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What Do Gifted Children Need?
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? Can...
The Power of Play-Based Learning (PBL)
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 and...
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Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Encouraging Inquiry in Education
By Diane Dunne, Head of School, Littleton Campus He explained to me with great insistence that every question possessed a power that did not lie in the answer. Elie Wiesel (Night) As students all over the country are returning to school, I am once again filled with...
Are You Ready? Six Tips for Easing Your Family Back to School
By JJ Morrow, Boulder Head of School We’ve all been there. There’s only a week left of summer. Your kids have been up until 10 pm with the summer sun. You usually trade bathing suits for pajamas sometime around mid-morning. You’ve been playing at the pool rather than...
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Segue to Summer
Summer can be a wonderful (and we hate to admit stressful!) time for families with school aged children -- especially when your kids are bright, sensitive, high energy and often highly gifted (like so many in the metro area)! Mackintosh Academy...
Hot Off the Press: A Sweep for Mackintosh at World Affairs Challenge 2014!
By Diane Dunne, Mackintosh Littleton Middle Years Teacher Our two Mack Littleton World Affairs Challenge teams came in first and second in last weekend's competition at Regis University on the topic of Water, Water, Water! "The One Drop Wonders" (Marnix, Anisa,...