Price: $18.95
Schools
Brain Fitness Strategies loves working with schools to enhance the learning of their students. By working with staff or students, custom programs can be developed to build the motor and learning skills of students of all ages. We offer Teacher Workshops and Student Workshops for elementary, middle, and high schools.
Teacher Workshops
Our teacher workshops bring you the latest research on how physical movement changes the brain, making it easier for students to learn in the classroom. Teachers will leave with practical, easy-to-implement brain fitness strategies they can take into their classroom the very next day. They will learn:
• How to identify the learning profiles of students
• The relation between motor development and learning skills
• How to recognize developmental gaps in physical development
• A classroom exercise for building concentration
• How to position students in the classroom to enhance learning
• Tools for calming students
The workshops are fun, hands-on, and practical.
Schools wanting to develop and continue a juggling program benefit from Brain Fitness Strategies’ twenty-five years of experience teaching juggling in public and private schools. We love teaching educators, which is the fastest way to help the most kids. We can teach your staff how to teach juggling, even if they are unable to learn to juggle at that time.
Student Workshops
With over twenty-five years of teaching workshops in schools, Brain Fitness Strategies has classroom-tested activities that gain measurable results. We work with schools to determine what their unique needs are so that we can help them achieve the outcome they are seeking.
Have a Ball Learning Workshop
This is one of our most popular workshops! Scientific research has validated what we knew from experience: learning to juggle grows new brain cells and new neural pathways, improving reading, math, and coordination. By building a stronger corpus callosum (the nerve fibers connecting the right and left hemispheres), students are able to access more of their brain. And by exercising the cerebellum, students gain more physical and mental coordination.
Have a Ball Learning is a multi-day residency that teaches students how to juggle, but they get much more than that. Juggling is a neuromuscular skill that builds new circuits in the brain, allowing students to improve all of their learning skills, particularly reading, writing, and concentration. Neurology researchers have recently confirmed that juggling has a profound impact on the brain, improving nearly every aspect of brain health and function.
Juggling grows new brain cells in the part of the brain that processes visual information, a critical step in learning. When that part of the brain is impaired, it shows up as dyslexia, poor coordination, and generalized difficulty in learning. By exercising this part of the brain regularly, students can improve their reading and writing skills, which will raise their test scores in all subjects.
Students are also taught a balance exercise that builds concentration, coordination, eye tracking, postural reflexes, muscle tone, balance, hand-eye coordination, and reading skills. Teachers love this exercise because it gives them a way to improve students’ ability to concentrate in a measurable way.
With over twenty-five years of experience teaching juggling workshops, Brain Fitness Strategies has developed classroom-tested step-by-step instructions on how to juggle so that ANY child can learn to master their mind and body.