CruBlog

Crusaders, it’s a new year, and you have a lot to look forward to on Saturdays. Come to Johnson & Wales University Harborside Campus to see why!
Our 2010 Saturday Cru Club program is packed with interesting skill-building activities in writing, time management, learning styles, studying and test taking, and active listening. Visiting career speakers will [...]

Providence and Central Falls high school Crusaders participating in our Critical Thinking & Writing Workshop in Media Literacy are wrapping up their final projects this week. They spent all term studying approaches to product marketing and the media, developing unique product concepts, and writing marketing materials. This past Saturday, six of them got a chance [...]

Sharlene Burgos, Aljenis Candelier, and Jason Bourdier, eighth-grade Crusaders at Roger Williams Middle School, got celebrity treatment this month for earning distinction on their NECAP scores. On October 2, they were dropped off at their school in a limo, along with five other students who did well on the test this year! The school principal, [...]

What do you get when you put a lot of kids and a lot of books together in one place? A lot of reading, of course!
On October 3 we kicked off our new Adventures in Literacy program for sixth-grade Crusaders, which is held here at the Crusade office on Saturdays through May 2010. We use [...]

Brian Estrada was awarded the Laura Rendón Community Service Scholarship during the 2009 Youth Leadership Summit for GEAR UP participants hosted in San Francisco last month! The $1,000 scholarship is given on the basis of a written essay and the recipient’s contributions during the national summit. Only two scholarships were awarded. Congratulations, Brian!

Today starts the last week of Ways to A’s, our summer study-skills course for sixth graders who are joining The College Crusade this fall. This afternoon students were learning about note taking and playing memorization games. (Quick, what’s the size of Alaska in square miles?) They also read a chapter aloud together from Freak the [...]

Why are there two bodies in the basement? Do the clues show what happened? Two dozen middle school Crusaders learned the science of forensics at Wheeler Summer Camp this month and tried to solve the mystery! Instructor Bob Schmidt of Wheeler taught them how to observe at a crime scene, how to collect clues, and [...]

Would you buy a product if it had more features than another but cost a little more? Does a cool pop song playing in the background draw your attention to a product faster? High school Crusaders in our new Critical Thinking and Writing Workshop on Media Literacy this summer are learning how to analyze media [...]

It’s July, and our Ways to A’s summer study-skills program for sixth graders is in full swing! Nearly 300 students are signed up to sharpen their study skills and get ready for the challenge of middle school this fall.
As always, our Ways to A’s teaching team features all Crusade Alums! They are Casby Harrison, a [...]

Brian Estrada, a graduating Crusader at Mount Pleasant High School, is traveling to San Francisco next month to attend a special Youth Leadership Summit on education. The event is sponsored by the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (NCCEP) and takes place July 18-22. Brian will represent Rhode Island as one of only 30 [...]