EnTeam Blog
Why cooperation?
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. [...]
Operation Cooperation
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 [...]
Youth and Family Center Program
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 [...]
Apple pi in my eye
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 [...]
An update from Operation Cooperation
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 [...]
Mentoring to Change the World
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 [...]
The Purpose of Peer Mentoring
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, [...]