PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA – Ace Academics is a math and science focused tutoring organization serving students from grades 2 through 12. Founder, Sal Enslin, is dedicated to helping her students develop self-confidence, curiosity, and a sense of personal agency in their learning processes. “Many students experience maths and science as a necessary evil. They think …
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Santa Fe Public Schools
SANTA FE, NM – Geoffrey Moon is a Gifted Education Specialist within the Services for Advanced and Gifted Education Department for the Santa Fe Public Schools. He first heard Josh Waitzkin speak at the National Association for Gifted Children conference in 2009, and has maintained an interest in bringing The Art of Learning principles to …
Lafayette Moraga Youth Association – Volleyball
LAFAYETTE, CA – LMYA is a non-profit organization providing year-round athletic programming for school age children. In addition to the traditional athletic experience, the girls’ volleyball program offers a unique combination of sports, staff management skill training, and technology training to their high school aged participants. The full program consists of over 500 athletes playing …
Barcelona Academy of Art
BARCELONA, SPAIN – Dorian Iten, Director of the Digital Art Program, uses principles from The Art of Learning with an aim to strengthen resilience and deepen the students’ awareness of their internal states. “Time and again I have found my insights from drawing and painting echoed in the principles Josh gleans from chess and the …
Aboriginal Head Start
EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA – The mission of the Aboriginal Head Start program is to strengthen and prepare the Aboriginal child with the cultural knowledge and emergent literacy skills needed to excel in school and life. April Prescott, the Individual Program Plan and Special Needs Coordinator, and coach and mentor to the teachers on staff, reached …
Plato’s Republic and The Art of Learning in modern education
by DENNIS DALTON I first met Josh Waitzkin before he had written The Art of Learning but after he had established his spectacular achievements in chess. Josh was an undergraduate in my Political Theory Barnard College course at Columbia University that I had taught there since 1969. This was a large lecture class but it …