BrainWise board member Dan Himelspach, JD, co-founder of Dispute Management, Inc. and an expert litigator and mediator, saw a grant announcement from the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), in partnership with the JAMS Foundation, to fund “unique and innovative” projects...
Read More »The bright spot at the last Board meeting of the Jefferson County School Board was the presentation by a local Girl Scout Troop that asked the Jeffco School Board to teach the BrainWise program in all of its schools. Here...
Read More »[caption id="attachment_759" align="alignleft" width="150"] Students Using an Electronic Reader with BrainWise Content[/caption] [caption id="attachment_757" align="alignright" width="150"] Students Showing Their Own BrainWise Posters[/caption] The Manitou Springs school district has done an incredible job of teaching BrainWise to their students. Trained by...
Read More »Shawn Cohen, a social work intern, teaches BrainWise to groups of 4th and 5th graders twice a week. She says that one of the reasons she loves BrainWise is that it explains the skill and gives activities to teach the skill, but...
Read More »The Wall Street Journal reports that research conducted by Duke psychiatrist Murali Doraiswam explains why it is easy for people to send off angry emails. By scanning people’s brains when they are making decisions, he found that when our emotions get...
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