Sep 14, 2022 | All School, Blog, Idiploma, Lower and Middle School, Lower School News, Maker, Middle School News, News, PBL/IBL, Upper School News
In every division at Mount Vernon, students are provided an environment in which they learn collaboratively while engaging in authentic, real-world work. At the same time, the School’s educators have the flexibility to create thoughtful learning environments, bringing...
Sep 14, 2022 | Blog, Middle School News, News, PBL/IBL
Grade 7 Math Teacher and new faculty member April Lucas likes to begin the School year with a project. “Collaboration is key in any classroom especially at the beginning of the school year. Assigning group projects to a class who may not be totally familiar with each...
Aug 31, 2022 | All School, Blog, Lower and Middle School, Lower School News, Middle School News, News, PBL/IBL, Preschool, Preschool News, Upper School News
Convocation is one of the most anticipated events of the school year. This August, our Mount Vernon community came together to receive the charge for the year from our CEO, Head of School, and Head Prefect. This year, the School’s battle cry is “Let’s Do This” whereby...
Aug 31, 2022 | All School, Blog, Design Thinking, Have Fun, Idiploma, Innovation, Innovation Diploma, Middle School News, News, PBL/IBL
Introducing Impact Design Lab (IDL), a Mount Vernon Middle School designed class where students are taught to find problems and ask “How can I fix this?” instead of “I wish this was different”. Over the summer, we sat down with the three educational designers: Todd...
Aug 24, 2022 | All School, Blog, Design Thinking, Have Fun, Lower and Middle School, Lower School News, MVXperts, News, PBL/IBL
Grade 5 is starting the year with a Project-Based Learning (PBL) unit on playground design. Have you or your child ever seen a playground and wondered why it was built the way it was or how it could be improved? This unit encourages students to ask those same...
Oct 6, 2021 | Blog, PBL/IBL, Preschool
At Mount Vernon we believe that students explore to learn. This is prominent throughout the School, especially in Preschool, where discovery is based on curiosity. PK5 students have the added advantage of being able to wonder and wander more intentionally, in Kate...
