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 Neil Dietsch | Apr 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
I expect many of you who have been through the Granite Gambit program and are using chess in the classroom are looking forward to the upcoming Summer break. Those of you who have been using chess in the classroom have piqued students’ interest with this amazing...
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)...
