by Gia Medeiros | Nov 18, 2014 | Community, Core Values, Growing Learners, News & Events, Older Posts
By Darsa Morrow You know what makes a really satisfying sound? An overripe apple smashing against a brick wall. Many Mackintosh students discovered that sensation this fall as the school apple trees bore a bumper crop of fruit. And, as you might imagine, students...
by Gia Medeiros | Oct 22, 2014 | Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Our Team, Student Work
By Carolina Mirrales and Maria Beatriz Cardona “Learning to speak another’s language means taking one’s place in the human community. It means reaching out to other’s across cultural and linguistic boundaries. Language is far more that a system to be explained. It is...
by Lula Guilbert | Oct 7, 2014 | Admissions, Community, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events, Uncategorized
By Lula Guilbert, 3rd/4th Grade Lead Teacher, Littleton My daughter began her education in our local public school. She had been identified gifted in kindergarten, but there was little that they did for younger students. After advocating for her to have advanced math...
by Gia Medeiros | Sep 30, 2014 | Growing Learners, News & Events, Older Posts
Join us next Tuesday, October 7th at 6:30 with Karina Black, Skills for Life OTR/L! Being organized is about more than colorful filing systems. Whether managing time, self or materials, each person ultimately must develop a system that works for his or her brain. Join...
by Joe Pausback | Sep 24, 2014 | Community, Core Values, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events
By Joe Pausback, Littleton 5/6th Grade Teacher “I have no time to teach creativity.” – Anonymous Teacher We live in an age that is saturated with information. As teachers and parents we should contemplate the possibility that content standards have become as obsolete...
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...