by Darsa Morrow | Mar 16, 2016 | Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
Children are born natural scientists with an insatiable thirst for information. The evidence of this is abundant from infancy to age three where exploration often involves tasting or touching just about everything; this is expanded upon by the ages of inquiry where...
by Darsa Morrow | Feb 17, 2016 | Growing Learners, News & Events, Our Students
My gifted kids love to explore. This tendency has resulted in many hours of glorious time on beaches, in woods, on lakeshores, and in our backyard, even. Given open-ended time in a remotely stimulating environment, we’ve never heard the words, “I’m bored,” come out of...
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 | Oct 14, 2015 | Community, Littleton, Our Students
This past summer I had dinner with friends I don’t see all that often. We chatted about a wide variety of topics, and naturally, our kids were among the many things we discussed. One of the women had gone through a difficult year with her son’s now former school....
by Darsa Morrow | Aug 28, 2015 | Community, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
UPCOMING PARENT TALK AND WORKSHOPS – Mackintosh Academy is pleased to partner with award-winning educator and retired science teacher John Paull to help you learn to use science to inspire your child(ren)’s curiosity and re-ignite your own sense of discovery in...