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WB'S Smallville Star John Schneider Teaches For a Day at Local School; Demonstrates Brain Skills Used on ISAT; Celebrates Brain Awareness Week, March 21, 2006.


CHICAGO -- TV Star John Schneider John Schneider is the name of the following unrelated people:
  • John Schneider (television actor), an actor best known for his television roles, particularly The Dukes of Hazzard and Smallville
 joins renowned educator and author Peter Kline plus a cast of characters from BrainWare(TM) Safari, a new software program, at the Jordan Community School in Rogers Park on March 21st. Schneider and Kline will engage students in learning about cognitive skills cognitive skill Psychology Any of a number of acquired skills that reflect an individual's ability to think; CSs include verbal and spatial abilities, and have a significant hereditary component  and how they enable students to perform on the Illinois Standard Achievement Test (ISAT ISAT Illinois Standards Achievement Test
ISAT International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial
ISAT Information Science and Technology
ISAT Information and Advisory Service on Appropriate Technology
ISAT Illinois State Assessment Test
), as part of Brain Awareness Day.

Developed by Chicago's Learning Enhancement Corporation (LEC (1) (LAN Emulation Client) A software driver that provides LAN emulation (LANE) in an ATM network. It resides in an ATM end station or in a computer system that provides the LAN to ATM conversion, often known as a LAN access device. See LANE. ), BrainWare Safari puts children aged 6-12 through a "mental workout," developing their underlying learning skills, using clinically-based exercises embedded Inserted into. See embedded system.  in a videogame format.

"Every night my youngest daughter Karis and I spend time together with BrainWare Safari. I've never seen anything so obviously advantageous in my life," said Schneider, co-founder of the Children's Miracle Network The Children's Miracle Network (CMN) is an international non-profit organization that raises funds for Children's hospitals, medical research and community awareness of children's health issues.  and known for his role as "Jonathan Kent Jonathan Kent may refer to the following people with this name:
  • Jonathan Kent (director), British actor, then later theatre and opera director, most well known as director of the Almeida Theatre in London, 1990-2002.
" on Smallville and "Bo Duke" on The Dukes of Hazzard. "I fully expect BrainWare Safari to revolutionize the way people think. I started seeing results in not only Karis' cognitive skills, but mine too! Immediately!"

Schneider is joined by Peter Kline, educator and author of Why America's Children Can't Think, and characters from the BrainWare Safari program, including Moby Monkey, Billy Bear, Patti Parrot and Jackie Jaguar. Together they will lead Jordan School students through brain exercises. Students will play the part of planets as the "Big Bang big bang

Model of the origin of the universe, which holds that it emerged from a state of extremely high temperature and density in an explosive expansion 10 billion–15 billion years ago.
" theory is reenacted. This, along with singing brain songs to the tune of childhood favorites will teach lessons relating the ISAT to cognitive skills.

"My daughter improved her thinking and problem-solving skills with BrainWare Safari," added Schneider, spokesperson for LEC. "Each level of the program was more difficult than the last, so as she worked through the program, she got better at remembering the details and transforming them in her mind. I believe that BrainWare Safari can work for all children and will improve the skills that are critical to learning and testing," Schneider said.

LEC has donated a Brain Ware Safari account to every Jordan School student, at a value of $200,000, in honor of Brain Awareness Week. Brain Awareness Day at the Jordan School was designed as an incentive for students to achieve 100% attendance during ISAT testing.

BrainWare Safari strengthens children's ability to process information faster and more effectively by building 41 key cognitive skills, which are the skills most critical to learning, such as attention, thinking, memory, and auditory/visual processing. LEC recommends children use the program three to five days a week for 30 to 60 minutes over an 8 to 12 week period. For more information visit www.BrainWareForYou.com
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