by chesscla | Jan 25, 2021 | Articles
How Do We Define CHESS? CHESS is a support group that provides academic and elective courses for homeschooling families, as well as a graduation, a national homeschool honor society and annual dance. We connect homeschooling families with the community, courses, and...
by chesscla | Jan 11, 2021 | Articles
“Teach ART and PUBLIC SPEAKING on Zoom? Impossible!” At least, that was my first response right out of the chute. I initially wondered if it was desirable in any way. When we moved to remote learning mid-year, one of my most creative art students laughed and said,...
by chesscla | Nov 30, 2020 | Articles, Homeschool Moms
What led you to decide to homeschool? We started homeschooling for multiple reasons. We wanted to give our children a more personalized, one-on-one school experience. Class sizes are atrocious right now and we feel that more personalized attention helps children...
by chesscla | Aug 11, 2020 | Articles
About the author: Katrina Hadley has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with Distinction from the University of Kansas. She began her career at the National Security Agency analyzing encrypted messages, then moved on to Accenture, helping to develop a $15M enterprise...
by chesscla | Jul 1, 2020 | Articles
Practical Advice and Encouragement from a Former CHESS Student: Michael Brokate About Me: Hi, I’m Michael! I attended CHESS starting in 2015 until my graduation with the group in 2018. My favorite class would likely be Mock Trial with Mr. Jenkins or...
by chesscla | May 23, 2020 | Articles, Best practices
Cornell Style Note-taking Kimberly Glover, CHESS teacher and homeschool parent, shares about a helpful method of note taking that can be used in CHESS classes as well as at home. One of the most difficult things for me as a student was taking the information taught in...
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