Game Changers

Strategy, Executive Functioning & Social-Emotional Learning Through Games

Now enrolling for Fall 2026

Game Changers uses board games, card games, cooperative challenges, and strategy activities to strengthen executive functioning, communication, flexible thinking, and social-emotional learning, all in a motivating, playful setting.

What Your Child Will Practice

Rules & Directions

Students read, understand, and explain game rules, and remember and follow multi-step directions.

Strategy & Planning

Games invite students to plan ahead, weigh possible outcomes, and develop, test, and revise their strategies.

Flexible Thinking

Students adapt when circumstances change and respond constructively to mistakes and unexpected outcomes.

Turn-Taking & Perspective

Waiting, sharing participation, and considering another player’s point of view build cooperation and social awareness.

Mental Math & Patterns

Counting, mental math, logic, and pattern recognition come to life through play.

Sportsmanship & Reflection

Students manage winning and losing, practice persistence, and reflect on the strategies that helped, with respectful sportsmanship.

About Game Changers

Game Changers turns play into practice. Through strategy and cooperative games, students strengthen the attention, self-management, communication, and motor-planning skills that support learning and friendship.

Students learn to understand rules, develop and revise strategies, plan ahead, manage materials, and collaborate with peers, building persistence, decision-making, and the ability to adapt when circumstances change.

Educational focus: Executive functioning, strategic thinking, logic, mathematics, literacy, communication, self-management, flexible thinking, collaboration, responsible decision-making, and social-emotional learning.

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Program Details & Enrollment

Program Details

Recommended ages
7-9 and 10-12
Format
90 minutes weekly
Class size
Up to 6 students
Minimum 3 to open the class
Schedule
Thursdays, 11:15 AM to 12:45 PM · Fall 2026
Location
15265 Alton Parkway #140, Irvine, CA 92618 · View on Google Maps

Enroll

10-week Fall 2026 term. No materials fees.

Register below to enroll. At checkout, choose direct pay or charter funds. Paying directly? Full payment is required when you register, which confirms your child’s seat.

Using charter funds? We’re glad to work with your charter. Ask your Education Specialist or Facilitator to issue a Purchase Order or Enrichment Certificate to Tumble N’ Dots for this program and its dates, and send it to hello@TumbleNDots.com. No payment is needed from your family; we bill your charter for the full program cost. Your child’s seat is confirmed once we receive the Purchase Order. Please confirm we are an approved vendor with your charter before you register.

Registration and refunds
Each term is registered separately. Families paying directly receive a 90% refund for cancellations made more than 7 days before the start date. There is no refund for cancellations made 7 or fewer days before the start date, or after the program begins. Charter-funded families pay nothing and are billed through their charter.

Charter school families

We welcome charter school and homeschool families using instructional funds. There is no cost to your family for charter-funded enrollment; we bill your charter for the full program cost and send itemized monthly invoices. Our programs are nonsectarian and open to every student, and we can provide a Certificate of Liability Insurance and W-9 on request.

Ask your Education Specialist or Facilitator to approve Tumble N’ Dots as a vendor and issue a Purchase Order or Enrichment Certificate to hello@TumbleNDots.com. Full charter details are on our Home Schooling Enrichment page. Vendor approval, use of instructional funds, academic credit, course placement, and PE fulfillment are determined by your charter school.

Educational Enrichment Program Notice

Tumble ’N Dots Educational Enrichment Programs are supplemental group learning programs, separate from our clinical occupational therapy services. They do not include diagnosis, determination of medical necessity, individualized occupational therapy evaluation or plans of care, clinical treatment goals, healthcare progress notes, insurance billing, or superbills.

Within group instruction, instructors may use visual supports, modeling, activity modifications, and other strategies to improve access to the curriculum. These are educational supports within the group program, not individualized occupational therapy treatment. If a student may benefit from clinical occupational therapy, those services are offered separately and require a separate clinical intake.