Nov 6, 2019 | Build People Up, Come to Play, courage over comfort, Design Thinking, Fine Arts, Have Fun, Highlights, Humanities, IMAMUSTANG, Impact, Innovation, Innovation Diploma, Inquiry, Maker, Maverick, Multiplier, Prefects, Share the Well, Uncategorized, Upper School News
Contributed 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 Mural Exhibit and Mount...
Oct 30, 2019 | Build People Up, Come to Play, courage over comfort, Humanities, IMAMUSTANG, Impact, Inquiry, Lower School News, Maverick, Multiplier, PBL/IBL, Share the Well
Contributed by Lower School Science and Research and Design Teacher Eileen Fennelly Fifth Grade Research and Design is a new learning opportunity for our students. It is a capstone project to explore and research what the students are interested in after...
Oct 16, 2019 | Come to Play, courage over comfort, Design Thinking, Have Fun, Highlights, Humanities, IMAMUSTANG, Innovation, Inquiry, Lower School News, Maker, Maverick, Multiplier, PBL/IBL, Preschool News, Uncategorized
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...
Oct 16, 2019 | Humanities, Impact, Inquiry, Maverick, Middle School News, Multiplier, PBL/IBL
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 the trenches...
Oct 2, 2019 | Build People Up, Come to Play, courage over comfort, Have Fun, Humanities, IMAMUSTANG, Inquiry, Lower School News, Multiplier, Share the Well, Uncategorized
Contributed by Head of Grade 2 Melanie Thompson G2 spent time the first few weeks of school reading about and researching the power of our bodies and our brains. We discussed how the food we eat fuels our bodies and our brains; thus, how can we make healthy choices?...
Sep 25, 2019 | Build People Up, Come to Play, courage over comfort, Have Fun, Highlights, Humanities, IMAMUSTANG, Impact, Innovation Diploma, Inquiry, Maker, Maverick, Multiplier, News, Share the Well, Uncategorized, Upper School News
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...
