Brain Hurricane Education, Chicago

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Brain Hurricane Helps The Students In Being
Competitive
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• Brain Hurricane, a family business, was
  introduced by Reed Howard after gaining years of
  teaching experience. Her teaching background
  along with her observations helped her a lot in
  creating such an efficient tutoring service. This
  program is designed especially for the students
  from Kindergarten to eighth grade. Here, each day
  begins with several movement activities like
  Multiplication Basketball and Spelling Jumping
  Rope.

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• These activities are performed to invigorate the
  sleeping minds of students and to make them
  attentive in class. Similarly, at the end of each
  day, skits based on the lessons learnt are
  organized. It helps the students in recalling
  what they have learnt in the whole day.

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• The curriculum is designed by highly skilled and
  qualified teachers who undergo professional
  training before teaching the students. This
  training helps them to understand the teaching
  methods adopted here. The curriculum designed by
  them contains relevant content and is aligned
  with national and state benchmarks. The interest
  of students is kept in mind while creating the
  curriculum.

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• It contains short easy to understand fictional
  stories and emphasizes on mathematics and reading
  skills of students. The students are divided into
  teams which make them learn the importance of
  team work as they are required to solve their
  problems related to curriculum with the help of
  their team members.

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• The teaching methods adopted at Brain Hurricane
  make the students responsive towards teaching.
  This program is exemplified with the qualities
  like cooperative, fun, effective, experienced,
  and professional. Every program ends with a
  competition where the students are given prizes
  like stereos video games for good attendance
  and behavior. Center of Research in Educational
  Policy (CREP) at the University of Memphis was
  provided with complete 2007-2008 database of
  Brain Hurricane.

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• CREP evaluates what works in the schools across
  nation and on comparing both the pre and posttest
  ITBS assessments it was revealed that the
  students of this tutoring program showed average
  gains of around 14. For further information,
  please visit http//www.brainhurricaneeducation.co
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