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Bal-A-Vis-X: A series of Balance / Auditory / Vision eXercises, of varied complexity, most of which are deeply rooted in rhythm. These exercises require full-body coordination and focused attention. It demands cooperation, promotes self-challenge, and fosters peer teaching. It is school friendly and just plain fun.

Balametrics: High quality balance therapies that improve all aspects of intelligence and performance. Provides models and resources enabling anyone to apply these therapies.

Brain Gym: A worldwide network dedicated to enhancing living and learning through the science of movement. For more than 30 years and in over 80 countries, they have been helping children, adults, and seniors.

CS Partners: a results-driven management firm made up of highly regarded educators from the traditional and charter school systems. CS Partners provides full service school management, including staff development and training leadership in implementation of the TSTP.

Michigan Association of Public School Academies (MAPSA): Providing leadership to advance quality and promote choice in education. MAPSA serves this purpose through its support of a strong community of chartered public schools and their supporters, committed to offering every Michigan child an opportunity to learn.

Neuro Reading: Teaches students who were thought not able to learn to read through a diagnostic prescriptive process and the application of current brain research. The approach is fast paced and takes advantage of the brain's plasticity and its ability to compensate for difficulties by seeking novel avenues to learning.

Performance Series Testing by Scantron: A computer-adaptive test that automatically adapts to each student's instructional level. Assessments are web-based giving educators an accurate snapshot of students' performance across a range of subjects and skills enabling immediate and appropriate placement and tailored instruction.

Project First Step: An experience-based program which concentrates on enhancing the fundamental physical movement skills which are necessary in order for optimum academic learning to take place. The project works to further children's interaction with critical movement skills.

Reading Screenings: Schools use a variety of reading screenings to determine current levels of performance for their students. A reading screening is a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. They are designed to be short measures used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading skills. Screenings currently being used by dissemination schools include, but are not limited to, the following:

Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA)

Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)

Michigan Literacy Progress Profile (MLPP)

Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI)

Visualizing & Verbalizing: This Lindamood-Bell program successfully stimulates concept imagery. Individuals become able to image gestalts which include color, and even movement. This improves their language comprehension, reasoning for critical thinking, and expressive language skills.

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