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“I’ve taught ‘thinking skills’ for 20 years, but BrainWise put all the skills into one program. It is a powerful teaching tool.” – High school teacher

In 1995, Dr. Barry and several instructors piloted the BrainWise for Grades 6-12 to at-risk youth in Denver middle and high schools. She served as the lead teacher, experiencing first-hand the challenges facing teachers, counselors and students. Daily classroom contact with inner-city teens and feedback from teachers and other students helped her make BrainWise a teacher-friendly and student-receptive program, centered around a scripted curriculum designed to make BrainWise easy to teach, even by peer educators and community volunteers.

In response to requests from mentors, counselors, and social workers who work individually with youth, Dr. Barry developed BrainWise One-on-One. After program graduates lamented, “I should have learned this in grade school,” Dr. Barry, again working with teachers and in the classroom, developed BrainWise for Grades K-5. A companion piece for parents and a curriculum for severely disabled students have also been developed.

The BrainWise materials were designed to be affordable and reproducible and learning- based activities were created for easy integration into literature, history, social studies, and science courses, as well as experiences and topics inside and outside the classroom.

The BrainWise curricula contain scripted lesson plans, and reproducible, age-appropriate worksheets that can be used to teach children, teens, and adults. The materials are available for group and individual teaching, and include reinforcement activities, checklists, a review guide, laminated posters and cards featuring the 10 Wise Ways.

BrainWise for Children

BrainWise for Grades K-5

A Guide to Building Thinking Skills in Children

BrainWise for Grades K-5 includes 249 pages of scripted lesson plans and 63 reproducible student worksheets. Each chapter clearly sets forth the goal and objectives of each lesson and provides the instructor with group teaching activities specially designed for children. The flexible lesson plans allow for individual creativity and also show how to infuse the thinking skills into other subjects and activities outside the classroom.

Price: $150.00

"For the past nine years, I have been teaching BrainWise in my classroom. It is the best program I have ever used in I my twenty-seven years of teaching."
Wendy Cameron award-winning kindergarten teacher

BrainWise Grades K-5 and Poster Set

Order a poster set with a curriculum and receive a $20.00 discount!

Price: $190.00

BrainWise for Youth and Adults

BrainWise for Grades 6-12

A Guide to Building Thinking Skills in Young People

BrainWise for Grades 6-12 contains over 300 pages of material that includes scripted lesson plans, group teaching activities, reproducible student worksheets, and a review guide. The "Live It!" section provides the instructor with checklists, games, skill sheets, and a "problem solving" worksheet to help the student analyze personal problems of everyday life.  A specially designed curriculum can be used for instruction with adults.

Price: $150.00

"This BrainWise is a great class. I can honestly say that this class helped me with my problems at home, school, and with my relationship with my boyfriend. I think this class should be required to take. It's a great class"
High School Female 16

BrainWise 6-12 and Poster Set

Order a poster set with a curriculum and receive a $20.00 discount!

Price: $190.00

BrainWise for Individuals

BrainWise One-on-One:

A Guide to Building Thinking Skills in Young People - For Use by Mentors, Counselors, Social Workers and Others

BrainWise One-on-One is 275 pages of guided teaching activities for mentors, counselors, social workers and others who work one-on-one with children and youth. An easy-to-follow format sets forth the goals and objectives of each lesson, as well as a list of materials to use for each activity. It includes a packet of material for the individual student that contains reproducible worksheets, a set of BrainWise cards, bookmark, skill sheets, and a certificate of completion. Individual sets of material for additional students can be ordered separately.

Price: $150.00

"BrainWise is an impressive program that helps students develop their emotional self-awareness, which is a cornerstone of healthy human development. All of us -- students and adults alike -- could certainly benefit from the skills nurtured in BrainWise."
David Fulton, Ph.D. Former Education Consultant, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Individual Student Sets

These individual student sets contain a pack of the BrainWise cards, a bookmark, skill sheets, and a colorful Certificate of Completion of the BrainWise Program. Designed for use by an individual student in conjunction with the One-on-One curriculum, they can be used as a tool to continually reinforce the concepts of the 10 Wise Ways!

Price: $15.00

Brainwise 1 on 1 and Poster Set

Order a poster set with a curriculum and receive a $20.00 discount!

Price: $190.00

BrainWise Companion Book

BrainWise Companion Book

How to Be BrainWise: The Proven Method for Making Smart Choices

A companion book for teachers and parents that summarizes the BrainWise Program which has been successfully taught for more than fifteen years in classrooms and agencies throughout the world. It’s also great for individuals who want to learn about the mind’s emotional mechanics and how to become BrainWise in their daily lives. 112 Pages Paper Bound.

Price: $15.00

"This is a terrific little book that helps parents become more mindful of their parenting…"
David Olds, Ph.D. Professor of Pediatrics and Director, 
Prevention Research for Family and Child Health 
University of Colorado, Denver

BrainWise Instructor Teaching Aids

"I am most impressed with the vocabulary the children have developed and the way they internalize this vocabulary to help them stop and think about their actions,and to talk about their feelings."
Janet Spearman, Principal, University Park Elementary School, Denver, CO

Individual Student Sets

These individual student sets contain a pack of the BrainWise cards, a bookmark, skill sheets, and a colorful Certificate of Completion of the BrainWise Program. Designed for use by an individual student in conjunction with the One-on-One curriculum, they can be used as a tool to continually reinforce the concepts of the 10 Wise Ways!

Price: $15.00

BrainWise Posters

A set of 12 laminated posters (11" X 17") featuring colorful graphics of the 10 Wise Ways.

Price: $60.00*

 *$20.00 discount on poster set if purchased with a curriculum

BrainWise Bookmarks

A laminated set of 20 bookmarks containing the 10 Wise Ways lets you use any book as a teaching aid.

Price: $15.00

BrainWise Cards

An individual set of the 10 Wise Ways cards.

Price: $10.00

*Because it is a non-profit organization, revenue generated from the sale of BrainWise products is used to subsidize program costs at inner city schools, and help pay for the organization's operating expenses. The agency estimates that 90 % of its revenue is spent on the development, production, implementation, and evaluation of the BrainWise program!

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