Q&A with Red Cross of Georgia’s Terri Badour, 2019 Women Who Mean Business Honoree

Q&A with Red Cross of Georgia’s Terri Badour, 2019 Women Who Mean Business Honoree

Q: 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 lives with roles that help...
Preschool and Lower School Students Showcase Creativity in Annual Cardboard Challenge

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 tinkering, Cain followed...
Preschool Students Learn About Rosh Hashanah from Upper School Student Ryan Rapaport

Preschool Students Learn About Rosh Hashanah from Upper School Student Ryan Rapaport

Contributed 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 celebrate holidays in our...
Story Slam – A Culmination of How to Tell a Story

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 three to five stories, then...
Convocation 2019: Better Together

Convocation 2019: Better Together

Speech by Head Prefect Katieanne Peterson, Class of 2020 Good morning Dr. Jacobson, Faculty & Staff, Parents and Families, Students, and… the Class of 2020!! My name is Katieanne Peterson and I have the honor of serving the Upper School as Head Prefect this...