SymmetryLearningSystems is a comprehensive early learning to middle school science curriculum developed by experienced scientists using research-based teaching to coordinate learning with ongoing brain development.
SymmetryLearningSystems takes advantage of how and where the brain processes information, creates models, problem solves, and learns. It is a unique educational approach that provides an essential and pivotal foundation for organizing and facilitating learning.
We create tools based on well-established, brain-based foundational approaches to provide all students with the tools for effective and successful life-long learning. This extends from the earliest stages of development through adult education.
Beginning with the early learner Let’s Learn With Science Curriculum and extending through middle school Segments Curriculum, the integrated curriculum provides a framework for assessing and organizing thinking in a structured fashion, thus enabling everyone (including those with learning disabilities) to evaluate, organize, and understand knowledge across the educational spectrum.
We also train concerned parents and professionals in the principles of systems science, advancing the effectiveness of teaching with durability and transferability of learning.
Our mission is to counter the dilution and “dumbing down” of the science curricula and the progressive decline of science competency in the United States. We want to empower individuals by teaching students from their earliest stages of development through adolescence to be successful life-long learners and creators.
SymmetryLearningSystems will enable students to evaluate, organize, and understand concepts, content, and processes that span the educational spectrum. This program will train families and learners, enabling parents and professionals to apply the principles of systems science, thus advancing the effectiveness of teaching their children.
we are parents, educators, scientists, story tellers and so much more!
Dr. Bergethon is the founder of SymmetryLearningSystems and the founder and chief scientist of Invariant Research, Limited. The first 30 years of his career was spent in academic medicine as a physician-scientist. He was a Professor at Boston University and Tufts University in the Departments of Biochemistry, Neurology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, and Biomedical Engineering where he taught in the graduate and medical schools, was an Attending Physician in Neurology, and ran the Laboratory for Neurophysics and Intelligence Modeling at Boston University School of Medicine.
Dr. McCrone spent her career as an Infectious Disease physician, initially at Boston University Hospital, then at Steward Morton Hospital prior to devoting full time to developing the SymmetryScienceTM curricula. She graduated from Elizabethtown College with a BS in Medical Technology. She worked as a hospital microbiologist for several years, receiving a Master’s Degree in Clinical Microbiology from Jefferson University School of Graduate Studies prior to attending Jefferson Medical College, earning an MD degree. She completed an Internal Medicine Residence at Boston City Hospital, followed by an Infectious Disease Fellowship at the Combined Brigham & Women’s and Beth Israel Hospitals in Boston, MA. She is dual board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease and was certified as an HIV Specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine. In 2017, she received the O. F. Stambaugh Chemistry Alumni Award from Elizabethtown College.
Dr. Moss is a Cognitive and Systems Neuroscientist, Neuroanatomist, and Licensed Clinical Neuropsychologist with a background in Special and Public School education. His educational experience has included teaching children with special needs (ADHD, Dyslexia, Autism, and other developmental and intellectual disabilities) and teaching science, math, and biology to middle and high school students in a public-school setting. He is Waterhouse Chair and Professor Emeritus of the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology (and Neurology) at Boston University School of Medicine.
After a 20-year career in the United States Navy, Dr. Thomas became a Principal Investigator for the Laboratory for Human Neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine, where he is actively involved in cognitive and neurophysiological studies of individuals from diverse backgrounds. Dr. Thomas’s career has been interdisciplinary with special focus on the intersection of social science with neuroscience.
Dr. Betit is a pioneering educator who served as a staff founder of Landmark College, the first accredited college for students with diagnosed learning differences (he calls them “Distinctive Thinkers”). Here, he built a research and training institute serving a national and international clientele, focused on Distinctive Thinkers. At Landmark College, he served in senior leadership roles for virtually every division, including holding the portfolios of CFO, Executive VP, VP of Development, Dean of Admissions, and Provost. His efforts during this era were characterized by entrepreneurial innovations, incorporating contemporary findings in neuroscience and pedagogy to enhance a structured, multi-sensory learning environment, supporting the needs of Distinctive Thinkers to unlock their abiding potential.
Victoria is an educator, a pianist, composer, and conductor. After receiving a BA and MFA in music composition from Tulane University, Ms. Dolceamore trained at USC where she studied film composition with masters’ Jerry Goldsmith, Bruce Broughton and Buddy Baker. Since graduating from the Scoring for Motion Picture and Television Advanced Study Program, she has gone on to create original scores for national commercials, independent films and features for studios such as Columbia Tristar, Fox Family Channel and Lifetime. Victoria completed her doctorate degree in Education from Drexel University and continues her research focused on the importance and positive impact of performing arts and music education in schools K-12. She currently serves as an adjunct professor teaching music composition, music history, and music appreciation in the music department of the College of Performing Arts at Rowan University.
The Marty and Mary story enables children to relate directly to characters who are taking the same journey as your child. Let’s Learn With Science is the Early Learners program in the SymmetryScience program. Over the four sequential curriculum cycles of Let’s Learn With Science, Mary & Marty will be your child’s guide through the journey of learning science. They will Explore, Describe, Measure, and Model the world around them as they gain skills in scientific inquiry.
