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Crusaders Take the Summer CAAP Adventure

Our 2010 Crusade Adventure & Academic Program, which started in mid-July, is winding up this week! Over 100 middle school Crusaders participated in summer CAAP this year. Each group of students met at Roger Williams Middle School in Providence for 10 jam-packed days of team building, life skills, conflict resolution exercises, and leadership activities. They [...]

Top Crusaders Honored at McCoy

McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket was the place to be on Saturday, August 7. College Crusade families and staff gathered for a recognition ceremony to honor 24 graduating 8th graders who have the highest participation in our programs in their schools. CEO Todd Flaherty congratulated all the top 8th-grade Crusaders who were able to attend and [...]

Speeding Along the Ways to A’s

Ways to A’s has started! Our summer study-skills program for students who are joining The College Crusade this fall is packed with up-and-coming 6th graders from Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, and Woonsocket. Their coursework includes exercises in active listening, note taking, reading, and writing, memory improvement, test taking, learning styles, and time and classroom management.
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Follow Us to the “Ways to A’s”

Hundreds of new sixth-grade Crusaders are learning how to take notes, study for tests, manage their homework time, and handle many other challenges of middle school that they will face in the fall. It’s all part of our annual Ways to A’s study-skills course, which got underway at the Community College of Rhode Island this [...]

Summer Reading for 8th Graders

Cruaders, it’s time to choose your books for summer reading and book reports! Here are some suggested books if you are entering 8th grade in the fall. Remember these are only a suggestion. You may read any book you would like as long as it is a chapter book, age appropriate, and one that you [...]

Summer Reading for 7th Graders

Crusaders, ready to get started on your summer reading and book reports? Here are some suggested books if you are entering 7th grade in the fall. Remember these are only a suggestion. You may read any book you would like as long as it is a chapter book, age appropriate, and one that you [...]

Thanks to TG for Visiting

The College Crusade was grateful to receive a generous grant this year from the TG Public Benefit Grant Program. On May 27, TG came all the way from Texas to visit us! Our staff, board, alumni, and students were delighted to welcome Kristin Boyer, who is director of public benefit grants for TG. During her [...]

URI Student Group Welcomes Crusaders

On April 22, a busload of middle school Crusaders explored the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston campus under the guidance of P.I.N.K. Women, a student leadership organization. The mission of P.I.N.K. (“Powerful Independent Notoriously Knowledgeable”) is to educate URI and the surrounding community about issues that pertain to multicultural and ethnic female groups. PINK took [...]

Welcome to Johnson & Wales University

Now that’s a crepe! In a big finish to their April school vacation week, over two dozen middle school Crusaders enjoyed a daylong campus experience at Johnson & Wales University in downtown Providence. Hosting the visit was the JWU President’s Leadership Council, an organization of 65 academically successful students who serve as a liaison between [...]

Crusade Advisors will attend CYFAR 2010

Four Crusade Advisors will attend the Children, Youth and Families At Risk (CYFAR) 2010 Conference in San Francisco this spring! Jenniffer Rivera, Javier Cabrera, Kristina Moyet, and Mayamu Kamara have been hosting afterschool science workshops for Crusaders all year in four Providence middle schools in partnership with a CYFAR grant project at the University of [...]