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Election Day at Mack-Boulder: Dragon or Robot?
Like many Americans on Election Day, students at Mackintosh Academy-Boulder will also be voting. Instead of choosing a president, representatives, and ballot measures, these students will get a chance to vote for their new school mascot. After Tuesday, their school's...
Leading Beyond the Classroom Walls: The Gift of Sharing
As Colorado’s oldest “school of minds,” now entering our 40th year of serving gifted students in the Front Range, Mackintosh Academy is a treasure trove of creative ideas and innovative strategies for working with gifted learners. One challenge we face is how to free...
Mack-Boulder’s Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum
Adults have words for our feelings—we are joyful, angry, disgusted, afraid or sad, and we even have words like pride and envy to describe complex shades of these feelings. Children feel these emotions no less keenly, even if they can't name them. But it's these names...
Mack Littleton Wins Colorado Environmental Leadership Award
We are excited to announce that Mackintosh Littleton received a Bronze Achievement Award today from the Colorado Environmental Leadership Program. This award recognizes our environmental initiatives including the solar panels, glass recycling and Terracycling...
Join Mack-Boulder for Parent Ed Event on Social Emotional Learning
Mack-Boulder is hosting an amazing Parent Education event this Wednesday, September 21, 2016 5:30-7:00pm. Free and open to the public! K-8th children welcome! See flyer below for RSVP info! Join Kristi Pikiewicz, Mackintosh Academy's Educational Psychologist, for this...
Mack-Boulder: Passion Projects Provide Engaging Start to the School Year
For the past few years, Mack-Boulder has used Responsive Classroom’s First Six Weeks approach to kick-off the beginning of the school year. The approach focuses on: setting goals and expectations with students; creating classroom norms in very setting, learning and...