by Gia Medeiros | Jan 7, 2014 | Global Action, Growing Learners, Our Students, Student Work
We’re finding inspiration from great leaders this month in the seventh and eighth grade at Mack. As part of our study of the Mauya and Gupta Indian Empires, our students explored the ways that great leaders acquired and used power and were eventually transformed...
by Gia Medeiros | Dec 18, 2013 | Core Values, Global Action, Growing Learners
This thirteen year old reminds us that if our goal in life is to be happy and healthy, perhaps those subjects should be taught in school. His “hack school” shows us that our job today as parents and educators has truly changed. In a sea of information,...
by Gia Medeiros | Nov 15, 2013 | Compassionate Hearts, Core Values, Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Our Students, Our Team, Uncategorized
Here at Mack we’re big believers in struggle, challenge and feeling good about failure – as a critical opportunity for learning and growth. In this 6 minute TED talk former New York City teacher and success researcher, Angela Lee Duckworth identifies...
by Gia Medeiros | Nov 10, 2013 | Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, Our Team, Student Work
By Lula Guilbert Who knew that studying ecosystems could be so empowering? In our How We Share the Planet unit, students were charged with identifying a problem in an ecosystem and taking an action that would help that ecosystem. The students had to document their...
by Gia Medeiros | Nov 10, 2013 | Community, Global Action, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Student Work
Inspiration strikes in the strangest places. Boulder’s observation beehive started with a conversation at a farmer’s market… Here’s the story from Jenny Bolch, Mack Boulder’s amazing first grade teacher: I met a man at a farmer’s...
by Gia Medeiros | Nov 10, 2013 | Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
By Nicole Krout, Mackintosh Parent The Boulder campus Design Thinking Lab got a fresh facelift last weekend – with the help of the kids! While parents had the bland idea of a somber gray for the design lab, the middle years Geometry students wanted something...