We welcome input from the public, regarding how we might improve our service. Please send inquiries to Nathaniel Long at [email protected].
We also take requests for teaching. As we are beginning in Wake Forest, North Carolina, during our first phase (where we have no home base), we are pleased to teach for free anywhere that is local.
However, if you live in another city and still want to learn baduk from us, we might ask you contribute some money to help cover our travel costs, but not our time (a certain standard compensation per mile). If it is not too far, and if we can go there, we will certainly try to do so.
We also take requests for teaching. As we are beginning in Wake Forest, North Carolina, during our first phase (where we have no home base), we are pleased to teach for free anywhere that is local.
However, if you live in another city and still want to learn baduk from us, we might ask you contribute some money to help cover our travel costs, but not our time (a certain standard compensation per mile). If it is not too far, and if we can go there, we will certainly try to do so.
If indeed you do have a group (church, school, community group, Scout Troop, even just a small home schooling group), and you live in another city, hopefully, we could teach you in person for a certain amount of time, and then to minimize the expenses of travel, help to sustain your stronger learners online so that they could teach the others in your group. Over time, you could become independent and continual learners of the game.
We are happy to teach people from all walks of life. We welcome learners from every religious background, every "orientational identity," and every ethnic group, bar none.
We seek to maximize our influence in spreading the understanding of this fascinating, Oriental game. Accordingly, we want to emphasize not just the teaching of students (particularly in programs for children and youth), but at the same time, we want to teach the staff responsible for the ordinary teaching of these students in their whole program. To do this, we :
A) seek out and favor programs where the teachers and administrators (all who interact with these students we share) are highly committed to learning the basic rules of this game.
B) students are encouraged to assume leadership positions in the administration of their baduk club or class:
i. organizing tournaments, ranking systems
ii. refereeing games
iii. hearing disputes and even (where teaching staff encourage it) holding an honor court
iv. teaching new and first year students
This will move our staff at Cornerstone Baduk to be facilitators and secondary teachers, working primarily with higher level students. This will make better use of our skills, as well as maximize the pace of skills development for all students and for the growth of your baduk program as a whole. Most importantly, it gives your program independence and a self-sustaining momentum. Finally, this approach instills a pride in the students themselves, as they are in charge of so much more, and for that reason, should commit so much more enthusiasm and energy to the program.
Director: Nathaniel Long
We are happy to teach people from all walks of life. We welcome learners from every religious background, every "orientational identity," and every ethnic group, bar none.
We seek to maximize our influence in spreading the understanding of this fascinating, Oriental game. Accordingly, we want to emphasize not just the teaching of students (particularly in programs for children and youth), but at the same time, we want to teach the staff responsible for the ordinary teaching of these students in their whole program. To do this, we :
A) seek out and favor programs where the teachers and administrators (all who interact with these students we share) are highly committed to learning the basic rules of this game.
B) students are encouraged to assume leadership positions in the administration of their baduk club or class:
i. organizing tournaments, ranking systems
ii. refereeing games
iii. hearing disputes and even (where teaching staff encourage it) holding an honor court
iv. teaching new and first year students
This will move our staff at Cornerstone Baduk to be facilitators and secondary teachers, working primarily with higher level students. This will make better use of our skills, as well as maximize the pace of skills development for all students and for the growth of your baduk program as a whole. Most importantly, it gives your program independence and a self-sustaining momentum. Finally, this approach instills a pride in the students themselves, as they are in charge of so much more, and for that reason, should commit so much more enthusiasm and energy to the program.
Director: Nathaniel Long