Welcome to Brainbow Learning Center
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What is Brainbow?
Brainbow is a not-for-profit corporation formed to fund Julie Ekblad's dream to share what she learned about the brain and thinking after she was in a coma for three weeks following an auto accident. Julie developed the curriculum, "Thinking: You & Your Brain," in 1985 and began teaching it in schools in Delaware and Marion Counties in Indiana, with great success. Teachers and children alike were impressed with the need for the program in their schools.
Thinking: You & Your Brain is a supplementary classroom curriculum for elementary aged children. Through a better understanding of the brain, children learn the steps involved in processing information and making decisions.
The curriculum is both Science- and Art-based, as it teaches creative as well as cognitive processes. It is taught through the use of circles and colored circular symbols that provide children objects-to-think with as they learn the steps involved in thinking through a decision.
The curriculum makes the connection for students that school is for improving in their various areas of intelligence. It helps them understand the importance of career and college decisions.
Why is this project needed?
Kids can't think; that is, kids learn what to think in school, but not how to think. This project works to enhance children's decision making and creative skills, through a better understanding of the thought development process.
Written by Connie Vickery, Financial Director for Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith, 1994.