Daniel Lindow

Lindow's "'Gifted' to 'Special'/Students Helping Students" project consists of gifted and special needs students meeting together once a week in the school library to learn strategy games like chess, Ultimate Stratago, Quoridor Classic, Go and others. Meetings consist of 30-minutes of hands-on instruction supported with either a video lesson or lesson related reading in the students' game booklets, whole class demonstrations and small group peer practice. Throughout the year, volunteers who are masters of the various games will come in for special demonstrations and instruction. These games teach students patience, foresight, long-range planning and the desire to apply oneself - characteristics that lead to academic improvement and improved behavior and success in school.