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."

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!

 Phone: 832-228-7835   Email: PlayBridgeWithThomas@GMail.Com

Susan Banks-Johnson is a Life Master who has been directing and teaching for many years and currently serves as the BCoH Head Director.  She is an accredited ACBL bridge teacher who loves helping beginner players.