EnTeam means learning to win together-- in other words, learning to reach goals on a win-win basis. I am often asked how we came up with the name "EnTeam." EnTeam is all about carefully examining definitions to words we use regularly but sometimes neglect to think about deeply. For example, people use the words "learning" [...]
General David Petraeus defined winning in a radically different way than past generals: Winning is achieving your objectives. (Petraeus, 2010) Although Petraeus is talking about how to win a war with the Taliban in Afghanistan, he is making a point that relates to many challenges in life: We win when we succeed in reaching our goals. If [...]
Like most children, my kids enjoyed playing soccer, basketball, baseball and other team sports when they were young. Sometimes, when a qualified coach was not available, I would coach their teams. During those years, my job was preparing market studies and teaching economics – especially the benefits of competitive markets. Most of my work was [...]
What is Operation Cooperation? It is a program in St. Louis, where third grade children from three different faith-based schools get together several times per year. The purpose of Operation Cooperation is to give these children, and their parents and teachers, the opportunity to solve problems collaboratively with those of different faiths, with the hope [...]
Last week EnTeam launched the first session of six for the Teen Mentoring and Employment Training at the Youth and Family Center on Cass Ave. in St.Louis City. This work is being led by EnTeam Executive Director, Ted Wohlfarth, who created an exciting six-week curriculum that helps students connect the mentoring skills they will learn to [...]
By Ted Wohlfarth Kids love to correct adults. A group of middle school students gleefully told me I was wrong when I said the number pi = 3.1416. And I was impressed that they could recite the value of pi to 7 decimal places. The value of pi came up because we were comparing [...]
EnTeam Organization has been working hard this fall with four different schools that are participating in our program, "Operation Cooperation". The schools working with us this year are: Al-Salam Day School, St. Monica School, Solomon Schechter Day School and Principia School. Third grade students, parents and teachers from the schools will come together four times this year to learn to work [...]
Written by: Frank Flavell Schools are businesses and their product determines the future of business not only in America, but all around the world. Their product is more than reading, writing and math, more than skills in communication, competition and cooperation, and it is more than the doors of opportunity that mastery of those skills [...]
Written by Matthew Frank Flavell What is the purpose of using peer mentoring in high schools? Imagine that you are a high school freshman. You are worried about making friends, afraid you won’t be accepted by your peers and upperclassmen, overwhelmed by a new school building with new teachers, and terrified by the higher [...]