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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Posted: July 22nd, 2010 under Admissions, Middle school.
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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 [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2010 under Alumni news, Middle school.
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Super Summer Studiers
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 [...]
Posted: July 27th, 2009 under Admissions, Middle school.
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Crusade Alums Teach Ways to A’s
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 [...]
Posted: July 15th, 2009 under Admissions, Alumni news, Middle school.
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Crusaders Come Back to Teach
A group of successful former Crusaders spent six weeks teaching study skills to 6th and 9th graders in our Ways to A’s program this summer! Pictured here with site coordinator Adam Tarczuk (back row, second from left), they are Marianella Solano, Kathy Toro, Tiffany Hooks, Gladys Vasquez, Diony Garcia, and Lisette Gomes (front row); Harry [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2008 under Admissions, Alumni news.
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Thanks to the Amgen Foundation
On July 17, The Amgen Foundation visited our Ways to A’s study-skills program to present a check for $20,000 to a classroom of Crusaders! During the visit, company representatives Larry Bernard, Thomas Spooner, and Erin Tetreault talked with the group of 9th graders about careers with Amgen and described how their own college experiences prepared [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2008 under Funders and supporters, High school.
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