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Finding a Right Fit School – Inspiration Session Friday 11/22 10 am @ Mackintosh Boulder
How can you decode a classroom to see more deeply into a school's philosophy? More importantly, how do you figure out if that school is a right fit for your student? School choice is both a wonderful blessing and a difficult process in Boulder. As parents, we are...
Holiday Book Fair Extravaganza (Dec 10 Boulder, Feb 12 Littleton)
By Christi Dobbins, Mackintosh Littleton Parent and Sue Fagan, Boulder Parent Council President The annual Mackintosh Bookfair combines a fabulous night of student and teacher performances with the opportunity to grow our classroom libraries and raise money for the...
Growing Grit: The Key to Successful Kids
Here at Mack we're big believers in struggle, challenge and feeling good about failure - as a critical opportunity for learning and growth. In this 6 minute TED talk former New York City teacher and success researcher, Angela Lee Duckworth identifies "grit" as more...
Empowering Students to Make a Difference Through Project-Based Learning
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...
Boulder Campus Abuzz about Bees
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 market in Utah that had an...
Fun with Fibonacci
Studying plants in Mack's 2/3, you can't help but have fun with Fibonacci. And our kids are in good company. See this TED Talk on the weird and wonderful world of math featuring our favorite set of numbers. We hope our kids someday might love math as much as this man....