Contributed by Katie Cain This year, I was asked to teach a brand new connections class in sixth grade centered on Digital Citizenship. Sixth grade is an especially important time to offer this course. Although only about 60% of my students have...
Read MoreWhen Director of Visual and Performing Arts Matthew Neylon attended the 2017-2018 session at School for Art Leaders at Crystal Bridges, he met former Disney illustrator Niki Stewart, who immediately became a friend. When he returned to MV, h...
Read MoreGrade 6 math students design tiny houses from the bottom up. "When are we ever going to use this?" has been overheard in math classes for decades. For students in Mrs. Lux's grade 6 math class, however, with a goal to design a tiny house to s...
Read MoreOver 30 players, coaches, and parents from the Mustang basketball program, led by Coach T, volunteered as a group at the 2019 Big Peach Slam Jam Wheelchair Basketball Tournament. The 3rd Annual BlazeSports America Big Peach Slam Jam Wheelcha...
Read MoreMiddle School Honors Celebration Wednesday, January 16, 2019 Glenn Campus Gymnasium 8:15 - 9:15 a.m. Prelude……………………….………………………………………………………………………………….Student Instru...
Read MoreThis story is part 2 in a series that started with "Mustang Wins Essay Contest For the City of Atlanta" The campus of Mount Vernon has changed significantly over the last few years with expansion and improvements being made on both sides of Mount Ve...
Read MoreWhen students in Ben Hendry's and Margaret Gunter's grade 5 math classes were asked to create 3-dimensional models related to something about which they were passionate, they weren't yet sure how it would relate to math. The only stipulation for the...
Read MoreMount Vernon's 2018 Christmas Arts Showcase was performed at the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center. Over 250 MV artists in grades 2 through 12 presented traditional, contemporary, and original works to a packed house. With MVArts flair, all the wo...
Read MoreThis year, our MV community contributed over 1,200 toys (almost 200 more than last year!) to the United States Marine Corps' Toys for Tots toy drive. Your generosity is overwhelming. #sharethewell [gallery columns="1" size="large" ids="26339,263...
Read MoreKristen Pisacreta: Seventh Grade Literature Project Based Learning A Teacher's Reflection on Courageous Conversations This semester students read the novel Monster, by Walter Dean Myers and explored what it feels like to be silenced in our judicia...
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