Our After School Program is a intentionally designed, experiential learning program focused on:
1. Athletics/fitness: More than the valuable skills of Korean martial arts -- we teach yoga, flexibility, parkour, tricking, and build all round speed, agility, and strength through our classes, games, and activities.
2. Scholarship: We build a positive system to reinforce the importance of education, life long education. In addition to teaching homework and study skills, we encourage and reward learning. Learning about leadership, focus, dealing with test anxiety, positive social behaviors at schools, bully prevention, tolerance training, and creativity.
3. Community Leadership: We believe that as martial artists we are called to a higher level of responsibility in terms of contribution in our communities. We teach how to take leadership roles, and work to make changes we want to see in the world. Kids explore topics of interest, and participate in service that is meaningful to them, and impactful to the community.
We are receiving reservations from around the island, and as there are fewer spaces available island-wide for after school programs we would like to offer to you the opportunity to hold your space ---
you can register online by clicking this link: http://mastdnts.com/?PR--bwgc
Some of the options that we are expanding in our curriculum: (I will write about more in an upcoming post)
Arts and Creativity:
Kids can participate in film making --- from script writing/planning, acting, video work, processing, editing, and posting their own on-line news show. "MIMA news" will enter its second year of production this year. Also this year kids will learn more about drawing, color, collage, painting, photography, and using the creative process as a way to express ideas, feelings, and develop the courage to create.
SPARK protocols: "In SPARK, John Ratey, MD embarks upon a fascinating journey through the mind-body connection, illustrating that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to menopause to Alzheimer's. Filled with amazing case studies (such as the revolutionary fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, that has put the local school district of 19,000 kids first in the world of science test scores), SPARK is the first book to explore comprehensively the connection between exercise and the brain. It will change forever the way you think about your morning run." this is from the Amazon summary of the materials -- here is the link to the book on Amazon. Master Wells went and heard him speak and has spent a lot of time and energy developing these principles in our afternoon program, and we are looking forward to offering the even greater benefit of this kind of training for the kids in the morning -- to prime them for great days of learning and engagement in schools. http://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-Brain/dp/0316113514
Hero Imagination Project: With HIP, we will be able to expand the curriculum and skills and awareness students will need to begin to translate their ambitions into reality. We believe that each of us possesses the ability to grow and to create meaningful and lasting change; a mindset that encourages our willingness to act on behalf of others or in the defense fairness and equality. This program gives an expansion of this work --- lead by Phil Zimbardo Ph.D. this project opens doors to our imagination and the creativity that we bring to our work with students.
I will post more about the additional curriculum --- keep an eye out for more curriculum info.
call us at 206 230-9050 --- or feel free to write me directly at : strongheart@mercerislandmartialarts.com
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