by Gia Medeiros | Aug 25, 2014 | Growing Learners, Older Posts
by Kathryn Kyd, Kindergarten Teacher, Mackintosh Boulder “Children are in love with life, and it is their first love. All its color and movement attract their eager attention.” – Poet Rabindranath Tagore. Play is the natural way children feed their curiosity...
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...
by Gia Medeiros | Apr 13, 2014 | Community, Global Action, Growing Learners, Littleton, News & Events, Our Students, Student Work
By Diane Dunne, Mackintosh Littleton Middle Years Teacher Our two Mack Littleton World Affairs Challenge teams came in first and second in last weekend’s competition at Regis University on the topic of Water, Water, Water! “The One Drop Wonders”...
by Gia Medeiros | Apr 6, 2014 | Admissions, Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, Testimonials
By Stacey Anderson, Head of School, Mackintosh Academy Littleton Campus Please enjoy this short piece, taken from an article published in the Duke University Digest of Gifted Research in regard to the International Baccalaureate Program. Although the article...