Julie Halperin has been teaching bridge for more than 10 years, and loves teaching this fascinating game. She is a Sapphire Life Master, club director, certified ACBL TAP instructor and has an ACBL Best Practices Teacher certification.

"Teaching has always been my avocation. I have a degree in education and taught in the Philadelphia School system many years. I've taught most aspects of modern bridge, including beginner's bridge, 2/1 game force and defense. My aim is to help students "think at the table" and not just blindly learn and follow rules."

Barbara Phillips, B.Ed, MA., has been teaching Bridge for over 40 years, the last 18 in Conroe, Spring, and The Woodlands, TX. Teaching hundreds of students has earned Barbara the title "ACBL Star Teacher." Students nominated her for Teacher of the Year in 2013. Many "graduates" of her "99er" game have gone on to play in open games and become Life Masters. Classes taught include Beginning and Intermediate Bridge, Play of The Hand, Defense, Losing Trick Count, Two Over One Game Force and Team Tactics. Barbara currently is ranked Sapphire Life Master, holding over 3,700 points. She along with her husband, Charles Collins, has directed and taught Bridge on numerous cruises.

Bill Riley is a Diamond Life Master, certified ACBL director, as well as an outstanding and entertaining teacher.   Having taught Pediatrics for 40 years, he is now teaching bridge.

I'm a student of the game. I am not a results player: you can make a good bid and get a bad board, and you should be complimented. You can also make a bad bid or play and score well; in that case, you have to look at the board and find the mistake. It's the job of a good bridge teacher to help you understand and learn the right percentage choices, regardless of whether they worked on this hand or not -- because they put the odds on your side.

I believe in teaching principles, not rules; judgement not conventions; consistency not brilliance.

Principles will help you decide what to do in new situations.  Judgement makes you more successful in competitive situations, and getting to games that make (as well as staying out of games that don't make!).   Perhaps most of all is consistency: Letting your partner know what is in your hand, and not trying to be brilliant.  If brilliance were the right thing to do, it would be in all the books, it would be the 'normal' thing, because it worked!

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