After School Learning in the Heart of Westborough
Our game-based method helps students gain skills that lead to life success, both academic and beyond. Fall Enrollment is OPEN!Nomizo’s after-school program uses games, investigations, and social interactions to develop each student’s capabilities across the following Skill Sets:
Critical Thinking
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Cooperation & Determining trust
Fundamental Math
- Real world understanding
- Algebraic thinking
- Data Analysis
Peer Facilitation
- Emotional intelligence
- Community building
- Authenticity of leadership
Rigorous Investigations
- Thorough analysis
- Unbiased thinking
- Findings of fact
- Verbal persuasion
What Do We Do?
Hear what real students and parents have to say about Nomizo:
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The benefits of Nomizo
Develops critical thinking and intellect
Our program encourages curiosity and active participation and thinking, helping students build strong analytical and problem-solving skills.. Life’s challenges don’t sit still so success requires dynamic thinking that considers strategy and tactics. Your strategy gives you direction. Tactics describe the specific actions to take along the way.
Cultivates a love for learning
By making learning fun and rewarding, students are motivated to explore and learn more, which contributes to their overall enthusiasm and intrinsic motivation for education
It’s fun
Who wouldn’t rather learn by playing a game? So much of learning is about focus and dedication, which many students do not feel in traditional classroom and tutoring settings. Since students like to play board games, and almost everyone likes to win, the focus comes naturally.
Transferable Skills for the Future
Our program equips students with critical life skills that are highly valued in today’s world. According to research by 80,000 Hours, skills such as complex problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making are among the most important for employability. Our program emphasizes these very skills. By mastering these abilities, students not only excel in their academic endeavors but also gain a competitive edge for future career opportunities, ensuring they are well-prepared to succeed in a rapidly changing world.
Frequently Asked Questions
What's with all the board games?
- Highly Social: Nomizo’s board game curriculum drives healthy and positive in-person interactions. Whether collaborating to defeat a global pandemic, identifying who among them is the murderer, or forming an alliance with France to invade Germany, Nomizo’s students can enjoy a screen-free opportunity to connect with peers.
- Visual Learning: Done properly, board games bring educational concepts to life. From a young child visually counting out her piece’s movement to a teenager playing a side in the Afghanistan War, board games can lead to deeper understanding.
Why not focus on mastering a particular game, like chess, instead of working with a wider range of games?
The Nomizo Method views games as fun and engaging tools for developing real life skills, not as ends in themselves. Each individual game, even a wonderfully rich one like chess, focuses on particular skills, without necessarily developing a broad range. Therefore, mastering just one game, no matter to what degree, leaves a student deficient in far too many areas. As an example, the greatest chess players in the world have zero interpersonal skills because they are literally computers. Deep Blue may have known every possible chess opening, but it hadn’t any idea how to speak to coworkers or argue a point.
Will Nomizo also help my child with school?
Nomizo is very different from traditional tutoring, which might prove to be exactly what your child needs. Albert Einstein is often attributed with saying, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” So if your child is struggling with school then why should more school and more worksheets be the solution?
Nomizo’s curriculum has a few key benefits to assist your child’s schooling:
- Visual Learning: Nomizo’s learning is highly visual, allowing your child to engage with the materials.
- Less Frustration: Nomizo evaluates your child’s mastery level to place him or her in activities that will challenge them to take an attainable next step. By adapting to the child’s existing level we avoid putting them in impossible situations that only lead to frustration.
- Inspiration: As students gain confidence with Nomizo’s various challenges they’ll have an incentive to make sure their key school fundamentals keep up. For example, a student wanting to take on higher level strategic games may find their math to be a limiting factor. Suddenly they have a reason to learn it other than their parents or teacher telling them to do so. “Necessity is the mother of innovation.”
For those students excelling in school, Nomizo can help prepare them for success in higher education. Nomizo’s Rigorous Investigations require the same type of analysis and information finding used in liberal arts courses.
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Monthly Program Options
Standard 1 Hour Class
1x Per Week=$110
2x Per Week=$200
Standard 1.5 Hour Class
1x Per Week=$125
2x Per Week=$225
3x Per Week=$300