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Join the Movement Series hosted by Smart Moves Academy and the Anchin Center

October 15, 2023

The David C. Anchin Center for the Advancemnet of Teaching welcomed teachers to Join the Movement: Harness the Power of the Mind-Body Connection to Supercharge Engagement, Accelerate Learning, and Close Gaps! This professional development series is being offered in partnership with Smart Moves Academy and is filled with rich opportunities to learn, connect, collaborate, and re-commit ourselves to ensuring all students enjoy healthy, engaging, and cognitively enriching educational experiences grounded in best practices. The professional learning experiences offered in this series highlights cutting edge research in educational neuroscience to help all of us who care about student achievement and growth to better understand the connection between the brain, the body, wellness, and learning.

Each of the sessions (listed below) in this series was built upon the other, allowing you to add unique knowledge and strategies to your teaching and learning toolboxes that are effective, easy to implement with students, and that require no to very limited and low cost tools and equiptment.  Each session also stands tall on its own, allowing the flexability to take any number of sessions.

Minds-In-Motion Maze (Session 1)
MNRI Trasure Box to Facilitate Learning (Session 2)
The New IQ (Session 3)
Brain Gym (Session 4)
Bal-A-Vis X Part 1 & 2 (Session 5 & 6)