by Darsa Morrow | Oct 18, 2016 | Community, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
Adults have words for our feelings—we are joyful, angry, disgusted, afraid or sad, and we even have words like pride and envy to describe complex shades of these feelings. Children feel these emotions no less keenly, even if they can’t name them. But it’s...
by Darsa Morrow | Sep 19, 2016 | Community, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
Mack-Boulder is hosting an amazing Parent Education event this Wednesday, September 21, 2016 5:30-7:00pm. Free and open to the public! K-8th children welcome! See flyer below for RSVP info! Join Kristi Pikiewicz, Mackintosh Academy’s Educational Psychologist,...
by Darsa Morrow | Sep 16, 2016 | Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students, Student Work
For the past few years, Mack-Boulder has used Responsive Classroom’s First Six Weeks approach to kick-off the beginning of the school year. The approach focuses on: setting goals and expectations with students; creating classroom norms in very setting, learning and...
by Darsa Morrow | Aug 15, 2016 | Community, Global Action, News & Events, Older Posts
Paul had always dreamed of hiking the Appalachian Trail, but, as it happens to many of us, life got in the way. Paul put taking care of others before his dream. He nursed first his mother, then his father, through their end of life illnesses. After they passed away,...
by Darsa Morrow | Apr 21, 2016 | Global Action, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students, Uncategorized
Mack-Boulder sixth graders recently returned from an amazing trip organized by the World Leadership School. The trip was WLS’s Collaborative Leadership Program set in Pueblo de Cochiti, which is located 35 miles southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is the main town...