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 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 27, 2014 | Admissions, Community, Keen MInds, News & Events, Our Students
What is giftedness? Don’t all children have gifts? Is it about achievement, IQ or the potential to do great things? Or is it a way of being that creates qualitatively different life experiences? What are gifted children’s unique educational and emotional needs? ...
by Gia Medeiros | Apr 6, 2014 | Admissions, Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, Testimonials
By Stacey Anderson, Head of School, Mackintosh Academy Littleton Campus Please enjoy this short piece, taken from an article published in the Duke University Digest of Gifted Research in regard to the International Baccalaureate Program. Although the article...
by Gia Medeiros | Mar 22, 2014 | Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, Older Posts, Our Students, Student Work
In 2/3 this week, students shared wonderful inventions they designed and built for their summative projects in the Simple Machines Unit. Wow, what these kids built was phenomenal! We saw everything from a dog biscuit dispenser to an ironing, folding machine, a jewel...
by Gia Medeiros | Mar 7, 2014 | Community, Global Action, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students, Student Work
Zach Olkin started building robots just three years ago in the 4th grade when his mom launched a lego robotics club at Mackintosh Boulder. Just last week his Vex IQ Robotics team won a “triple crown” at the Vex Robotics competition – for teamwork,...