by kristi | May 19, 2017 | Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events, Parent Education
By Kristi Holmes Espineira, Mackintosh Littleton Director of Advancement You can’t tell from today’s surprise spring snowstorm, but summer is just around the corner! Mack students will soon go home with their summer reading lists, and solo reading is an...
by kristi | May 16, 2017 | Growing Learners, International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds, Littleton, LIttleton 5th & 6th Grade, News & Events, Our Students
On April 26, 2017, Mackintosh Academy Littleton 6th graders presented their International Baccalaureate Primary Years Exhibition projects to parents, teachers, faculty, staff, and students. Known around campus as “The X,” the Exhibition is the culmination of the...
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 | Apr 20, 2017 | Community, Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students, Student Work
We are the ones who can make it happen We are the ones who can make it right It’s up to us It’s not too late to try Every day is Earth Day* There is something especially heartbreaking about youth setting out to fix problems they had nothing to do with creating....
by kristi | Apr 20, 2017 | Compassionate Hearts, Core Values, Global Action, Growing Learners, International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds, News & Events, Our Students
By Sharon Muench, Mack Littleton IB Programme Coordinator The International Baccalaureate Programmes’ framework nurtures not only students, but citizens of the world. Students are taught to be active and engaged participants in the classroom. They are not simply...