by Darsa Morrow | Apr 3, 2015 | Community, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
When my oldest son was in fifth grade, all fall and winter he dreaded the spring “human development” unit. Having to publicly discuss puberty with your teachers and peers? “Awk-ward,” he insisted. The word “puberty” alone, when uttered, seemed enough to cause him...
by Gia Medeiros | Mar 6, 2015 | Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts
Mackintosh Academy recognizes that gifted and creative children benefit deeply from a community of peers. Your child’s day does not end at 3:30 – and often neither does yours! And many parents see after school hours as a time to explore, engage and enrich learning ,...
by Darsa Morrow | Feb 27, 2015 | Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Our Students
Three families, six adults, eight young boys, three dogs: one cabin in the woods. I knew it was going to be a whole lot of joyful chaos once we arrived, but in the car on the way up to the mountains, all I could think about was traffic, icy roads, and the many, MANY...
by Sharon Muench | Feb 22, 2015 | International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds
*Bold words are IB Learning Profile and (PYP) attitudes, characteristics all within the IB community value and strive toward developing. The International Baccalaureate (IB) curricular framework encourages interdisciplinary planning. Science and technology...
by Darsa Morrow | Jan 22, 2015 | Keen MInds, Littleton, Littleton 7th & 8th Grade, News & Events
Imagine a detective show in which a thief steals chloroplasts from a plant cell rendering it unable to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. When Mackintosh Littleton teacher Alison Weems challenged her middle school students to design creative presentations...
by Gia Medeiros | Jan 11, 2015 | Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Older Posts, Our Students, Student Work
By Jay Droeger, 7/8th Grade Lead Teacher Our Seventh and Eighth Grade Design Class tackled the challenge of creating a better mouse trap – live and cruelty-free! With our school located on an amazing 26 acres of land, including fields, a grove, a pond and...