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Equipping Minds To Reach Their Full Potential
Monday, October 28, 2019, 9:00 AM to Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 4:00 PM EDT
Category: Trainings/Workshops

Equipping Minds To Reach Their Full Potential
Professional Development

Equipping Minds from The Holler on Vimeo.

 Dr. Carol Brown EdD
Oct. 28 & 29
9:00-4:00
$300 ( includes 2018 teacher & student workbooks)
Frankfort, KY
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 If you already have the 2018 workbooks, SPECIAL CODE: HAVEBOOK for a discount.
 
Monday, October 28,  9:00 am-4:00 pm
 
Research behind Equipping Minds Holistic Approach to Cognitive Development
 Participants will learn that the brain can change, as the latest research on neuroplasticity has proven. Dr. Brown's research will be examined.
Equipping Minds Cognitive Development Curriculum Overview
Participants will review the key sections of the workbook and how to use each area.

 Exercises to Improve Processing and Working Memory Part 1
 Participants will learn the foundational exercises for developing visual processing, auditory processing, language processing, and working memory.
 
12:00 Lunch
 
 Exercises to Improve Processing and Working Memory Part 2
 Participants will learn the foundational exercises for developing visual processing, auditory processing, language processing, and working memory.
 
Foundations for Intelligent Thinking with Aristotle's Ten Categories to Develop Comprehension and Critical Thinking
Learn the ten categories and how to use Socratic questioning to develop comprehension and critical thinking.   
Equipping Minds through Trauma-Informed Lens and Interventions
Participants will learn how trauma and stress impact behavior, social skills, communication, and learning.
Tuesday, October 29,  9:00 am-4:00 pm
Accessing and Integrating Primitive Reflexes
Participants will learn seven primitive reflexes, the symptoms associated with each and how to integrate.
 
 Understanding the Visual, Auditory, and Vestibular System
Learn the importance of the vestibular system, visual processing, and auditory processing to learning. Learn the exercises to connect these pathways.  

Exercises for the Brown 6-9 N Back
 Dr. Carol Brown developed an adaptive n-back with six-nine tasks in which learners were asked to associated animals with symbols, vowels with sound, symbols, and colors, numbers and letters, with symbols and colors, recall images and sequence of US presidents, identify colors, and identify directions of left, right, up, and down.

Classroom Connections to Impact Reading, Math, Writing, Comprehension, Spelling, History, and Science
Understand the cognitive skills needed for each subject and how to use Equipping Minds in those classes.
 
12:00 pm Lunch
 
Equipping Minds Sessions Overview
Carol will walk participants through the first ten sessions of the program and how to implement in the school day. The lesson plans for the 30 hours of intervention in the Equipping Minds research study will also be discussed.
 
Integrating the Equipping Minds Cognitive Development Curriculum in the Classroom, Small Group, Learning Center, Workplace, Adult Living Center, Church, After-School Program and Home
 Schools are implementing Equipping Minds in RTI, regular and gifted classrooms, and FMD classroom. It is implemented one on one, small group, and in large classrooms. Learn how this is done.
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