The Knight School is the virally-popular children’s chess academy founded by Dr. David Brooks, certified educator and master of classroom fun! This fall The Knight School reached the milestone of teaching 1000 chess students each week using our high-energy, kid-focused, party-style approach to chess classes. From here in Birmingham, Head Coach David Brooks, Ph.D. coordinates a team of fifteen chess coaches who teach chess classes from Austin to Dallas to Washington D.C. Our enrollment is so enormous because we have developed the perfect recipe for a thrilling, high-energy, party-style chess class for kids.

Now The Knight School is ready to take our proven model and to expand to other cities in the USA! We are very selective, but if you are selected, a career as a The Knight School coach in another city carries with it the exciting potential to be

• Breathtakingly financially lucrative, considering that successful City Coaches at the end of their first year are eligible for the opportunity to receive a no-cost The Knight School franchise to the entire city and jump from their first-year $36,000.00 salary to earning fully 90% of all tuition collected in their city, minus their operating costs.
• Deeply personally rewarding, considering how much good we do for our students as chess coaches, instilling the academic confidence, critical thinking skills, and high-level creativity that lays down the mental pathways and logical thinking that stay with our students throughout their lifetimes.
• Profoundly spiritually liberating, considering that City Coaches are their own bosses and their businesses grow and prosper based exactly on how hard the City Coach grows it.

Dallas, Austin, Cleveland, Jacksonville, and Washington D.C. have already been established by coaches who trained first here in Birmingham, and now all the other cities in the USA await our revolutionary approach to the perfect chess class and the perfect career for a select group of professional, high-energy, responsible graduates.

No chess ability is required because we teach you all the chess you will need in one intensive week at one of our summer chess camps. The qualities you need to possess in order to be invited into The Knight School family of city coaches are dependability, a natural ability with a classroom of smart kids, a high level of professionalism, and a strong drive to make the world a better place, one chess student at a time. Those selected as City Coaches may launch The Knight School in another city immediately or may opt to spend one year here in Birmingham working as a Birmingham chess coach, getting trained, and discerning whether a move to another metropolis to establish a The Knight School location is a good fit for them.

We have perfected chess in Birmingham and we are now ready to partner with excited and professional people who share our mission to instill academic confidence, problem-solving, deep creativity, and critical thinking into a whole new population of America’s kids.

We in The Knight School open every single one of our weekly classes with the exact same question: "Welcome to The Knight School. How do you feel?" The kids all scream in a powerful, wall-paper curdling blast, "GREAT COACH!" and then, on Coach's exact cue, go into abject silence and settle in for the hilarious chess tactics lesson of the day. The coaches of The Knight School are powerfully driven to bring the joy of chess to every child in America. Founded by Head Coach and 20-year veteran classroom teacher David Brooks, Ph.D., the coaches in The Knight School bring our chess program into scores of schools each week. During our allotted weekly chess time, we initiate a unique, party-based, kid-focused, high-octane approach to learning chess and rocking a very fun chess tournament. The long, boring chess clocks, awkward required silence, mandatory chess notation, and friendless chess tournaments of our grandfathers' generation are gone!

In their place is The Knight School: fun movies, exciting driving music that accompanies our challenging chess puzzlers for candy prizes, our colorful silicone wristbands system in which each color connotes mastery of a different chess tactic, and daily chess tournaments where we actually play for each other's Mardi Gras beads! Laughter and friends and silliness abound and our chess classes ring every single kid-bell. In this party atmosphere, kids get better each week without even noticing. Many of our chess moms and chess dads report that TKS students develop amazing problem-solving skills, superior sportsmanship, and, perhaps most importantly, a whole new academic confidence that will subsequently color all the classrooms they will ever enter! Additionally, critical thinking and standardized test scores have been proven to be significantly enhanced by chess mastery.

We in The Knight School have been State Chess Champions many, many times, and our kids have a blast from their first moments as a lost, nervous beginner, to the moment when they suddenly realize they can destroy all the kids in their neighborhood in chess, to that proud moment when we hand the big shiny trophy to our principal. We in The Knight School are not primarily business people or primarily chess people; we are educators first, and we are powerfully, personally driven to complete the perfect childhood. Welcome to The Knight School! How do you feel?