Coaches' Meeting for Developmental Tournaments

Hi everyone!

Our Season 2 for Scholastic Basketball Camp's Developmental Tournaments are set. Please be reminded of the Coaches Meeting on October 5, 2019, Saturday.

Check out our FB Page at Creative Interventions for further details and announcements.

See you soon!

Go For Gold – NBTC Coaches Convention 2019

The Coaches Convention of the National Basketball Training Center took place March 22-24 at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City. There were several speakers who shared their expertise on different areas of basketball.

Resource speakers were:

• Mr. Ardy Abello, a John C. Maxwell-certified leadership team coach on the :Importance of Leadership in Sports and Coaching"

• Coach Vincent Ong, Singapore Head for Youth Coaching of National Youth Sports Institute on "What makes a Great Coach"

• Dr. Jose Raul Canlas, an Ortho[oedic Surgeon with Sub-specialization in Sports Medicine on "Hydration and Injury Prevention". I was lucky enough to have met Dr. Canlas some years ago. I was one of the teachers of his son in middle school. He would also be watching on the sidelines during the games of his son.

• Ms Joy Reyes of Philippine Sports Commission on "Identifying Young Talent". I loved this topic and i spent abour fifteen minutes talking to her after her session. She was all ears and gave me her ideas on the thoughts I shared to her.

• Coach Dan Rose, a veteran strengthening and conditioning coach, on "Secrets to Ultimate Training Without the Weights"

• Metta World Peace on "Defense and Basketball Opportunities Globally 

• Coach Nash Racela on "Offensive Concepts for High School Basketball"

• Coach Rob Beveridge for AUS Basketball, on "Öffensive Concepts for Player Development"

• Coach Tab Baldwin on "Game Tactics" 
  

Here is my recording of Coach Rob Beveridge's Saturday night session:

 


Thank you NBTC!

Founders' Cup: Day 4 Match Results

Scholastic Basketball Camp-Founders' Cup: Day Four of the 1st Founders' Cup is over and as we move into the fifth and final day of double-round elimination on February 9, let us review the results and the team standings so far:

Here are the games:

Game 1: 16 & Under La Trinidad Academy(Win: 71) vs SV Montessori(40)

Game 2: 12 & Under Charis Christian Institute(Win: 51) vs SV Montessori(23)

 

Game 3: 12 & Under La Camelle School(Win: 40) vs La Trinidad Academy B(18)

Game 4: 16 & Under Charis Christian Institute(Win: 88) vs La Camelle School(81)

Game 5: 12 & Under La Trinidad Academy A(Win: 51) vs SV Montessori(23) 

Game 6: 12 & Under La Trinidad Academy B(Win: 49) vs Charis Christian Institute(24)

Founders' Cup is an offshoot of Scholastic Basketball Camp. It is aimed at providing schools and its players opportunities to play the game of basketball against schools of the same profile: No Senior High School program, small population, NO RECRUITMENT of student-athletes and by-invitation-only.

Please explore this blog and check the updated Team Standings which you can find on top.

Congratulations everyone!

Update: Creative Education Interventions

Hello everyone!

It has been months, about five months may I say, since the last time I shared something on this blog. We have been very busy with our preparing the next generation. Our voluntary work at CEI, (Creative Education Interventions) has given has more opportunities to share our STAR Values in the areas of academics, basketball, chess and community service learning.

First stop, our work in Scholastic Chess Camp allowed us to train and prepare chess coaches in running their own chess camps and sessions among developmental players by giving individual consultation sessions with several coaches in the province of Cavite. We also had a hand in helping a school select a coach for their developmental program in chess. A planned year-end tournament would have been a great way to finish strong in 2018 but it wasn't meant to be. Maybe in 2019. We still are offering individual chess lessons among the select few.   

In basketball, Scholastic Basketball Camp has taken a major breakthrough for CEI in the last quarter f 2018 and spilled-over to 2019. Who would have thought that we will go on to stage a successful 3x3 Age-Group Basketball Tournament in October and November? And from the network we have established in several Barangays in Imus and Bacoor, we were tapped to be the Commissioner for Founders Cup of Scholastic Basketball Camp. And in the late  2017, we got our first-ever basketball championship at the Association of Private Schools of Imus City Friendship Meet.

In the academics, Teacher C is still at the helm of our after-school reading education and tutorial work. Who would have thought?

