by Joe Pausback | Sep 24, 2014 | Community, Core Values, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events
By Joe Pausback, Littleton 5/6th Grade Teacher “I have no time to teach creativity.” – Anonymous Teacher We live in an age that is saturated with information. As teachers and parents we should contemplate the possibility that content standards have become as obsolete...
by Gia Medeiros | Sep 23, 2014 | Community, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students, Uncategorized
By Jim Parker, 4th Grade Lead Teacher, Mackintosh Boulder In school, we ask our children every day to do things that push their comfort zones. In order to be able to practice the IB Learner Profile traits of being a Risk Taker, Principled, Inquirer, etc., our students...
by Gia Medeiros | Aug 27, 2014 | Admissions, Community, Keen MInds, News & Events, Our Students
What is giftedness? Don’t all children have gifts? Is it about achievement, IQ or the potential to do great things? Or is it a way of being that creates qualitatively different life experiences? What are gifted children’s unique educational and emotional needs? ...
by Gia Medeiros | Aug 19, 2014 | Community, Growing Learners, News & Events
By Diane Dunne, Head of School, Littleton Campus He explained to me with great insistence that every question possessed a power that did not lie in the answer. Elie Wiesel (Night) As students all over the country are returning to school, I am once again filled with...
by Gia Medeiros | Aug 14, 2014 | Community, Growing Learners
By JJ Morrow, Boulder Head of School We’ve all been there. There’s only a week left of summer. Your kids have been up until 10 pm with the summer sun. You usually trade bathing suits for pajamas sometime around mid-morning. You’ve been playing at the pool rather than...
by Gia Medeiros | Apr 25, 2014 | Community, Growing Learners, News & Events, Older Posts, Summer
Summer can be a wonderful (and we hate to admit stressful!) time for families with school aged children — especially when your kids are bright, sensitive, high energy and often highly gifted (like so many in the metro area)! Mackintosh Academy...