by kristi | Dec 15, 2016 | Community, Core Values, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events
By Diane Dunne, Littleton Head of School Holiday traditions such as lights, music, food, and annual gift-giving notwithstanding, our fast-paced Facebook world demands we travel light, discarding old products and pursuits to embrace the innovation and creative change...
by kristi | Dec 15, 2016 | Core Values, Growing Learners, International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds, News & Events, Our Students, Parent Education
by Alice Shi Kembel (proud mother of three boys currently attending Mackintosh Academy’s Boulder Campus) Our house is filled with trash. Not because I’m a terrible housekeeper, not because my husband shirks his weekly duty of taking out the trash, but because...
by kristi | Nov 16, 2016 | Compassionate Hearts, Core Values, Growing Learners
By Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW, http://therapistforsensitiveandgifted.com/ Social and emotional needs are crucial to the well-being of gifted students. When these needs are not met, the result may be low self-esteem, anxiety or depression. It is possible for gifted...
by Darsa Morrow | Nov 14, 2016 | Community, Global Action, Growing Learners, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
What is the environmental impact of food transportation? What does it mean to eat or cook locally? Does everyone have enough food and access to healthy food? How can we help others who may not have enough food? The Mackintosh Academy-Boulder 4th and 5th grade students...
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 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...