by Neil Dietsch | Sep 5, 2024 | Blog, Classes, Professional Development
We are pleased to report that the Granite Gambit program continues into the new school year with several activities, including school visits from Jerry Nash and Chess in Education – US in September. You will need to act quickly if you wish to take advantage of...
by Neil Dietsch | Jul 27, 2022 | Professional Development
Last year, Barbara Cook told her fourth-grade students that once they finished their class assignments they could either read, do homework, play an online math game or learn how to play chess. She never expected all 19 of them to choose chess. For the rest of the...
by Eric Schlapak | May 25, 2022 | Professional Development
Those of us involved in chess like to think. We have an email group at Chess in Schools, and recently a member posted an article about connections between chess and mathematics. Specifically, it referred to Singapore and reported school math success there. Having...
by Neil Dietsch | Jan 5, 2022 | Press Release, Professional Development
Article by Eric Schlapak, M.Ed, J.D. Schlapak is a math teacher at Dover High School in New Hampshire, education consultant, writer, and certified Chess in Education Instructor. Those in their 50s and 60s may recall that it was 50 years ago this year when Bobby...
by Neil Dietsch | Oct 19, 2021 | Professional Development
Eleven teachers were members of the first cohort of educators to be trained under the state’s Granite Gambit program. The certification is sanctioned by the US-based Chess in Schools and the European Chess Union, an international leader in the Chess in Education (CIE)...
