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Mustangs are Inspired to Impact Others

by Anne Katz | Jun 10, 2019 | All, Focus Issue 5, Issue 5 | 0 |

At Mount Vernon, the lines are being blurred between school and real life. When MV students are presented with opportunities, they discover courage.

OUR NEXT CHAPTER: A MESSAGE FROM YOUR HEAD OF SCHOOL

by Brett Jacobsen | Jun 3, 2019 | All, Focus Issue 5, Issue 5 | 0 |

The Mount Vernon community celebrated the Class of 2019, our 13th graduating class. Affirming their work of inquiry, innovation, and impact, these students differentiated themselves from the millions of students across the country.

Taking Flight: Students Inspire Fortune 500 Company

by Harriett Middleton | May 29, 2019 | All, Continuum Issue 5, Issue 5, Real World | 0 |

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 companies come to Mount Vernon and propose a problem to us, we call that relationship a design brief.

Expert Connections with Long-Term Effects: Lower School Learns from a Multitude of Professionals

by Eileen Fennelly | May 28, 2019 | All, Feature Issue 5, Issue 5 | 0 |

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 researching the African Elephants and they could not wait to tell me what they had learned.

More Than An Exhibit: Grade 3 Explores Social Justice

by Rikki Hagerty | May 15, 2019 | All, Continuum Issue 5, Issue 5 | 0 |

How might we curate an exhibit or experience that evokes empathy with others and builds awareness of social justice?

Letter from the Editor: Inspiration & Influencers

by Anne Katz | Jan 28, 2019 | All, Focus Issue 4, Issue 4 | 0 |

At Mount Vernon, we choose to make our thinking visual and actionable. We envision learning where children are seen and heard. We envision transparency in the learning journey — process, product, and progress. We welcome the chance to wrestle with voices and perspectives that challenge our assumptions. We envision learning in which our trust for one another strengthens our sense for individual freedom, autonomy, and interdependence.

Hannah Hagenau Resume

by Cooper Van Rossum | Jan 25, 2019 | All | 0 |

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Inspired Spaces

by Trey Boden | Jan 24, 2019 | All, Issue 4, Next Issue 4 | 0 |

As a leader of leaders I have had the opportunity to help organizations think about their branding, identity, and ethos to determine and design their visual strategy as it relates to their mission and purpose in the world.

Hannah Hagenau: A Mount Vernon Pillar

by Anne Katz | Jan 23, 2019 | All, Continuum Issue 4, Issue 4 | 0 |

Hannah Hagenau is a pillar within the Mount Vernon community, at just 18 years old. As a member of the Class of 2019, this mustang has traveled the world, leaving goodness in her wake.

Pursuing Passions: Same Lane, Different Directions

by Anne Katz | Jan 23, 2019 | All, Voices Issue 4 | 0 |

When Stuart Glassic and Harrison Williams met each other at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, little did they know that several years later they would help lead the construction project for Mount Vernon’s new Upper School, together.

When Passion Takes Flight & the Influenced Becomes an Influencer

by Anne Katz | Jan 22, 2019 | All, Issue 4, Voices Issue 4 | 0 |

When I was probably eight or nine years old I was really into trains, and wanted a train simulator game for my birthday. Boring in retrospect, but what did I know.

When inspiration Becomes a Reality: The Made in MV Wall

by Cooper Van Rossum | Jan 21, 2019 | All, Continuum Issue 4, Issue 4 | 0 |

When grade 2 teachers took a pre-planning expedition to Clarkston, GA, they visited a mural in Adam’s Plaza created by Shannon Willow titled “Human Family Forest.”