 As
a division of People Making Progress, Chess Test Tutors is
a non-profit charity founded and designed by concerned parents
to heighten cognition, instill advanced decision making skills,
promote education and encourage students to become lifelong
learners as well as responsible citizens. Recognizing
that "An idle mind is the Devil's workshop," we
saw in chess a singularly effective tool to instill logic,
personal responsibility and an appreciation for intellectual
achievement. Like no other reasoning activity, chess provides
immediate consequences and immediate rewards.
Acknowledged as a "2007
Business Partner of the Year" by the California
Legislature Assembly, the County
of Los Angeles, the State Senate,
the Culver City Education Foundation
and Miller Toyota!
With a strong focus on intellectual achievement and personal
responsibility we at Chess
Tutors are more concerned with developing life masters than
chess masters. With
that in mind, Chess Test Tutors looks to help students develop
and refine life skills as well as their academic proficiencies.
Students learn under the guidance of a team of supplemental
educators who have been trained to make learning fun.
Our concentrated instructional techniques have proven to
enhance cognition, critical thinking, mental discipline and
problem solving skills in an atmosphere of fun.
As a pioneering California Certified Supplemental Educational
State Approval Providers, under the national Leave
No Child Behind initiative. Chess Test Tutors became
federally funded to provide Engish and math tutoring in 2004.
However, our Chess Tutorial services have been sustained and
have radically expanded do to the tremendous support of parents,
sponsors and public and private contibutions. (Special
thanks to the Weingart Foundation for their generous support).
We are proud to provide our services for the following school districts:
Inglewood, Long Beach, Culver City, El Segundo, Burbank,
La Mirada, Wiseburn, Manhattan Beach and LAUSD. In addition,
we have aligned our self with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Youth
Foundation to offer an educational and life affirming alternative
to a rampart gang culture and rapidly declining rates of literacy
and overall scholarship.
Breaking
Down Barriers . Bridging Communities
We partnered with the Los Angeles Times to promote reading
in the communities throughout Los Angeles fall of 2003. We
were designated as the exclusive chess program for Arnold
Schwarzenegger's All-Stars After School Youth Program in the
spring of 2004. Also, in the spring of 2004, two LAUSD schools
honored us for our contribution toward their receiving the
California Distinguished school designation.
Using rhymes, songs and poems, we are
proud to report we have already taught over 60,000 children
from every racial, cultural and economic strata of our greater
Los Angeles community. Ideally, however, we hope to attract
the attention and resources necessary to allow us to focus,
more exclusively, on communities with the greatest need.
Our Teaching Methodology
We use chess as a vehicle to capture students' interest in
learning. Our aim is to give students in the K—8th grades
confidence that they can learn the strategies and techniques
of chess and apply them to other areas of their lives. They
learn to take responsibility for every move they make in life
as well as on the chess board. In the most practical terms
they learn concentration skills necessary to master any academic
discipline. Chess Tutors is more than a teaching tool, it
is the instruction and application of life-skills.
Our Chess Tutors method
relies heavily on the Psychological Learning Theory, which
utilizes memory, pattern recognition, decision-making and
reinforcement. All of these concepts are reinforced during
our competitive chess sessions, enhancing cognitive skills.
We are training the young minds of
today for a greater scholastic achievement tomorrow. Chess
Tutors is an organized, insured and reliable organization.
Our staff handles all administrative issues and class scheduling
without imposing added responsibilities to school's staff.
What is Educators Plus
/ Supplemental Service Provider?
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Educators
Plus/Chess Test Tutors is an organized, insured and
reliable, non-profit, California Certified, Supplemental
Educational Service Provider. We provide a fun alternative
to attaining the rudimentary skills using our LearnStar
Technology. The student's progress weekly as we review
and reinforce the curriculum previously taught. Our
LearnStar content is developed from national and state
standards of each academic subject area.
To design curriculum appropriate in content
and cognitive level, LearnStar uses standards by numerous
national organization, some include: National Assessment
of Education Progress, National Council for Social Studies,
National Council for English and National Council of
Teachers of Arithmetic.
Our Instructors have been active making
serious learning fun for grades K-8th in schools throughout
Los Angeles some districts include Torrance, Hawthorne,
Manhattan Beach, Norwalk, Palos Verde's, Cerritos, Inglewood,
Lakewood, La Mirada and LAUSD.
The impact of our Supplemental Educators
in schools has been featured in the Our Weekly and Daily
Breeze newspapers, as well as in the local KCBS and
Channel 22 news. Our LearnStar Technology is a standards-based
solution for improving test scores featured in over
500 schools nation wide.
Educators Plus, founded in 2004, is an
outgrowth of the Chess Tutors program originally called
Chess Test Tutors. It is an English and math tutorial
company. In just a few short years, Educators Plus has
experienced a great amount of success. We are proud
to say we have been forced to hire over 50 employee's
to meet the need our excellent services have demanded.
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