We Emphasize Learning By Doing


Experiential learning,  hands-on projects, and learning through identifying a real-world problem and developing its solution.


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WHY CHOOSE MCDS?

At Monroe Country Day School we focus on the whole child. We believe that children grow in character and become independent thinkers through a balance of rigorous scholarly enterprise and active participation in service-learning and the arts. 


Our students enjoy a small classroom environment where they experience a safe and connected community. Within this secure atmosphere students are freely able to be curious and engage with each other and the academic material. Students receive hands-on classroom experiences that promote creativity and integrated learning. 



MCDS believes in a strong academic environment that prepares students for life and leadership by undergirding content knowledge with the skills needed to think independently and creatively. Round table discussions develop critical thinking skills as students engage with foundational content. Supportive teachers guide students to grapple with the material in ways that promote creative thinking and develop early ability to apply what has been learned. Students rise to the challenge and grow in independence, responsibility, and respect for self and others. The result of this unique approach is true enjoyment of learning. 


MCDS is dedicated to developing community-minded leaders who are strong in mind and character and living as contributing members in their community. 

PreK-5th Grade ELA

Our students enjoy a small classroom environment where they are included as part of a community. It is within this safe and connected atmosphere that students are freely able to be curious and engage with each other and the academic material. These intentionally fostered teacher and student relationships form a close-knit community and are pivotal in developing our school culture. Students rise to the challenge and grow in independence, responsibility, and respect for self and others.


At Monroe Country Day School, students are encouraged to be curious and enjoy the process of discovery. Students experience hands-on learning that promotes creativity and integrated learning. Students engage in discussions where critical thinking skills are used to engage with foundational content. Supportive teachers guide students to grapple with the material in ways that promote creative thinking and develop early ability to apply what they have learned. Students are given the tools to think independently and creatively. The result of this unique approach is true enjoyment of learning.

Middle School ELA

Amplify ELA is a blended curriculum designed specifically for grades 6–8. The heart of every lesson is the text. Amplify enables teachers to teach skills through texts and develop their students’ muscles for building meaning through reading. Students learn to attack any complex text and make observations, grapple with interesting ideas, and find relevance to their world.


In middle school, it’s crucial to create a nurturing academic environment that holds kids to high standards while also addressing some of their basic developmental needs. As young people are forging their identities in the world, they need to be encouraged to question what they encounter, to get plenty of regular feedback, and to be taken seriously as thinkers. Amplify believes in executing principles that lead to true engagement in middle school.

Note: This video of the Middle School Amplify program demonstrates a larger technology component than we have at MCDS.  We use a hybrid program that utilizes both technology and paper text.  The overall discovery process and engagement with the text is what we are hoping you are grasping from the video. 

Saxon Math

Saxon Math provides a learning structure proven to advance students steadily and assuredly to higher levels of understanding. In Saxon Math, concepts from every math strand are woven together and connected throughout the year. The program scaffolds instruction of each concept and continues to review information introduced earlier. This allows students the time and practice to retain essential math concepts to the level of mastery.


The educational approach used in Saxon Math is unique, effective, research-based, and supported by Core Knowledge Sequence Curriculum. The authors of Saxon Math began developing the series by first breaking complex concepts into related increments, recognizing that smaller pieces of information are easier to teach and easier to learn. Then they systematically distributed the instruction, practice, and assessment of those increments across a grade level. Well-established research has shown that this spaced (distributed) approach has produced significantly higher levels of student learning than massed presentations such as those found in programs with a chapter-based approach.

Enrichments

MCDS Welcomes Amanda Rempe our new Drama teacher!


Amanda Rempe has a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Georgia and worked as an accountant in her early career. She has been active in the theater her whole life, including with Monroe’s very own Onstage, where she has shared her talents as a performer, writer, and teacher. You may have seen her as Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, or as Sonia in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.  Amanda has also written numerous sketches and co-wrote the play, Distantly Social. She has spent the last nine years actively teaching youth in multiple subjects, including academics and enrichments. 


Other enrichments include:
  Integrated Agriculture, Health, Physical Education, Service Learning, Art, and STEAM

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