The process begins with gathering followers, which Rabin has a unique way of doing. With the future of in-person chess teaching in doubt, chess teachers may have to find other ways to make money.Īs I wrote in Chess and Twitch: Home Away from Home, making money via Twitch is possible. One of their first money-saving cuts may be in-person chess classes. Other school districts, in the United States and in other countries, may face financial difficulties during the 2020-2021 school year. The last time there were New York City school budget cuts, in 2009-2010, chess programs faced tremendous difficulties as memorably shown in the documentary Brooklyn Castle. ![]() ![]() In the fall, New York City schools may face over $221 million in budget cuts. Fortunately, my online courses for The University of Texas at Dallas will continue as usual this summer. With MOSAIC cancelling its June and July camps, I won’t be teaching chess in-person this summer. During past summers, I have worked for Coppell Gifted Association’s MOSAIC. I would rather work as a teacher for an established organization than recruit private students or develop my own classes and camps. The sales, networking, and business skills of an entrepreneur are separate skills from teaching. They don’t feel comfortable approaching a decision-maker (for example, a school principal) to propose online classes. They don’t enjoy finding their own private students. However, some instructors are not temperamentally suited to be entrepreneurs. Instructors should think of themselves as entrepreneurs. Each instructor should approach their own family, friends, and social media contacts to find online private students. Rabin encourages currently-unemployed school chess instructors to find other work. Evan Rabin (holding water bottle) teaching chess in Tanzania He hopes that teaching chess in the corporate world will expand at the same time that school chess programs seem poised to contract. However, Rabin has taught chess at law firms and other businesses. His third “Make a Difference Now-Teach Chess in Africa” trip, scheduled for July, has been postponed. Rabin is not planning summer chess camps, since in-person gatherings may not be possible by then in New York City. Rabin explains the current outlook, and what he recommends out-of-work instructors do, in a May 14th interview with Phil Rosenberg. When schools canceled their chess classes, instructors lost their jobs. Instructors with Premier Chess are independent contractors. Only about 10 of Premier Chess’s instructors still have work through Premier Chess. ![]() Thus far, only 10-15 of those schools have converted to online chess classes. Before the pandemic, Premier Chess had 48 instructors in 80 schools. But most schools did not switch chess classes to online, which meant that chess instructors lost their jobs.Įvan Rabin is the Chief Executive Officer of Premier Chess. Schools continue to offer academic subjects online. With schools closed, on-site chess programs are closed too. One casualty of the pandemic has been in-person chess classes.
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