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Cultivating Leadership & Purpose: The Grade 5 Impact Summit

March 26, 2025 (March 26, 2025)

At Mount Vernon, learning isn’t just about mastering content—it’s about discovering purpose and making an impact. Our intentionally designed learning journey provides students with transformative experiences that shape both their academic and personal development. This year, we introduced Impact Summits as pivotal capstone experiences at key transition points in Grades 5, 8, and 11, empowering…

Bridging the Gap Between Classroom and Career: The Power of Interim Externships

March 19, 2025 (March 19, 2025)

At Mount Vernon, students don’t just prepare for the future — they step into it. Through our expansive network of industry leaders and real-world learning experiences, we provide students with opportunities that go beyond traditional academics. Our commitment to external partnerships ensures that students are not only equipped with knowledge but also empowered with experience—making…

Bringing American History to Life: The Grade 4 Patriot & Loyalist Debate

March 4, 2025 (March 4, 2025)

At Mount Vernon, learning is not just about acquiring knowledge—it’s about experiencing it. When students actively engage in the learning process, they develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for the subject matter. This was evident during last week’s Grade 4 Patriot & Loyalist Debate, where history came to life through interdisciplinary connections, creativity, and hands-on…

Intentional Design Behind the Interim Experience

February 26, 2025 (February 26, 2025)

Since its launch in 2010, the Interim Term has served as a cornerstone of experiential learning for Mount Vernon students in grades 6-12. More than just travel, Interim is a carefully designed continuum of experiences that build progressively, equipping students with critical literacies, skills, and attributes that shape their academic and personal growth. Through purposeful…

How Dialogue Shapes Middle School

February 19, 2025 (February 19, 2025)

At Mount Vernon, learning extends beyond the classroom—it thrives in meaningful conversations that strengthen our community. This year, Middle School students participated in a transformative Student Dialogue Series aimed at fostering self-leadership and integrity. Through seven structured discussions, students developed skills to navigate diverse perspectives, practice empathy, and contribute to a culture of connection—ensuring that…

Exploring Faith and Fostering Understanding

February 12, 2025 (February 12, 2025)

At Mount Vernon, we believe that expanding our knowledge and understanding of the world is essential to fostering a culture of empathy, curiosity, and global readiness. This belief is at the heart of the Upper School’s World Religions course, Believe It or Not, designed to engage students in an immersive exploration of different faith traditions….

Student Leaders Building a Legacy of Impact

February 5, 2025

At Mount Vernon, leadership is about action, responsibility, and inspiring others. Our students are not waiting for the future to make an impact; they are stepping up today to create meaningful change. To be impact-ready means having the agency and autonomy to explore, discover, and act on what is meaningful to self and consequential to…

A Day in the Life of Lower School: Inquiry, Innovation, and Impact

January 29, 2025 (January 29, 2025)

At Mount Vernon, Lower School, students in Kindergarten through Grade 5 embody inquiry, innovation, and impact with every step of their journey. From the moment they start their day, their natural curiosity is sparked, their creativity flourishes and their knowledge deepens through meaningful, real-world connections. Students not only master core literacies like reading, writing, and…

Hands-On Physics: Exploring Oscillators in Upper School Optics

January 22, 2025

What exactly is an oscillator? For most of us, that might sound like a question best left to those who are “sciencey.” But for students in Melvin Feng’s Upper School Optics class, it’s a challenge they’ve tackled head-on through hands-on experimentation and collaborative discovery. Oscillators are systems that move or fluctuate between two states in…

Personalized Pathways: Redefining Upper School at Mount Vernon

January 15, 2025 (January 15, 2025)

At Mount Vernon, we’re driven by a bold vision: to empower students to thrive as innovators, leaders, and change-makers so they may design a better world. The launch of Pathways in the Upper School next fall is a powerful step forward in delivering our brand promise. Introduced to rising Grade 9 students and their families…

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