by Gia Medeiros | Jan 7, 2014 | Global Action, Growing Learners, Our Students, Student Work
We’re finding inspiration from great leaders this month in the seventh and eighth grade at Mack. As part of our study of the Mauya and Gupta Indian Empires, our students explored the ways that great leaders acquired and used power and were eventually transformed...
by Gia Medeiros | Dec 12, 2013 | Littleton, Our Students, Student Work
By Diane Dunne, Littleton Middle Years Teacher What better way to learn about ancient civilizations than to devise one of your own? This is exactly the challenge that our imaginative seventh and eighth graders accepted as the culminating project of our Origins unit in...
by Gia Medeiros | Nov 10, 2013 | Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, Our Team, Student Work
By Lula Guilbert Who knew that studying ecosystems could be so empowering? In our How We Share the Planet unit, students were charged with identifying a problem in an ecosystem and taking an action that would help that ecosystem. The students had to document their...
by Gia Medeiros | Nov 10, 2013 | Community, Global Action, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Student Work
Inspiration strikes in the strangest places. Boulder’s observation beehive started with a conversation at a farmer’s market… Here’s the story from Jenny Bolch, Mack Boulder’s amazing first grade teacher: I met a man at a farmer’s...
by Gia Medeiros | Nov 10, 2013 | Growing Learners, Littleton, Our Students, Student Work
By Beth Steklac, Littleton Middle Years Teacher One of the best moments in a teacher’s day is sharing in learning that goes above and beyond the expectations of a lesson plan. As an IB teacher, I am well aware that students learn best when they can construct their...