by Darsa Morrow | Apr 7, 2016 | Community, Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students, Student Work
Since becoming a mother, I’ve always joked that my only motherhood goal is to raise KSANs: Kind Smart Adorable Nerds—children who are nice, who value education, and who enjoy the finer things in life like, say, reading. Really, though, the emphasis was on kind… if I...
by Darsa Morrow | Apr 6, 2016 | Community, Global Action, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events, Our Students
Mackintosh Littleton 6th grade student Harvey Rainwater, son of Mackintosh Academy board member Therese Rainwater, tied for 6th place in the State of Colorado National Geographic Geography Bee held in Denver, Colorado, April 1, 2016. 104 Colorado students...
by Darsa Morrow | Apr 4, 2016 | Growing Learners, Littleton, News & Events, Our Students, Student Work
It wasn’t even St. Patrick’s Day when Mack-Littleton families, alumni, and neighbors gathered on Sunday, March 6th for a Community Salad and to celebrate green-a greenhouse bursting with organic lettuces, a group of seventh and eighth graders inspired to...
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 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...
