Our Mission Statement
Mackintosh Academy – Boulder nurtures the keen minds and compassionate hearts of the gifted child in a responsive and caring community of learners. Our students mature into confident, healthy human beings inspired to contribute to a world that needs them.
Three mission tenets – Keen Minds, Compassionate Hearts, and Global Action – make up the foundation of our mission and educational approach at Mackintosh.
As an authorized International Baccalaureate (IB) School since 2006, Mackintosh Academy’s mission aligns with the International Baccalaureate program’s mission, “to create a better world through education.” Read the full IB mission statement on the International Baccalaureate organization’s website and learn more about our IB Primary Years Programme and IB Middle Years Promgramme.
Mack’s Philosophy
Mackintosh Academy- Boulder independent school maximizes the learning potential of the gifted child and promotes development of the whole child: cognitively, socially, emotionally, creatively, and physically. Our rich curriculum incorporates challenging academics with the arts, physical education, languages, and technology.
A child who is academically prepared, however, is only partially equipped to make a meaningful contribution to society. We deeply care and are responsive to the factors influencing the social-emotional and interpersonal development of a gifted child. Students need to respect themselves and others, listen actively, think critically, negotiate conflict, build resiliency, take responsibility, and understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
Today’s gifted students are faced with the challenges and opportunities of learning about an interconnected world where knowledge is constantly developing. We prepare students to be active participants in a lifelong journey of learning through inquiry and reflection. We cultivate strong and trusting relationships among students and faculty to support and tend to the optimal growth of each child’s potential.
