Description

🏡 Equipping Minds in the Homeschool Day (3-Hour Training)

When we strengthen the brain, learning becomes lighter, faster, and more joyful—for everyone.

Strengthening Memory, Focus & Processing for Learning

A Multidisciplinary Cognitive Development Approach for Homeschool Educators

Equipping Minds in the Homeschool Day is a practical 3-hour training designed specifically for homeschool parents and educators who want to strengthen the cognitive skills that make learning possible, across ages, subjects, and learning styles.

Rather than adding “one more program,” participants learn how to embed Equipping Minds cognitive games and exercises naturally into the homeschool day—before academics, between subjects, or as intervention and enrichment.

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🎯 Training Goals

Participants will learn how to:

• Develop the cognitive foundations for learning

• Support multiple children with different needs at the same time

• Reduce frustration, fatigue, and resistance to learning

• Use Equipping Minds flexibly across ages and subjects

• Build confident, independent learners

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🧠 What You Will Learn

Homeschool educators will learn games and exercises that strengthen:

• Processing speed

• Attention and focus

• Working memory

• Executive functioning

• Comprehension and reasoning

• Thinking and problem-solving

• Social skills and emotional regulation

These skills directly support reading, math, writing, spelling, science, and life skills.

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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Who This Training Is For

Equipping Minds is successfully used in homeschool environments with learners of all ages and abilities, including:

Autism Spectrum
ADD/ADHD
Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia
Gifted and twice-exceptional learners
Learning and processing challenges
Traumatic Brain Injury
Executive functioning challenges
Down Syndrome
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Communication disorders
Memory and comprehension challenges

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🕘 3-Hour Homeschool Training Agenda

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1️⃣ How the Brain Learns at Home (30 minutes)

Why cognition—not curriculum—is often the missing piece

• Neuroplasticity: why learning can change at any age

• Why children struggle even with a strong curriculum

• The role of attention, processing, and working memory in daily homeschool lessons

• How strengthening cognition reduces meltdowns and resistance

🧩 Homeschool takeaway: We don’t need a different curriculum—we need stronger learning tools.

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2️⃣ Building Cognitive Skills Into the Homeschool Day (45 minutes)

Learn foundational Equipping Minds exercises that strengthen:

• Processing

• Working memory

• Attention

• Executive functioning

• Language and reasoning

✔ How to use 5–15 minute cognitive blocks
✔ How to rotate activities with multiple children
✔ When to use games as warm-ups, resets, or interventions
✔ How to adapt for early learners through teens

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3️⃣ Brown 6–9 N-Back for Executive Functioning (30 minutes)

Developed by Dr. Carol Brown, this adaptive program strengthens:

• Working memory

• Focus

• Mental flexibility

• Self-regulation

Learners associate:

• Animals, letters, vowels, numbers, presidents, and sounds

• With symbols and colors

• While identifying directions (left, right, up, down)

Homeschool focus:

• How to use N-Back with multiple ages

• How often to practice (without burnout)

• How to track progress informally

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4️⃣ Using Cognitive Games Across Subjects (30 minutes)

Learn how to connect cognitive skills directly to:

• Reading and comprehension

• Math reasoning and calculation

• Writing and spelling

• Science and history discussions

Participants will learn how to:

• Identify which cognitive skill is blocking learning

• Choose the right Equipping Minds game for the challenge

• Support struggling learners without reteaching content endlessly

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5️⃣ Practicing the Equipping Minds Games (30 minutes)

• Live demonstration of homeschool-friendly games

• Hands-on practice with:

  • Equipping Minds Beginner & Xtreme Cards

  • Spot It!

  • Blink

• How to modify difficulty for siblings working together

• How to turn games into independent stations

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6️⃣ Creating a Sustainable Homeschool Plan (15 minutes)

Participants will leave with:

• A simple weekly cognitive plan

• Guidelines for daily practice (10–30 minutes total)

• Strategies for balancing academics, therapy, and family life

• Confidence to adapt without “doing it wrong”

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📦 Registration Includes

• Sample schedules and lesson ideas for homeschool use

📘 Optional: Student workbooks, EM Colored Houses Beginner and Xtreme Level Cards, EMCDC teacher workbook available for purchase
Special pricing available for orders of five or more student workbooks—please contact Dr. Brown.

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🧰 Materials Needed

Participants may want to have access to:

• Unifix cubes

• Equipping Minds Beginner Level and Xtreme Cards 

• Spot It! (Gone Camping, Original, or Animals)

• Blink

Recommended (not required):

• Color Code

• Uzzle Stack Royale

• Stare Jr. (Second Edition)

• Qbitz Jr.

• Yo, Millard Fillmore (Kindle)

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🌟 Key Takeaway for Homeschool Educators

When we strengthen the brain, learning becomes lighter, faster, and more joyful—for everyone.