Active Engagement Learning

Dr. Borynski has a doctorate in Chiropractic and a bachelor's degree in Exercise Science. She has been teaching for 15 years in healthcare education, primarily in Nursing and Medical Assisting, CNA education. She is a department chair for a regional college with 3 campuses and 200+ students and 25+ faculty. Her specialty is creativity and games in the classroom and she has spent the last 10+ years creating, teaching, and researching with this unique method. Mr. Patterson has a bachelor's in communication from SUNY at Buffalo and a master's in creative and Professional writing from Roehampton University. He had been teaching for 25 years in the creative composition field focusing on narrative structure and monomyth. He is the Dean for two campuses of 300+ students and 30+ faculty.

We believe in engaging students by meeting them "where they are at". This involves the active engagement of their minds and passions in the healthcare field. We do this through gamification of the content and getting from lecture only based learning. Lecture helps students retain 5% of the content while more active learning helps students to retain 40%+ with creative and high level learning activities.

Dr. Borynski has presented this method both regionally and nationally for individual colleges. She is passionate about spreading this learning method. Mr. Patterson presented at a regional level on story and it's use on personal branding and use in the classroom for increased engagement.

Dr. Borynski has a B.S. in Exercise Science from SUNY at Buffalo, a D.C. from D'Youville University, has a current DC license and a certification as a CCMA. MR. Patterson has a B.A. in Communication and Cultural Anthropology from SUNY at Buffalo and M.A. in Creative writing from Roehampton Universtiy in London, England.

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