Crusaders at Roger Williams Middle School have been thinking and writing about bullying recently. They watched a documentary film called Bullied, which chronicles one student’s ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies and offers an inspiring message of hope to those fighting harassment today. After the film, Crusade Advisor Kristina Moyet invited several Crusaders to [...]

Led by veteran high school English teacher Demian Yattaw, dozens of Crusaders are taking on the writing challenge in our Media Literacy Writing Program this month. In two-week sessions, they meet in the Learning Center at our headquarters in Providence every morning to analyze, discuss, and write about the influence of media in our lives. [...]

There was learning going on in every direction at Saturday Cru Club this past weekend. As usual, Crusaders filled up five whole classrooms at Johnson & Wales University’s Harborside Campus. Sixth graders in our Math Matters class were working on understanding decimal places, guided by teacher Paula McKenna. Down the hall, another class of middle [...]

Dozens of middle school and high school Crusaders are investing their time and energy in Saturday morning academics this fall. Our Saturday Academy program, held at Bishop McVinney School in Providence, regularly welcomes over 80 high school students every weekend. Attendance by middle school students is even higher. What gets Crusaders out of bed and [...]

This summer, a group of high school Crusaders are working together to analyze media imagery with the help of Victor Omoayo, a Crusade alum who is teaching in our Media Literacy program. Victor is a graduate of Mount Pleasant High School in Providence. He went on to earn a B.A. in Journalism from the University [...]

High school Crusaders attending our summer course in Media Literacy are showing their creative sides lately. The two-week course, taught by PAIS English teacher Demian Yattaw, gets students involved in analyzing how messages are delivered to audiences via print, broadcast, and electronic media. As a capstone project, the students work together to generate ideas for [...]

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 [...]

A great article for parents written by College Crusade high school manager Maria Carvalho was recently published by the Center for Student Opportunity! The article, called “Be a Safety Net: How to Support Your Child During the College Application Process,” is currently featured on the CSO’s website in their “Ask the Experts” column. The article [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]