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Expedition to Harlem to Embrace An Artistic Revolution
In Meg Brooks’ Artistic Revolution & the Harlem Renaissance course, students explore the ties between the experimentation of the arts during the Harlem Renaissance and its effects on culture and art today. As the course description describes, “The aptly-named Harlem Renaissance was a period of prolific production and exponential experimentation in the realms of art…
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MDE Collaboration with PK4
Designing a product for a specific client is an incredibly rich and multi-layered learning experience. In addition to leveraging skills like solution seeking, critical thinking, connecting, communicating and innovating, to ensure the clients needs are met, attributes like empathy, adaptability and creativity are key contributors to success. In Digital Woodworking, an Upper School Maker, Design…
Arts in Action Returns to Lower Campus
Written By Lower School Performing Arts Teacher and Arts in Action Coordinator, Amanda Lower On April 21, 2023, the sounds of Djembe drums filled the air as parents and students entered the front entrance of Lower Campus. Older faces were behind the drums, familiar to all of the teachers. Mr. Micah Caldwell, the Director of…
Second Annual MV Student Film Festival
On April 20, 36 Film students from Film Production, Post-Production, and Sport Broadcasting courses came together to showcase their talents in the second annual Upper School Film Festival. Many elements make cinema stand apart from other art forms—movies can speak to the emotions of the audience and connect with each viewer through the moving picture….
Grade 4 Big Dinner Unit
How might we create and share a collection of recipes that display our many similarities and differences across Grade 4? Throughout the “Big Dinner” Inquiry-based learning (IBL) unit, students used reading, writing, and numeracy literacies, paired with critical thinking and communicating skills while leaning into the attributes of curiosity and creativity. As always they started…
Student Artists Selected to Highly Prestigious Georgia Art Exhibition
Two Mount Vernon Upper School students were selected to showcase their artwork in the 5th Congressional District of Georgia High School Art Exhibition, which opened on April 5. Edee Moorman, Class of 2024, and Lily Sanford, Class of 2025 will have their work on display among the most talented high school students in Atlanta. The…
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Special Guest at Lower Campus Chapel, Kyle Pease
Lower Campus Chapel welcomed the national speaker and leader, Kyle Pease, founder of the Kyle Pease Foundation, a nonprofit that helps disabled athletes participate and succeed in sports. Kyle shared his triumphant story, including getting diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 6 months old, playing sports with his brothers while growing up, graduating from Kennesaw State…
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Mount Vernon Students Among Presenters at VMed 23 in Los Angeles
A student-designed solution is improving the physical therapy experience for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta patients. The Mount Vernon School’s Virtual Reality (VR) team was among 60 presenters at the annual Virtual Medicine (vMed) Conference in Los Angeles last week. Presenting details on a VR experience for pediatric patients at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the VR…
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Boom Boom Flash – A Study of Light, Sound, Color, and Emotion
Grade 1 students took an expedition to The Nature of Color Exhibit at the Fernbank Museum last week to deepen their understanding of light, sound, color, and emotions as part of the Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) unit, “Boom Boom Flash.” Students engaged in hands-on experiences exploring how colors make people feel, what colors we associate with…
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