6 Unexpected Signs that Your Preschool or Kindergartener Might be Gifted
How can you tell if a young child might thrive in a gifted preschool or kindergarten? We all know the stereotype of young gifted children – nerdy prodigies who began…
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Why Mackintosh Academy’s K-8 Model is Ideal for Middle School Students
Spoiler alert: parenting adolescents isn’t any easier than walking the floor at midnight with a newborn. The belief that parents can worry less as their children age washes away as…
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Mack-Boulder Spotlight: Meaningful Service Learning Through IB Community Projects
Imagine being able to reconnect today with someone you helped through service twenty years ago. Better still, imagine that not only has that person grown to be an amazing adult,…
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Boulder Spotlight: 4th Grade Presents Stone Soup as Rock Opera
In Performing Arts class at Mack-Boulder, the cornerstone event for each grade is the work-share. Work-shares are assemblies that are typically an amalgam of a performance, a play, and a demonstration,…
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Mack-Boulder Middle School Makeover!
While the Mack-Boulder Middle School has evolved and grown each year since the campus began, this fall has seen its most advanced iteration yet—physically and programmatically! Physical space – This summer,…
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Boulder Spotlight: Service Learning is Off to a Great Start
Service Learning is in full swing for Mack-Boulder students, both on campus and in the community. Over the past few weeks, students have ventured off campus in the new ETVs…
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Mack-Boulder Spotlight: Performing Arts
If you were lucky enough to be at one of the standing-room-only performances of the recent Mack-Boulder 5th-8th grade musical “Theseus & the Minotaur,” you are probably still humming some…
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5 Reasons that Reading Aloud (Even to Older Children) is Beneficial (Plus a Bonus List of Book Suggestions)
By Kristi Holmes Espineira, Mackintosh Littleton Director of Advancement You can’t tell from today’s surprise spring snowstorm, but summer is just around the corner! Mack students will soon go home…
Read MoreLearning from a Lamb Carcass: How Mack-Boulder Focuses on Experiential and Service Learning
A group of fifth graders is gathered around a table. On the table is a lamb—a dead one. In class, the students have been learning about how food is transformed…
Read MoreSharing the Planet: Mack-Boulder PYP Exhibition 2017 Showcases Inquiry-Based Learning
We are the ones who can make it happen We are the ones who can make it right It’s up to us It’s not too late to try Every day…
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