When 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 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 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...
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...
Read MoreIt comes as no surprise that Design Thinking (DT) is not only infused through learning experiences in Preschool through grade 12 at Mount Vernon, but embraced, practiced, executed, and appreciated throughout, as well. We are Mount Vernon. The K...
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