This document describes a curriculum and resources for whole child engagement that integrates storytelling, exercise, and self-regulation. It includes DVDs or MP4s with creative movement, yoga, and brain gym activities to enhance physical fitness, emotional stability, and learning readiness. Accompanying cards and lesson plans build on the videos to support health, nutrition, self-regulation, and social-emotional learning. The curriculum is validated by scientific research on topics like attention, stress response, memory, executive function, and academic performance. It aims to unify mind and body for optimal learning.

2. Resources and Curriculum
Integrates:
Story
Exercise
Self-Regulation

3. Resources and Curriculum
Whole child engagement enhances:
Physical Fitness
Emotional Stability
Learning Readiness

4. DVD or MP4 format
• Story-driven & Instructional Active Play
• Combines Creative Movement, Yoga &
Brain Gym® based activites
• Aerobic & Anaerobic Exercise
• Designed & Taught by Experts
• Affordable PE & SEL Curriculum activity

5. Health - Nutrition - Self-Regulation
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Set of 16 – hard copy & printable pdf
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Reinforce health lessons & techniques in videos
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Build self-care into daily routine
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Support well-being, harmony & learning
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Enhance SEL & executive function

6. Fulfills Head Start Early Learning Framework
& Common Core Standards
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Builds on the video class & cards
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Comprehensive 30-week program
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Themed lesson plans with 200+ activities:
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Cooperative Games
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Take it Outside
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Mindfulness
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Movement to Music
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Stories in Motion

7. OUR UNIQUE INTEGRATION OF
1. Developed and tested with children
2. Distinct from anything currently on the market
3. Validated by scientific research

8. Research Highlights
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Focus attention and engage participant
in an empathic response, creating a
significant physiological effect on the
body and on behavioral choices. (Paul Zak,
2013)
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Activate episodic memory and light up
the whole brain for learning (Dr. John Medina,
Brain Rules, 2010)
using Bilateral and Cross-lateral Intentional Movement
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Decrease off-task behavior in preschool age
children (Dr. Jennifer Dustow, Autism Project, 2009)
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Improve creative problem solving, language
skills, and memory (Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., The Cognitive
Benefits of Play: Effects on the Learning Brain, 2008)

9. Research Highlights
• Increases attention span and ability to ignore distractions and
concentrate effectively
• Enhances behavioral regulation, metacognition, and overall global
executive function (Flook, Smalley, Kitil, Galla, Kaiser-Greenland, Locke, Ishijima,
Kasari, 2010, Napoli, Krech, & Holley, 2005)
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Over-rides the body’s physiological response to stress
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Stimulates the release of BDNF, which grows the brain (Ratey, 2008)
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Improves the cognitive control of attention
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Enhances academic performance (Hillman, CH, Pontifex, MB, Raine, LB,
Castelli, DM, Hall, EE, Kramer, AF, 2009)

10. Research Highlights
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Unifies and integrates mind/body
experience (Journal of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
2009)
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Organizes whole-brain function for
optimal learning (Dennison and Hannaford, 1999)
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Improves executive functions
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Concentrates BDNF in the hippocampus,
enhances long term memory retention
(Ratey, 2008)
(Science 2011)

11. For Your Classroom

12. For You
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14. Adventure Skills
Ordered to coincide with Brain Gym® PACE: www.braingym.org

15. For You
Post-Activity: notice sensations & range of motion
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17. Build movement skills
Reinforce health & self-regulation
Comprehensive & integrated whole child
program for PE, SEL, Expressive Arts
For Staff & Parents in-person & online

18. Stories/Literature:
Lin, P-Y., Grewal, N.S., Morin, C., Johnson, W.D., Zak, P.J. 2013. Oxytocin increases the
influence of public service advertisements. PLoS ONE 8(2): e56934. doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0056934. [Link]
Medina, John. Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five.
Seattle: Pear Press, 2010. Print http://brainrules.net/pdf/references_longterm.pdf
Embodied Self-Regulation Skills:
Dennison, Paul and Dennison, Gail. Brain Gym® 101: Balance for Daily Life.
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EduKinesthetics, 2007. Print
Dennision, Paul & Dennison, Gail. Brain Gym Teacher’s Manual. EduKinesthetics, Inc.,
2010. Print
Dustow, Dr. Jennifer. Autism Project of Dr. Jennifer Dustow: Do Bilateral Exercises Decrease
Off Task Behavior with Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Koln, Germany: Lambert
Academic Publishing, 2009. Print LINK http://www.amazon.com/Autism-Project-Dr-Jennifer-Dustow/dp/3838316614/ref=la_B0056OC1HU_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid
Gwen Dewar, Ph.D., (2008) The Cognitive Benefits of Play: Effects on the Learning Brain,
Retrieved from http://www.parentingscience.com/benefits-of-play.html
Hannaford, Carla. Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head. Great Ocean
Publishers 1995. Print

19. Mindfulness:
Lisa Flook, Susan L. Smalley, M. Jennifer Kitil, Brian M. Galla, Susan Kaiser-Greenland,
Jill Locke, Eric Ishijima, Connie Kasari. (2010)
Effects of Mindful Awareness Practices on Executive Functions in Elementary School Children
. Journal of Applied School Psychology, Vol. 26, Iss. 1
Katherine Weare. Developing mindfulness with children and young people: a review of the
evidence and policy context. Journal of Applied School Psychology 2010 Vol. 21, Iss. 1,
pp. 99-125
Cardio-Exercise
Hillman CH, Pontifex MB, Raine LB, Castelli DM, Hall EE, Kramer AF. (2009) The effect of
acute treadmill walking on cognitive control and academic achievement in preadolescent
children. Neuroscience. 2009 Mar 31;159(3):1044-54. Doi
10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.01.057. Epub 2009 Feb 3.
Strong WB, Malina RM, Blimkie CJ, Daniels SR, Dishman RK, Gutin B, Hergenroeder AC,
Must A, Nixon PA, Pivarnik JM, Rowland T, Trost S, Trudeau F. (2005) Evidence based
physical activity for school-age youth. J Pediatr. 2005 Jun;146(6):732-7.
Slow Intentional Movement
Ratey, John J., MD. Spark, The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and The Brain.
Little Brown and Company, 2008. Print
•Gothe N. Pontefex MB, Hillman C, Mcauley E. (2012) The Acute Effects of Yoga on
Executive Function. Journal of Physical Activity & Health © 2012 Human Kinetics, Inc
•Link - http://kch.illinois.edu/research/labs/neurocognitivekinesiology/files/Articles/Gothe_2013_TheEffectsOfA.pdf

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