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Intro to Gifted Talk: Why Gifted Kids Act Like This and What You Can Do
Intro to Gifted We're hosting a free talk, open to all parents who've ever wondered what this "gifted" thing is all about! Sometimes the children who make up the top 2% of intellectual potential are quite a mystery. They can be very sensitive, but other times...
Free Play for the Win! Supporting Your Child’s Executive Function Development
By Katie Bellon, PhD, Denver Integrative Assessment Could more free time help your child be more organized in school? Can unstructured play help children do better socially? You might be surprised to find that the answer is yes. You may have heard “executive...
Global Action in Africa: A Mack Alum’s Journey
Global Action. This phrase is embedded into the heart of our mission statement at Mackintosh Academy. As an International Baccalaureate World school, global action is a key part of our educational program. We hope that our students will continue to take action to make...
Mack Littleton to Host International Baccalaureate Evaluation Visit
On February 13 and 14, you may notice some new faces on our Littleton campus. These visitors will be part of the International Baccalaureate site visit team - trained evaluators whose task will be assessing how our Mackintosh staff implement the International...
Community Project Offers Service Learning Opportunity for Littleton Eighth Graders
Service learning allows students to move beyond the classroom walls into a real-world learning experience that can have impact not only on the students themselves, but on the larger community. This is one of the goals of the Middle Years Programme Community Project,...
Hands-On History: Third and Fourth Graders Travel Through Time
Mackintosh Academy Littleton third and fourth graders recently completed their “Where We Are in Time and Place” International Baccalaureate unit of inquiry, focusing on the history of Ancient Greece. This unit invited them to explore how the people, beliefs and values...