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Preschool and Lower School Students Showcase Creativity in Annual Cardboard Challenge

This 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...

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Grade 8 Students Explore Curiosities About World War I After Reading Kipling’s Choice

This semester in Grade 8 Humanities with David Leflar, students are studying World War I by reading the book Kipling's Choice. Kipling's Choice is a fictionalized story of a boy who grew up the son of a famous writer, living a charmed life, to t...

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Story Slam – A Culmination of How to Tell a Story

During 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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Commitment to Faculty Learning

Today marked the first 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 curriculum, assessment practices, teach...

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Tyler Robinson, Class of 2022, Promoted to Cadet Airman First Class with the DeKalb County Cadet Squadron

Last week, Tyler Robinson, Class of 2022, was promoted to Cadet Airman First Class with the DeKalb County Cadet Squadron. Tyler commits three hours each Thursday to volunteer with the squadron, in addition to his flight time. Over the summer, Tyl...

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Helping Hands Day 2019: Grateful to Serve

Last Wednesday, September 11, the Mount Vernon community joined together in honoring those who lost their lives, survived and responded to the tragic events of 9/11. This year, each division participated in a donation drive, and then packaged the it...

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