GO FORTH AND CHANGE THE WORLD Contributor: Chip Houston Class of 2019 – You grew up in a special time – wearing skinny jeans & jeggings, heelys, crocs (with jibbitz), uggs and livestrong bracelets. You played with an xBox 360,...
Read MoreContributor: Brett Jacobsen Inspired to Impact is the theme of this edition of the MVmag. While there are so many inspirational moments of impact to mention, I want to take this opportunity to share a few of them. CLASS OF 2019 The...
Read MoreContributor: Harriett Middleton New Delta Client Innovation Diploma (ID) is an original program created by Mount Vernon enabling students to work with external partners helping them create solutions for lingering problems. In ID, when com...
Read MoreContributor: Eileen Fennelly A Whole New Direction I was walking through the Kindergarten commons and heard our youngest students singing an original song about the elephants at the zoo. They had recently shared with me that they were rese...
Read MoreA STUDENT-DRIVEN INITIATIVE The Ground Floor began as a year-long Upper School student-driven initiative known as iProject. In 2017, a group of Mount Vernon sophomores had an idea to create a coffee shop that their peers and teachers woul...
Read MoreMount Vernon (MV): What are some of the notable projects Middle School took on this year? Amy Wilkes (AW): We worked on several projects including a few on “heavy” subjects. Grade 5 has been experimenting with their own Gen...
Read MoreContributor: Erin Carey CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Believing school can and should connect learning to real-world experiences, we are excited to partner with organizations and agencies in the city of Sandy Springs to encourage children to help not o...
Read MoreA COLLISION COURSE When Dr. Brande Jones and Ms. Jenn Lloyd collaborated to create Ecological Rhetoric: When Science and Literature Collide, a year-long Project Based Learning (PBL) course was designed to impact our l...
Read MoreContributor: Kate Parker When ESPN reached out to me to shoot and write an article for them showcasing female athletes as empowered and confident role models, I immediately was all in. This is exactly the kind of work that I love to do...
Read MoreContributor: Shayna Cooke Project-Based Learning. Design Thinking. Place-Based Learning. Cooperative Learning. Differentiated Instruction. Grit. Growth Mindset. In an era of educational buzzwords and rapidly changing paradigms within educa...
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