by Darsa Morrow | Sep 25, 2017 | Community, Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students, Student Work
Service Learning is in full swing for Mack-Boulder students, both on campus and in the community. Over the past few weeks, students have ventured off campus in the new ETVs (Experiential education Transportation Vehicles) to learn and serve. As part of their IB unit...
by kristi | May 30, 2017 | Compassionate Hearts, Core Values, Global Action, International Baccalaureate, Littleton, News & Events
Our 1st and 2nd grade class demonstrated the meaning of “compassionate hearts” and a commitment to action in their recent field trip to the Ronald McDonald House and Children’s Hospital. In support of Red Nose Day, the students toured the Ronald...
by Darsa Morrow | Apr 20, 2017 | Community, Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students, Student Work
A group of fifth graders is gathered around a table. On the table is a lamb—a dead one. In class, the students have been learning about how food is transformed from molecule to seed to farm to table and into their bodies, and now they are here at Blackbelly Market to...
by Darsa Morrow | Feb 15, 2017 | Global Action, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students, Student Work
Some kids would like nothing more than to spend extra time at school in the art lab, developing their pottery skills. Others might be passionate about learning how to handle emergencies in the wilderness. Friday Explorations at Mack-Boulder ensure that each student...
by Darsa Morrow | Aug 15, 2016 | Community, Global Action, News & Events, Older Posts
Paul had always dreamed of hiking the Appalachian Trail, but, as it happens to many of us, life got in the way. Paul put taking care of others before his dream. He nursed first his mother, then his father, through their end of life illnesses. After they passed away,...