For Children Ages 9-16+
Smart Brain Wise Heart™
Students learn at their own pace while instructors reinforce key self-regulation skills in the classroom. It draws on the best of young peoples’ brains and hearts to help empower them to make smarter decisions, gain greater self-control and navigate the academic and social dimensions of life with greater success.
A New Online Social and Emotional Learning Program
Smart Brain Wise Heart™ is both an online and classroom facilitated social and emotional learning program. Students learn at their own pace while instructors reinforce key self-regulation skills in the classroom. It draws on the best of young peoples’ brains and hearts to help empower them to make smarter decisions, gain greater self-control and navigate the academic and social dimensions of life with greater success.
Why SBWH Works!
At the heart of SBWH are short and engaging whiteboard animation videos that present key ideas and practices in important social and emotional learning competencies. With abundant support from a variety of enrichment activities, instructors will be able to choose the type of course lessons that best address the diverse needs of the students they serve.
Enthusiastic Teachers
“As a 30-year veteran employee in a large school district, I believe Smart Brain Wise Heart is one of the best classroom offerings I have ever given. My upper elementary and middle school students are loving this program. They are engaged and enthusiastic about what they are learning.”
– Maria I. Arisso, school social worker, Miami Dade Public Schools
A Blended Learning Experience
SBWH is a blended learning program for students, ages 9-16, that combines a printed Leader’s Kit for teacher-led instruction along with a fully developed online learning program. Different strands of instruction deepen the learning experience, including review and discussion, activity worksheets, illustrated articles, practice opportunities, project-based action assignments, learning-based scenario videos and assessments. With the online 24-question pre- and post-Student Opinion Survey to gauge student progress, educators can statistically evaluate the program’s effectiveness.
Program Features
Evidence-based
- Free online home access for students.
- Usable on smartboard classroom computers, laptop or desktop computers and tablets.
- 8 units of instruction.
- 7 whiteboard animation videos, 7 learning-basedscenario videos, student introductory video and a teacher instruction video.
- 47 printable PDFs along with parallel online activities.
- Pre- and post-survey: 24 questions.
- 12 video-enhanced breathing pacers.
8 Instructional Units
Unit 1: Taxi Movie
Unit 2: In Sync/Out of Sync
Unit 3: Inner Weather Report®
Unit 4: Two Tools to Help Get You in Sync
Unit 5: Prep/Reset
Unit 6: People Relationships
Unit 7: Decision-Making
Unit 8: Heart-Brain Fitness for Learning
Program Structure – How it Works
There are eight units in the Smart Brain Wise Heart program, each containing a video. Each unit begins with a brief overview of the video, followed, in most cases, by short definitions of unfamiliar vocabulary and then the video presentation.
The Smart Brain Wise Heart learning process has four main parts:
Video Introduction and Presentation
Review, Discuss and Practice
Action Assignments
Learning-Based Scenarios: Assessing Student Learning
Pricing
Single User
0 Educator and 1 Student
Classroom
1 Educator and 30 Students
Multi-Class
3 Educators and 90 Students
Site
8 Educators and 240 Students
District
32 Educators and 960 Students
For questions, please contact HeartMath Institute by e-mail at [email protected] Or, Contact Jeff Goelitz at (831) 338-8713
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