Dr. Barry Gives Texas Nurses Prescription for Helping Teens Manage Emotions

BrainWise founder and director Dr. Patricia Gorman Barry received a Texas-sized welcome for her presentation: How to Be BrainWise: Teaching Teens to Make Good Decisions, at the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) 2011 conference, held August 15 and 16...

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Being BrainWise Pays Off for CHSC Students

[caption id="attachment_416" align="alignleft" width="150"] Dell Brooks and Geoff Noble with the Be BrainWise with Money Winner![/caption] The BrainWise Program is proud to recognize thirteen outstanding Colorado High School Charter (CHSC) students who have demonstrated exceptional critical thinking skills during the...

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Master BrainWise Instructor Brooks Receives Rotary Volunteer Service Award for 2011

Dell Brooks, a high school teacher and master BrainWise instructor, is the recipient of the Rotary Volunteer in Community Service Award for 2011. The award is given by the 80 Rotary Clubs that comprise Rotary District 5450 and acknowledges outstanding...

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Dr. Barry is Keynote Speaker at Alaska Conference

BrainWise founder and director Dr. Patricia Gorman Barry presented the keynote address at a conference hosted by the Alaska Center for Resource Families and the Alaska Department of Public Health Office of Children’s Services. The conference, attended by 270 foster...

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BrainWise Checklists Improve Thinking Skills

Why Use Checklists? We can use checklists to make sure that that we apply knowledge consistently and correctly to make decisions.Atul Gawarnde’s (2010) book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Done Right, discusses how checklists help pilots and surgeons...

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