Our Chess Academy

I enjoyed Chess Academy, as a special educator, It gave me the flexibility of modifying some of the math, many of the math problems were on the state testing, which gave the students additional practice. The students and I enjoyed the books, we read them together, orally and silently and then had our own book discussions and practice some of the chess moves the books talked about on our own chess boards. My students that were more advance than others played other students in other rooms as well as the coordinator on site. Our coordinator was a motivator, as well as an instructor, reminding students what moves were legal and illegal. Our class made Chess Academy uniquely ours.