High School eSports made its Varsity debut in 13 states in the Fall of the 2018-2019 school year and Mount Vernon was one of the first schools to get onboard. Since then, the competition has gone nationwide to include over 13,000 schools and 80,...
Read MoreThis morning faculty and staff participated in the third late-start RDI (Research, Design, Iteration) day of the school year, where all of our faculty and staff collided across divisions and disciplines for a deep learning around topics such as curr...
Read MoreContributed by Lower School Science and Research and Design Teacher Eileen Fennelly Fifth Grade Research and Design was on the road again this week. Our architecture and interior design groups connected to visit Brock Built Homes at their Design...
Read MoreContributed by Head of Upper School Chip Houston LEARNING & INNOVATIONWe continue to see collaborations across disciplines and courses, which is awesome! Our students have been off campus at Georgia Supreme Court, Anne Frank Museum, King’s...
Read MoreThis morning faculty and staff participated in the second late-start RDI (Research, Design, Iteration) day of the school year, where all of our faculty and staff collided across divisions and disciplines for a deep learning around topics such as cur...
Read MoreQ: You’ve been named one of Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Women Who Mean Business 2019. How can other women leaders win similar accolades for their achievements? A: I believe that women should seek to align their professional and personal...
Read MoreThis year, the theme for the annual Cardboard Challenge was How Might We be Better Together, by Sharing the Gift of Play? This year's challenge was inspired by a young boy named Cain who lives in L.A. With a love for building things and tin...
Read MoreThe Arrival is a graphic novel by Shaun Tan. It is at heart, a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long-forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking b...
Read MoreContributed by Preschool Teacher Debbie Markland As part of our MVIFI 2019 Summer Grant Team work on essentializing learning outcomes, the Preschool Grant Team (myself, Molly Collier, Kyla Ravenell and Sunshine Osella) redesigned how we cele...
Read MoreDuring Mod 1 in the Upper School, a group of Innovation Diploma students learned how to write and share their own stories in How to Tell a Story, a class led by MV teachers Brad Droke and Krista Fancher. Throughout the Mod, students wrote th...
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