Principals Area

The Benefits of Chess

Chess can bring excellent benefits to your school. Researchers from around the world reveal that chess is improving critical thinking and problem solving skills in children. Higher math and reading test scores among chess players is one of the most significant benefits. Social and emotional maturity is another. The list goes on and on. Does your school have a chess club? Give us a call soon so we can schedule your school for chess lessons!

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Help Bring Chess Alive!

Principals, here is your chance to bring something truly unique to your school! Using songs, stories, and dances, Academic Chess can bring the game of chess to children in a fun and exciting way. This wonderful learning experience not only teaches children to play chess now, but also prepares them for life later by enhancing their critical thinking skills, mental discipline, problem solving, and self-esteem skills.

We make chess cool for kids! A chess lesson consists of a 30 minute lesson taught by a dynamic Academic Chess instructor. A two-dimensional demonstration board aids in our presentation style lessons. We also use giant posters of our characters, or cartoon versions to help children understand chess concepts. Lessons are followed by 30 minutes of playtime on a tournament set that Academic Chess provides. The instructors supervise the players and often play multiple games against students at once!

We can start the chess program at your school by offering a free instruction to the whole student body and staff or by starting with an After-School club. The free program is scheduled for two weeks and we would like to visit all the classes in the school. We would teach the basics of chess to students in their own classroom! The lessons include piece movement, check and mate, draws, and sometimes the scholars checkmate and fools checkmate. Once the presentation is over we then offer our After-School program to the interested kids.

The After-School program is a low cost fee based program paid for by the parents of those who wish to join the chess class. Students enrolled will receive more chess instruction, exclusive Academic Chess booklets and worksheets, and compete for various prizes including posters, certificates, and even T-shirts! Tournaments are scheduled throughout the year and students can play for real chess trophies! All lesson plans are designed to meet the needs of all levels of chess students. Scholarships are made available if needed with a call to our office.

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Getting Started at Your School

If you decide to have the free classes and enrichment course prorgram at your school, use the In School Signup Sheet to sign up! Fill out the times in the top boxes, the day of the week and dates in the side boxes, and the classes to visit with teacher name, grade and room number in the large boxes. Make sure to contact our office to schedule the event for your school. We are happy to provide this free service to help us establish a good relationship with your school and our community.

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Below are some sample flyers so you can see the format we use to let the parents and students know about our enrichment courses. We have two formats, the single session flyer, and the multi session flyer. These flyers are sent home to offer our program to the students. We have all of our flyers approved by the Communications Department at the district. We also fill out Facilities Usage forms accordingly. The flyers are featured on our website as well so that parents are able to keep up to date with our activities.

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Please help us promote chess in our schools! It brings many benefits and is not as hard to create a program at your school as you may think. We are willing to do PTA meetings and staff meetings to introduce our teaching style to the staff and parents before hand. We are also capable of scheduling a sit down meeting with you to explain how the program works and discuss any concerns you may have for your school. We are very flexible. Give it a try!