With write brain, our students’ and teachers’ passion for writing has been re-ignited! This unique learning experience has increased confidence and sparked creativity in our student authors.Cognitive learning disability the SEL programs are having a huge impact as our kids journal, play improv games, learn poetry styles, and spoken word. We hosted a big 21st CCLC published authors event where hundreds of students were celebrated for their accomplishments and received their published books with beaming smiles and pride!Cognitive learning disability

“focus in our after school program has always been academic enrichment. We’ve been fortunate enough to bring write brain, which really encompasses not only our school board’s focus, but also the focus of expanded learning programs in california.Cognitive learning disability the great thing about the program is that it embeds and focuses on 21st century learning. Kids are problem solving and using strategies to make decisions as a group.”

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“as a middle school teacher, one of the things I look forward to most is when my students are genuinely excited about learning. These days, they walk in the classroom and ask, ‘do we get to write today?’ the write brain BOOKS curriculum meets many of the texas essential knowledge and skills standards, but it also engages students as they learn and create collaboratively.”

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“"write brain has been a great addition to our school sites summer programming. It allowed our youth to work on their literacy skills in a fun creative way enhancing their interest in learning.Cognitive learning disability many of the youth discussed how pushed it them out of their comfort zone, forcing them to work in groups, which inevitably taught them to be thoughtful of other people’s opinions.Cognitive learning disability it takes a special program to reach beyond the intended curriculum and teach youth to be considerate caring individuals. The staff were so impressed by the outcomes they are considering implementing the program during the school year!"

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“the write brain BOOKS curricula are truly cohesive and rigorous and allow our students to apply the CCSS english language arts standards. Students are engaged in thorough lessons, where they experience the process of publication from start to finish.Cognitive learning disability the program can be implemented alone, but also fits beautifully with any other writing program a school or district may be using with fidelity.”

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“write brain BOOKS is, HANDS-DOWN, the most engaging literacy curriculum available for our youth. Notice I didn’t qualify that statement with ‘afterschool.’ it is beyond exceptional for afterschool programs, but is just as powerful and dynamic in the in-school, classroom-learning environment.Cognitive learning disability the positive impact of this curriculum for students, educators, parents, and communities is off the charts!”

“the write brain program not only engages our students, but also our staff, to think out of the box and to make learning fun.Cognitive learning disability the lesson plans and activities are offered at their fingertips to ensure that lessons are accessible and engaging. Our instructors are able to see the vision and buy into it, therefore offering our students a remarkable experience.”

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“I frontload the writebrain curriculum with non-fiction articles about minority representation and authorship in children's books. It cultivates buy-in and meaning, especially when writing directly to children of their own community.Cognitive learning disability as an educator, you're reading so many things throughout the day, you forget that there is a student on the other side who's really putting their energy, their effort, and their love into it.Cognitive learning disability through the write brain experience, I’ve had the opportunity to read much more of their minds and not just their words.”

“I have taught english learners exclusively during my career as an educator.Cognitive learning disability we measure english language acquisition in four domains: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Each student tends to master language in that order.Cognitive learning disability writing is the hardest domain for these students, and until write brain, I struggled to get my EL’s to write much more than a paragraph. With the write brain curriculum, they never want to stop writing.Cognitive learning disability student engagement is evident in every lesson, and often I have students stop me in the hall to ask if it is a ‘write brain day’.

I have always had the philosophy that if you can get your students to love what they are doing, they will learn more and develop habits that will last their entire lives.Cognitive learning disability wriie brain doesn’t just teach a lesson, it creates writers. When you love what you are learning, you put more passion and effort into it. WRiTE brain learners love the curriculum.Cognitive learning disability they are motivated to write their books, proud of their accomplishments, confident in their ability and eager to continue writing.

At write brain BOOKS we embrace technology and the advanced programs that exist and give young people a great deal of freedom as they endeavor to create remarkable things.Cognitive learning disability any WBB author can write any of our books on any tablet with a stylus or the tip of their finger. However, we believe that it is the experience of first hand-writing a story into our richly-illustrated classroom workbooks, then uploading a completed story to our website or app, that promotes the development of numerous necessary skills resulting from a WHOLE BRAIN approach to our process.Cognitive learning disability becoming a write brain BOOKS author is an achievable challenge! Justin reich is a fellow at harvard’s berkman center for internet and society, and the founder of edtechteacher, a professional development consultancy that trains teachers to use tech effectively.Cognitive learning disability

Justin, who advocates for tech in the classroom, says, "the first step in rethinking how we teach should be a renewed examination of how kids learn.Cognitive learning disability before we fall down the techno–rabbit hole and demand tablets in every classroom, we need to seriously reconsider, for example, whether teaching content, as opposed to cognitive skills, can adequately prepare our children for 21st-century professions.Cognitive learning disability in other words, our nation’s educational mindset—one that traditionally uses fact-regurgitation as a marker of success—desperately requires a reboot.”

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“many teachers want to emphasize independent thinking, but primary-school curriculums (sic) are still largely geared toward 'teaching to the test.' according to dr.Cognitive learning disability gary small, a neuroscientist at UCLA and author of ibrain: surviving the technological alteration of the modern mind, this model is long out-of-date.” dr.Cognitive learning disability judy willis, a neurologist and adjunct professor at the university of california, santa barbara, who has also taught elementary and middle school, says that knowledge learned via memorization is particularly susceptible to the “use it or lose it” phenomenon.Cognitive learning disability

“the brain’s procedural memory will only be activated in the way that memory was first learned,” she says. Translation: we learn to play a musical instrument, speak a language, or sail a boat by actively practicing these skills.Cognitive learning disability in contrast, students who absorb information specifically for a test can usually only recall that information for the test.