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Eastern Shore Scholastic Chess, Inc. (ESSC) is a 501(c)(3) with the mission to help public schools establish Federal, local and community supported chess clubs.
Our current project is with Accomack County Public Schools on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. ACPS has recognized the academic and social benefits of chess to the student, and the consistency of the life-skills learned in chess with both STEM and Virginia Employment Readiness Skills educational objectives.
A consistent curriculum is being developed, based on the ChessKid.com system of incremental mastery of skills, augmented with teaching aids both borrowed from other successful programs and developed internally. This will make for a consistent program across schools which is easily learned by coaches. In areas such as ACPS, distant from other chess programs, both local interscholastic competitions and on-line competitions with schools and individual students from around the world become possible for the first time.
Our current project is with Accomack County Public Schools on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. ACPS has recognized the academic and social benefits of chess to the student, and the consistency of the life-skills learned in chess with both STEM and Virginia Employment Readiness Skills educational objectives.
A consistent curriculum is being developed, based on the ChessKid.com system of incremental mastery of skills, augmented with teaching aids both borrowed from other successful programs and developed internally. This will make for a consistent program across schools which is easily learned by coaches. In areas such as ACPS, distant from other chess programs, both local interscholastic competitions and on-line competitions with schools and individual students from around the world become possible for the first time.