by Darsa Morrow | Feb 5, 2016 | Community, Littleton, News & Events, Our Students
“I feel like an alien from another planet.” Has your gifted child ever made a statement like that? Have you felt at a loss for how to support him/her? The Different by Design participatory Parent Education event lead by therapist Sharon M. Barnes is for adults with...
by Darsa Morrow | Feb 3, 2016 | Community, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts
“Where are the chairs?” As participants entered the Creating Innovators Workshop last week at Mack Boulder, it was apparent from the beginning that it would be no ordinary affair with someone standing at a podium while lecturing a passive, seated audience. For over...
by Darsa Morrow | Feb 3, 2016 | Community, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
Mackintosh Academy-Boulder recently received a $1.5 million grant to launch a new Mack Scholars program designed to provide ten students from socio- economically disadvantaged backgrounds full financial support to attend Mackintosh Academy through 8th grade. JJ...
by Gia Medeiros | Jan 21, 2016 | Admissions, Community, Growing Learners, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
Take our new virtual tour and see the Mackintosh difference in action. We are so proud of our new admissions video. It is different by design – just like our educational program. The narration is completely student driven and we focus on showing how we...
by Darsa Morrow | Jan 20, 2016 | Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events, Our Students, Student Work
What is that blue line? Why does it drop down for two days and then go up again for five? And what does azimuth mean? These and other questions lit up the room as students and, later, their parents explored the data generated by our solar panel monitoring system....
by Darsa Morrow | Jan 19, 2016 | Community, Keen MInds, News & Events
There’s a certain amount of expected angst and “taking stock” that comes with middle age, and that tendency towards introspection became even more intensified this year when I experienced some sudden-onset, mysterious back pain (nothing says “You’re old!” like back...
