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Alternating student leaders each week boosts classroom agency, focus & confidence!

Alternating student leaders each week boosts classroom agency, focus & confidence!

BRAIN FACT

Brief movement can help students shift attention.

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SCHOOL YEAR IMPACT

Total Activities Completed

42

2025-2026

TEACHING

GRADE LEVEL

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Brain Power Wellness

Retreats

Our Retreats provide an opportunity for families, teachers, principals, and students to come together and learn the skills to foster positive relationships, self-awareness, and social-emotional growth. Through our interactive and engaging sessions, participants will be equipped with the tools needed to create and sustain a safe and supportive learning environment.

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Staff

STAFF RETREATS

This 2-day, 1-night retreat is an amazing way to help your staff destress and to connect.  We create time and space to connect with nature, with themselves, their colleagues and with their purpose as educators.  The BPW team facilitates a wellness class, waterfall hike, karaoke session and team building activities. 

*(Note: You will make a separate contract with Honor’s Haven for accommodations, the ropes course and karaoke)

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Leaders

CERTIFIED LEADER RETREATS

This 3-day training based in New York City provides additional school-wide support for your BPW Teacher Leader(s) to turnkey new mindfulness activities and facilitate a vibrant school-wide wellness program. We take a deep dive into school-wide monthly, weekly and daily wellness challenges that help bring the BPW program to life while integrating into other SEL school initiatives. Your Teacher Leader(s) become part of an elite network of BPW Teacher Leaders who regularly share curriculum and school-wide ideas with their colleagues.  Leader level includes access to advanced activities, materials as well as in-person reinforcement every eight weeks (for as long as they work at your school).

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Leaders

ADVANCED CERTIFIED  LEADER RETREAT

Our Advanced Leader training is a three day off-site retreat located in the beautiful Kartrite Resort 2 hours from New York City. This training.offers Certified Teacher leaders (level 1) the next and most meticulous level of training that BPW offers. CTL(level 2) provides a rich study of classroom management, our Advisory curriculum, Student Leadership Program and loads of practice on how to lead their colleagues in team building and self care. CTL 2 offers schools their own in-house staff the chance to independently lead many of the services that Brain Power Wellness trainers typically lead.  We also offer free live online and in-person reinforcement training for our BPW Leaders every 8 weeks (for as long as they work at your school).

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Student

STUDENT LEADERSHIP PROGRAM CELEBRATION

This is the training to take your BPW Student Leadership program to the next level!  We recommend you train 1-3 of your student leaders as Advanced Student Leadership Program ambassadors to oversee your school's student-led mindfulness, equity and holistic wellness school-wide initiatives. This 4-day workshop offers training on a range of topics (mindfulness; culturally responsive peer teaching; environmental consciousness; school-wide "passion projects," etc) and includes nature hikes, ropes course challenges and much more! 

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STUDENTS

ADVANCED STUDENT LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

This is the training to take your BPW Student Leadership program to the next level!  We recommend you train 1-3 of your student leaders as ASLP ambassadors to oversee your school's student-led mindfulness, equity and holistic wellness school-wide initiatives. This 4-day workshop offers training on a range of topics (mindfulness; culturally responsive peer teaching; environmental consciousness; school-wide "passion projects," etc) and includes nature hikes, ropes course challenges and much more! 

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PRINCIPAL

PRINCIPALS RETREAT

Held at Honor's Haven Resort in the beautiful Catskills Mountains, this 2-day retreat is designed to help Principals and Assistant Principals rejuvenate their physical, emotional, and mental health while learning how to effectively oversee school-wide Brain Power program implementation.

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PRINCIPAL

GREY FELLOWS RETREAT

The Gray Fellowship for Principal Excellence brings together 20 principals annually from across New York City public schools for a full year of transformative professional learning. The Fellowship is a cohort-based experience that develops self-knowledge, systems awareness, and provides continued support beyond the Fellowship. Brain Power Wellness hosts an annual week-long retreat with the Gray Fellows at Honor’s Haven Conference Center in upstate New York as well as regular reinforcement sessions throughout the year over the past 6 years.

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FAMILY

FAMILY RETREATS

This heartwarming 3-day long weekend retreat helps our families have fun, exercise and connect with each other.  Set at beautiful Honor's Haven, we spend time in nature, do yoga and tai chi, and engage in team building and collaboration training.  Students also engage in student leadership classes while parents participate in mindful parenting seminars.  Our culminating activity helps families focus on their love and gratitude for each other and to recommit to healthy habits to strengthen their family

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