Schools
Everyone Wins in E-Soccer
Saturdays this summer, high school service academy students are coaching children with a range of abilities and developmental differences in an inclusive soccer clinic.
Before heading to the pitch at Havens Elementary School to coach kids in the inclusive E-Soccer clinic, Piedmont high school students in the new have been spending time in the classroom learning how to work with kids with a variety of special needs.
E-Soccer organizes clinics in communities throughout the Bay Area. PHS teacher and AISCE Program Director Ken Brown, who's volunteered for seven years with the inclusive soccer program, says the classroom time has distinguished the Piedmont clinic.
"I have volunteered for E-Soccer for seven years, worked with kids from Davis to Gilroy, and have never been as impressed as I am with these kids from PHS," Brown wrote in an email. "The AISCE program has made all the difference in how successful these kids have been at working with peers who have special needs and building relationships along the way."