by Marketing Department | Oct 20, 2016 | Core Values, International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds, Littleton, Our Team
As Colorado’s oldest “school of minds,” now entering our 40th year of serving gifted students in the Front Range, Mackintosh Academy is a treasure trove of creative ideas and innovative strategies for working with gifted learners. One challenge we face is how to free...
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 Staff | May 20, 2016 | Growing Learners, International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds, Littleton, Littleton 7th & 8th Grade, News & Events, Our Students, Student Work, Uncategorized
In April, six 7th grade Mack Littleton students were selected as one team out of 90 applicants to participate in the 7th annual Weather and Science Day at Coors Field! On May 11, 2016, from 10:30-11:30am Katie French, Ally Procopio, Ella Schmitt, Gillian Schwanitz,...
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...