And this year, 2019, I volunteered to run an online journal for my son's Cavite Football Academy. You can visit the site here. You can show support by clicking FOLLOW and sharing it to you friends on your social media accounts. I beg you, please share.

I tried to make my YouTube account useful by uploading photo-videos of CEI projects in the last quarter of 2018 and you can visit them there ==> Coach Francis. 




Most probably I'l be giving updates regularly this year. See you soon guys!

End of Scholastic Chess Camp 2016

Today we had the final day of Scholastic Chess Camp 2016 @ Wack Wack Golf and Country Club. We celebrated our last day by playing in several chess tournaments online-- at chessDOTcom and Chesscube. It was fulfilling to see my newest camper, Mike Al win his first championship over at chessDOTcom. Mike Al's only goal was to rank up his rating to at least 1200 but at the end of the day, his rating was much higher than Drew dlr.

"I've done it coach!" -Mike Al

Drew dlr placed fourth in a tournament where we both qualified to join in and in fact we played against each other in the 4th round. I will surely miss this boy as he moves on to high school. I have high hopes for him in his academics and when he represents his school in chess in the next four years. This year he will be reunited with David F and other former teammates. I'm sure they will bring pride and honor to their school.


Sandro F was quite a bit confused the entire 2 weeks of chess camp but the good thing is that he was aware of it. Mike and Drew were very supportive of him and that they made sure they offered help when Sandro needed one. Sandro would need to put in more "chess time" this summer so he can provide the necessary points for us to win our sixth MISAA Chess tournament this coming school year. Fingers crossed.

I have posted several photos of our day-to-day activities in the last eight days on our Official Facebook Page.


I would like to thank everyone who supported our camp especially the Lola of Sandro F for allowing us to use her place as our venue, thanks Ma'm!

Thank you too to the parents of our campers, Drew dlr and Mike Al, for entrusting their kids' chess development to me in the last six years.

Thanks be to God!

And with that, I officially begin my summer break.

Hanggang sa muli!  

Chess Camp 2016 @ Wack Wack Village

Our Chess Camp 2016 begins tomorrow at Wack Wack Golf and Country Club. We are on our fourth year of offering this by-invitation-only chess camp. Everything is set and everyone's rarin' to push those pawns and pieces.

Scholastic Chess Camp 2016 will run for eight sessions from June 6-9 and 13-16 with weekend breaks including Fridays.  I'm in the process of having a guest player join our camp on our last day for our tournament. Hope this one pushes through.

Summer Time 2016

It is summer time for me and last weekend one of the things in my "must-do" list was accomplished: fix the roof before the rainy days become typhoon days. Water spout cleared and installed, roof nails hammered-in and sealant was applied all over.

I have six weeks for this summer break and I intend to make it as productive as I can. Tomorrow my daughter's teammates are coming over for a two-hour basketball training. I haven't met any of the girls in the team but my daughter P cautioned me that everyone's on the beginner level. And with that, I plan to follow the fundamental drills used by Coach Aik Ho in his basketball clinic in New Zealand:


And so I review the video.

Scholastic Interventions

Scholastic Interventions is a dream, a project and a mission by our family: Francis, Claire and our four kids Pat, Free, Migs & Fids.

Scholastic Interventions (SI) is envisioned to give and provide interventions in the areas of academics, sports and events by providing workshops, mentoring, coaching and consultancy in the academe and baranggay communities.

SI has been working with kids of all abilities in several places, community-based and school-based settings. Since 2004, we have reached out and provided privately-sponsored activities like chess camps, basketball camps, teacher training development and events organization. Work in the areas of Marian Spirituality has always been the main motivation of Francis and Claire.

As of April 2016, we have decided to change our name (and dream) from Creative Education Interventions to Scholastic Interventions to reflect a more realistic description to what we have been doing:  doing interventions in the context of scholastic endeavors: teacher training and development, reading camp, chess camp and basketball camp.

To date, Scholastic Chess Camp and Scholastic Basketball Camp are the two major projects we use to help spread and promote Marian virtues and teachings together with the basics of the two sports. We have produced several student-athletes in the last twelve years and they are now giving back by assisting us in our weekend projects in Cavite, Quezon and Manila.

Help us in our endeavor, pray with us and promote physical, spiritual, academic health and wellness among the youth of our nation. Anywhere you may be.

It is worth mentioning that in the last couple of years, Jason F of OBBO Socks has been helping us in bringing our Scholastic Basketball Camp in Imus City.

For the Glory of God, in the service Men.

Semper Ad Meloria!