The Key to Unlocking Learning Potential
The Urban School Services Department has teamed with Dr. Ken Gibson and BrainSkills to bring an innovative educational breakthrough to ACSI schools and under-resourced children. Learn how your school can access tools for identifying cognitive skills deficiencies and tools to intervene with brain training for your students.
Why do some kids learn and some struggle given the same educational setting? The key may be linked to the strength of the student’s cognitive skill foundation. Even though research and clinical experience has proven that appropriate cognitive skill training can unlock a student’s learning potential, the assessment and training has been beyond the reach of most urban schools. Dr. Ken Gibson, founder and President of LearningRx, has developed a proven track record to significantly improve the foundational cognitive skills and unlock the learning potential of struggling students.
He has formed a new company called BrainSkills to create an online version of his proven clinical program and make the program more accessible for schools. The Urban School Services Department has teamed with Dr. Gibson and BrainSkills to bring this innovative educational breakthrough to ACSI schools and under-resourced children. On behalf of ACSI we are excited to announce that each of your students can now be evaluated and you can examine their relative cognitive strengths and weaknesses using an online assessment that takes only 30 to 40 minutes to complete. We are helping to standardize the test during the FALL semester 2008.
The basic training exercises is being made available to our urban schools as an ACSI member benefit. Non-urban schools may access the exercises for a fee. Ongoing research continues to validate the critical need among our students to build a stronger cognitive skill foundation. We came to our commitment in this project not to see if it works, but to make it work. We strongly believe that this program can revolutionize urban education.
For more information about the Gibson Cognitive Skills Test or about having students participate in the rollout of the BrainSkills cognitive exercises, contact:
Urban School Services
or visit the ACSI section of the BrainSkills website.
This site specifies what you will want to know concerning the program and the online products along with any technology, facilities, or other requirements.