If a teen is doing music or sports or academics, those are the cells and connections that will be hardwired. If they're lying on the couch or playing video games or MTV, those are the cells and connections that are going to survive.

Dr. Jay Giedd

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Inter-Generational Connections Key to Enriching Learning

In the New Horizons Project the elder community members act as mentors to students working on independent study projects, thereby greatly enriching the school programming. The school utilizes the wealth of experience, knowledge, skills and wisdom of the older citizens, and the whole community benefits as a result.

Breaking Down Walls to Integrate Arts into Learning

ArtsSmarts is the largest education initiative in Canada dedicated to improving the lives and learning capacity of Canadian children by injecting arts into their academic programs.