BrainWare Brain Awareness Week Grant Recipients for 2015 Announced

Educators from across the U.S. and Canada to Benefit from Software and Tuition Grants
By: The BrainWare Company
 
CHICAGO - March 16, 2015 - PRLog -- The BrainWare Company has announced the recipients of grants awarded as part of the BrainWare Brain Awareness Week Grants Program, recognizing Brain Awareness Week, March 16-22, 2015 (www.dana.org).

The grants program supports the purpose of Brain Awareness Week in promoting a broader understanding of the importance of brain research and its contribution to effective learning and cognitive development in schools.

The recipients of BrainWare Brain Awareness Week grants for BrainWare SAFARI cognitive skills development software are:

Saint Luke School, Diocese of Palm Beach – Palm Springs, FL

North Woods Discovery School – Redding, CA

Knights Elementary School, Hillsborough County Schools – Plant City, FL

Riverview School, Silver Lake Jt District Schools – Silver Lake, WI

The recipients of BrainWare Brain Awareness Week grants for SkateKids cognitively based reading software are:

SenPokChin School – Oliver, BC

Briggs Elementary School, Jefferson Township Schools – Lake Hopatcong, NJ

Bnos Ysroel of Baltimore – Baltimore, MD

The recipients of tuition grants for the online course From Synapses to Strategies are:

Elaine Schneider, Broome Tioga BOCES, Binghamton, NY
Jane Johnson, St Mary School, Archdiocese of Washington DC, Bryantown, MD

Henry Bartfield, Hebrew Academy Community School, Margate, FL

Brandi Boysun, Hyalite Elementary School, Bozeman School District 7, Bozeman, MT

Michael Martin, Pioneer Career & Technology Center, Shelby, OH

Deidre Kibbe, Leblanc Special Services, Ascension Parish Schools, Gonzales, LA

Tara Sladek-Maharag, Port Jefferson Middle School, Port Jefferson Schools, Port Jefferson, NY

Jane Lescarbau, Hubert Olson Middle School, Bloomington Public Schools, Bloomington, MN

"Brain research has so much to contribute in education,” said Betsy Hill, President & COO of The BrainWare Company.  “These grants will enable hundreds of students to experience education that is better adapted to the way the brain learns, and that helps them build the cognitive skills that they will be able to use for the rest of their lives.”

"We look forward to working with the successful applicants on their implementation of BrainWare SAFARI and SkateKids,” said Dr. Sara Sawtelle, the company’s Director of Scientific Affairs.  “As a company that is committed to providing practical tools that help educators in the application of neuroscience, we are excited to play this role in furthering the Brain Awareness Week goal of expanding awareness and understanding of the brain and learning.”

About The BrainWare Company
The BrainWare Company is a Chicago-based company that develops and markets programs and tools that further the application of sound neuroscience principles to the teaching and learning process. Its software programs combine neuroscience with motivating video-game technology, and include BrainWare SAFARI, the leading cognitive skills development software in the education market, and SkateKids and Ramps To Reading cognitively based reading programs developed by SKO Learning.  The BrainWare Company offers professional development programs for educators, clinicians and corporate workforce development under the Brains On brand, and was the creator of the acclaimed Neuroscience in Education Webinar Series.  The company’s newest professional development offering is an online course for educators called From Synapses to Strategies.  The BrainWare Company’s innovative approaches make the application of neuroscience practical and effective for consumers, educators, and clinicians and in the workplace.

About BrainWare® SAFARI
BrainWare SAFARI develops 41 cognitive skills in a comprehensive, integrated and engaging way.  The areas of skill development are grouped into six areas:  Attention, Memory, Visual Processing, Auditory Processing, Thinking, and Sensory Integration.  BrainWare SAFARI was named one of the Top 100 Products of 2011 by District Administration Magazine, and has earned an impressive array of awards including the Software and Information Industry CODiE Award as Best Education Game or Simulation; a Parents’ Choice Award, a Teachers’ Choice for the Family Award; the Academics’ Choice Mindspring Award; a Mom’s Choice Award; a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers and the Parent Tested Parent Approved Seal of Approval.

About SkateKids™

SkateKids and Ramps To Reading are online digital game-based reading programs built to stimulate and develop the cognitive processes necessary for reading, including Planning, Attention and Sequential and Simultaneous Processing, while students build critical literacy skills.  SkateKids was a finalist for the Software and Information Industry CODiE Award as Best Education Game or Simulation.

About From Synapses to Strategies
From Synapses to Strategies is an online course for educators that provides an introduction to how brains work, based on neuroscience research, in a way that translates to practical appllication in the classroom.  It dispels myths and provides a solid foundation of brain structure and function upon which to build brain-compatible practices.

For further information, visit www.MyBrainWare.com or call 877-BRAIN-10 (877-272-4610).

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