As a teacher of Gifted and Special Education and an avid chess player, I
have been interested in chess as it relates to education for well over 20
years. It all started at William Beagle, a small high-school in Surrey,
BC. The way I ran my chess club as a teacher was to run it hard, every
single lunch hour...no staff room breaks for me, but plenty of fun,
memories and CHESS. Through the years, the numbers would fluctuate between
4 to 30 members. It was during the times that I had 30+ students, I would
say to myself, "Why the ‘heck’ aren't I teaching this as a real course?!"
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