The Brain Power Initiative thanks the following companies for their support of the Brain Power conference:
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PLATINUM MEDIA SPONSOR
Today’s Parent
Today’s Parent has been the “go-to” magazine for families for more than 25 years. With a circulation of approximately 165,000 copies, it’s read by about 1.7 million Canadians every month. It covers a complete range of topics, like health, education, behaviour and nutrition, and tries to entertain readers with expert advice and tips from real families. The goal is to provide readers with relevant information so they can make decisions that are right for them and their families.
GOLD SPONSOR
TVOParents
TVOParents.com is a community resource for advice, news, interactive tools, and the latest educational research. It’s all designed to help you help your kids succeed in learning, and in life. TVOParents.com brings together parents, caregivers and education experts from across the province in a welcoming online community
Our Kids
Our Kids is the trusted source to help families find top private schools, camps and extracurricular programs. Powering the most comprehensive directory of schools and camps in Canada, Our Kids enables families to research and compare profiles to find the best choice for their child. With hundreds of articles and advice guides on child development, education, special needs and parenting, Our Kids is the largest multimedia publisher within this sector.
Our Kids multi-device channels enable families to access information on all platforms: in-person, print, online, and mobile.
Visit OurKids.net to learn more.
Yamaha Music
Since 1887, when it began producing reed organs, the Yamaha Corporation in Japan (then Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd.) has grown to become the world’s largest manufacturer of a full line of musical instruments, and a leading producer of audio/visual products, semiconductors and other computer related products, sporting goods, home appliances and furniture, specialty metals, machine tools, and industrial robots .
Yamaha Canada Music Ltd. was set up in Winnipeg in 1969. The Yamaha Music Education program in Canada took roots in Winnipeg. In 1976 the head office was moved to current location in Scarborough (Toronto), Ontario.
Exclusive Child Care Services Provider
Kids & Company
Kids & Company, a proudly Canadian company, works directly with family-oriented corporations to develop progressive child care options that help address employees’ work-life balance and productivity. By partnering with Kids & Company, top tier companies from a variety of industry sectors, are able to add child care assistance, including guaranteed full-time, part-time and emergency back-up care, and elder care to their suite of employee benefits. Certain locations also offer community based child care. Co-founded by Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi in 2002, Kids & Company is committed to continuing its expansion of high quality and consistent child care services in every region across Canada. For more information visit www.kidsandcompany.ca.
SPONSORS
Arrowsmith
Arrowsmith Program refers both to the Arrowsmith Program methodology and also to our affiliated organizations that make the Arrowsmith Program available to public and private schools in Canada and the United States. The Arrowsmith Program is founded on neuroscience research and over 30 years of experience demonstrating that it is possible for students to strengthen the weak cognitive capacities underlying their learning dysfunctions through a program of specific cognitive exercises.
Baycrest
Headquartered on a 22-acre campus in Ontario and fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, Baycrest is the global leader in developing and providing innovations in aging and brain health. Baycrest is unique in the world, combining a comprehensive system of care for aging patients, one of the world’s top research institutes in cognitive neuroscience, dedicated centres focused on mitigating the impact of age-related illness and impairment, and unmatched global knowledge exchange and commercialization capacity.
Brain Injury Association of Canada
The Brain Injury Association of Canada (BIAC) provides a shared forum for the support of both families and survivors. BIAC also advocates for the enhancement of support services. Prevention through public education, and safety legislation is the key to the reducing the occurrence of acquired brain injury (ABI) amongst Canadians. BIAC engages in extensive public education initiatives through its many local community associations across Canada. Neuroscience and injury prevention research is another key to addressing ABI. The Brain Injury Association of Canada endeavours to support and promote research in Canada and internationally.
Cookie Jar
The Cookie Jar Group of Companies is one of the world’s leading independent entertainment and consumer products companies with offices around the globe. Cookie Jar Entertainment is a leader in the creation, production and marketing of animated and live-action programming. Its library of nearly 6,000 half-hour episodes of television features some of the world’s most recognizable series including Caillou, Inspector Gadget, Arthur, The Doodlebops and Johnny Test. The company controls Cookie Jar TV, the weekend morning block on CBS, and has a one-third interest in international children’s television channel KidsCo. Cookie Jar Entertainment’s Jaroo.com is the premiere Web video destination for kids with the largest independent selection of full-length children’s TV series and movies online. Copyright Promotions Licensing Group, (CPLG) Cookie Jar’s full-service international licensing agency, represents numerous entertainment, sport and design brands such as Strawberry Shortcake, Richard Scarry, St. Andrews Links, Harlem Globetrotters, and Skelanimals.
London Children’s Museum
Every year the London Children’s Museum provides over 100,000 children and their families the chance to make memories that last a lifetime. Children who visit learn how the world works, who they are, and who they might become in the way that they learn best – through play.
Montessori
Montessori House of Children (MHC) was founded in 1968 by John and Ann Marie Harding. The school was an offshoot of the London Montessori group, founders of the first Montessori School in London in September 1965. Today, MHC is one of the foremost Montessori schools in Canada and in North America. It serves approximately 400 children and their families annually, with the support of over 70 full- and part-time faculty and staff.
The Royal Conservatory
The Royal Conservatory is the largest and oldest independent arts educator in Canada, serving more than 600,000 active participants last year. Based in Toronto, Canada, it offers extraordinary opportunities for learning and personal development through music and the arts in all Canadian provinces and increasingly in a number of international settings. The Royal Conservatory is committed to developing human potential through leadership in music and arts education.
Spirit of Math
Spirit of Math Schools is Canada’s largest after school mathematics enrichment program exclusively for high performing students with a B+ or higher average in grades 1 to 11. Locations across North America currently serve over 2500 students.
The curriculum focuses on problem solving, core math concepts, automaticity of basic number facts, and cooperative group-work. Students attend a 1½ hour class each week taught by university educated, professional teachers throughout the regular school year. Students and alumni have achieved outstanding results, consistently dominating the national mathematics honour rolls.
Spirit of Math’s passion for developing materials for high-achieving students led to the development of the Releasing the Genius series of books and the Spirit of Math Drills app for iPad. Spirit of Math has been featured on CBC, CTV, W5, Breakfast Television, Rogers Daytime, the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Readers Digest and Macleans.
TFS – Canada’s International School
TFS – Canada’s International School is a bilingual, co-ed school that educates students from age 2 to university entrance. TFS provides its students with an international perspective, through the combined strengths of the curricula of the Ministry of Education of Ontario, the Ministry of Education of France and the International Baccalaureate programs.
How to Become a Sponsor
If you are an academic institution or a company with an interest in neuroeducation and would like to be a part of this revolutionary event, please contact:
Petar Josic
T 647-724-0957
E petar@brainpowerinitiative.com
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