visitors back during Museums Month. Museums, galleries, and other [...]
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 […]
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 [...]
A Letter from a most thoughtful educator “Dear Friends and Colleagues: I am writing today about the children of this pandemic. After a lifetime of working among the young, I […]
A Book-banning Debate Over How to Teach Antiracism The Burbank Unified School District has removed five books from instruction: “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “Roll of Thunder, Hear My [...]
What is the current status of schools in Santa Cruz County? In-Person? Distance-Learning? Combination Choices? You would have to be living under a rock to not know that throughout the […]
