May 18, 2022 | Blog, Come to Play, Have Fun, Humanities, Impact, Innovation, Middle School News
How might we prepare all students to be globally competitive and engaged citizen leaders? Over the last month, grade 8 students have had a unique opportunity to experience this piece of Mount Vernon’s mission. The World Peace Game, created and developed by the World...
Apr 27, 2022 | Academic Coverage, Blog, Design Thinking, Idiploma, Impact, Innovation, Innovation Diploma, Inquiry, News
This story was contributed by Brad Droke, Director of Innovation Diploma and was featured in the Spring 2022 SAIS Newsletter. In the spring of 2014, Mount Vernon Ventures at The Mount Vernon School hosted an event called the Council on Innovation, where several groups...
Apr 20, 2022 | All School, Blog, Come to Play, Fine Arts, Impact, Innovation, Inquiry, Press Release
This story was also a press release distributed to local media outlets on 4.20.2022. The Mount Vernon School has been honored with the SupportMusic Merit Award from The NAMM Foundation for its outstanding commitment to music education. The SupportMusic Merit Award...
Apr 13, 2022 | Blog, Idiploma, Innovation, Innovation Diploma, Upper School News
Contributed by the iDiploma Team A signature experience for students during their first year in Innovation Diploma is hosting a dinner. This experience allows learners to get a full lap through the Design Brief Framework while also experiencing the Gold Standard PBL...
Mar 30, 2022 | Blog, Impact, Innovation, Inquiry, Interim, Uncategorized, Upper School News
At the beginning of the School year, Dr. Jacobsen spoke to the Mount Vernon community at Convocation about bridges, specifically around how they are able to connect people and places. Through that, he encouraged us all to be connectors this year – to close gaps,...
Mar 30, 2022 | Blog, Impact, Innovation, Inquiry, Lower School News, Uncategorized
How might we take risks to develop new goods and services to start a business? That was the driving question behind grade 5’s recent economics unit, culminating in a Business Fair, showcasing original products for friends and family. Inspired by the book, The...
