At Mackintosh Academy, gifted and creative students truly thrive to their full potential. Our students crave the challenge of meaningful questions and real-world problems worth solving. Our inquiry-based IB curriculum incorporates challenging academics and also integrates the arts, physical education, world language, and technology through interdisciplinary learning.
We believe academic knowledge is only part of the big picture. We seek to grow courageous risk takers, good communicators, and powerful innovators who meet the world wholeheartedly and bring a sense of balance to all they do. Social-emotional growth is a daily practice, integrated into our curriculum.
Our IB curriculum encourages design thinking, innovation and sustainability so that students can become meaningful contributors and socially responsible citizens of the world. We strive every day to be a wise, compassionate, collaborative, innovative, diverse and sustainable center for teaching and learning.
An official International Baccalaureate (IB) World School since 2006, Mackintosh Academy joins 5000 schools in 150 countries worldwide in preparing today’s students for tomorrow’s world through inquiry-based learning.
Our IB curriculum:
At Mackintosh, we believe the questions are as important as the answers. Inquiry is at the heart of Mackintosh Academy’s philosophy.
Students and teachers at Mackintosh never stop asking why, so what, andnow what?
Lines of inquiry provide a roadmap for students to travel, while optimizing knowledge, curiosity, and creative learning. Inquiry-based curriculum hones students’ self-initiative, organization, collaboration, communication, informational literacy, and high-level thinking skills.
Mackintosh Academy’s IB program focuses on units of inquiry spread across the primary and middle-school years. Each unit includes a theme of study explored across multiple disciplines, from reading and writing, to math, sciences, social studies, arts, world language, and even PE. Each unit culminates in student projects, which are the hallmark of our program.