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Better Brains 4 Better Lives

Stronger Brains Limited

Stronger Brains is an innovative, evidence-based brain training program designed by a team of world-leading neuroscientists that empowers students to measurably strengthen brain function through neuroplasticity.

  • Online

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed elsewhere and adapted for Australian schools, Developed elsewhere but applicable for Australian schools, Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Mental Health Coordinating Council MHCC; Approved elsewhere: SA

Product type: Program; Fact sheets; Online resources (e.g. videos, games, tools, readings); Activity sheets; Student activities; Professional learning; Presentation by an expert or speaker ; Whole school approach or initiative; Wellbeing monitoring service, platform or tool; Learning modules; Class lesson plans

Contact details

Stronger Brains Limited
ABN: 90 614 556 517

https://strongerbrains.org/

Wendy@strongerbrains.org

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

  • Self-esteem and body image

  • Respectful relationships and consent education

  • Suicide and self-harm

  • E-safety and digital literacy

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

  • Technologies

  • Science

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1), Whole class universal (Tier 1), Targeted small group early intervention (Tier 2), Intensive individualised approach (Tier 3)

Communities: Diverse cultures or language groups, Neurodiversity or disability

Context: School or centre-based, Outside School Hours Care (OSHC), Home-schooling, E-schools

Main beneficiaries: Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained

Aims & approach

Stronger Brains aims to help all students, empowering them to understand why they act the way they do. The program builds resilience, strong mental health, improved decision-making, and increased brain capacity, setting them up to learn and gain confidence in driving successful outcomes in life.

An initial cognitive assessment guides each student's adaptive program consisting of brain training, brain health education lessons and social and emotional wellbeing exercises. The brain health assessment is undertaken through online cognitive exercises, providing a 'real time' measurement of cognitive strengths and deficits.

Engagement in the program itself involves activities to learn brain facts, brain calming, and strategies for wellbeing, followed by online brain training. As the brain strengthens and increases in capacity, the time spent brain training will increase.

Scientific evidence shows that 30 hours of braining training creates permanent change (through neuroplasticity) in the brain. This is measured in a brain health assessment at the end of the program to review and analyse de-identified individual progress.

Program delivery:

  • Based on a Train-the-Trainer (teacher/facilitator) approach, which builds capacity within the school and a knowledge bank to share.
  • Access to an online portal enables teachers to monitor student progress daily, and Stronger Brains provides analysis of deidentified individual data.
  • Usually spans across 20 weeks, but can be delivered flexibly to fit in with school timetables and curriculum deliverables.
  • It can be tailored to schools' needs and specialised cohorts.
  • Dosage is dependent on student capacity, with the suggestion being 3-5 days a week, up to 45 minutes daily.
  • Cost: student per semester + teacher per annum for training and support + school for software licence, data analysis and reporting.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
  • Implementation training webinars or modules
  • Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support
  • Regular webinars or access to community of professional practice

Evidence

Stronger Brains is based on sound evidence with over 150 peer-reviewed, scientifically-validated research studies improving attention, brain speed, memory, people skills, and executive function.

The impact of Stronger Brains programs is supported by positive outcomes found in internal evaluations, as well as feedback from educators and parents about students' experiences with the programs. Further evidence here.