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Classroom Spotlight: Integrating Social Emotional Learning
“I don’t feel like my group is hearing me.” This could be the sentiment of most any adult debriefing after a challenging day at work. It was actually something heard by teacher Jim Parker in Mack-Boulder’s fourth grade classroom. One of his students was having a...
Put *Your* Oxygen Mask on First: Parenting Gifted Children
Three families, six adults, eight young boys, three dogs: one cabin in the woods. I knew it was going to be a whole lot of joyful chaos once we arrived, but in the car on the way up to the mountains, all I could think about was traffic, icy roads, and the many, MANY...
An Integrated Approach to Learning Science- In School And Out
I miraculously remained motionless as an enormous dirt-colored spider lumbered across the open notebook in my lap; its jointed legs and numerous eyes and what looked like giant jaws were extra startling against the white paper. But although it felt like an invading...
How Does IB Incorporate Science and Technology?
*Bold words are IB Learning Profile and (PYP) attitudes, characteristics all within the IB community value and strive toward developing. The International Baccalaureate (IB) curricular framework encourages interdisciplinary planning. Science and technology...
Campus Spotlight: 3D Printer Inspires Creativity in Littleton
What happens when a humanities-focused student meets the latest technology? The students of Mackintosh Littleton recently received the gift of a 3D printer. As teachers began exploring the multitude of ways to incorporate the printer into the curriculum, students were...
IB and the Gifted Child
Nearly ten years go, Mackintosh Academy's leadership recognized the power of the the International Baccalaureate Program for the gifted child. The IB Primary Years Program (PYP) and Middle Years Program (MYP) provide the gifted child with a context for learning that...