The Learning-2-Learn Courses

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CROSSROADS Personal Academic Training Program is a comprehensive solution to helping students reach and maximize their academic potential and achieve a life-long love of learning. Each course segment is educator-designed; using a brain based learning approach targeted to produce academic results.

Crossroads educational program helps students develop a foundation for literacy and strengthens reading, language arts, math, social studies, and science skills and knowledge across content areas.

Crossroads assess student performance, diagnose their strengths, and prescribe specific instruction targeting areas of non-mastery. This allows the mentors and parents to spend more time working one-on-one with students to achieve results.

Courses offer a design to enhance academic performance, as well as provide a foundation for state assessments and college entrance exams. Integrated assessment and reporting tools offer students immediate feedback and guidance and allow mentors and parents to assess and monitor student progress in real time.

Crossroads Learning-2-Learn Courses are engineered from the ground up to provide the most advanced assessment, curriculum, data management, and state standards correlation possible.

The Learning-2-Learn solution allows students and their parents to track their own progress and measure how well they are doing by comparing them with their state and NCLB standards.

Crossroads Learning-2-Learn program is content aligned and correlated to the most current assessment and curriculum standards available for each state so parents and educators know exactly where students are in relation to their state and our national standards.

Predesigned tests are based on National Assessment of Educational Progress and state assessments. Crossroads Learning-2-Learn curriculum is correlated to the curriculum standards of 49 states and the District of Columbia. As states update or change their standards the assessments and the testing standards and corresponding activities are also updated. Students receive the most current focused instruction in targeted skill areas that include reading comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, mathematics, and writing. Self-paced, project-based activities promote exploration, individual and cooperative learning, problem solving, reflection, and real-world connections. A variety of learning and instructional strategies that differentiate instruction support multiple instructional models, multiple intelligences, and levels of student achievement.

Computer-based curriculum and assessment allow students to move forward at their own pace, and provide opportunities for students who need remediation or enrichment to work within one of the Crossroads Centers as well as at home.

Crossroads Learning-2-Learn assessments ensure educators/parents/students know how each student is achieving.

Instructional activities are engaging, interactive, and stimulating, capturing the attention of today's technology-literate students and motivating them to learn.
All Crossroads Learning-2-Learn Course solutions are backed by research, expertise, and experience, and have been proven to increase academic achievement in a variety of settings and across all content areas.

All courses are developed based on current research in both theory and application and with the expertise of nationally recognized experts in the respective national organizations, such as:

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics National Council of Teachers of English National Science Foundation National Council for the Social Studies National Assessment of Educational Progress National Association for the Education of Young Children National Reading Panel International Reading Association Association for Language Learning Technology American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages International Society for Technology in Education National Staff Development Council

Crossroads Learning-2-Learn delivers content in a variety of formats that are also compatible with assistive technology to accommodate different abilities and learning styles.

Activities are engaging to keep students focused and on task. Activities are clearly organized and formatted consistently within each level. Concepts are repeated, reviewed, and summarized for clarity. Language arts texts can be read online or printed in PDF format for offline use. Auditory support of content is provided in PreK-6 Reading/Language Arts and Math. Students can work at their own pace in the assessment tests and in the learning activities. The diagnostic-prescriptive capabilities permit students to work on a personalized learning path. Many activities teach concepts through songs, graphics, videos Visual enhancements include font, font size, spacing and color for contrast, Bullets and numbering are used when teaching concepts Graphic organizers are used to create rubrics Graphics and pictures are added to practice sheets and tests Activities use the different intelligences Activities use interactive games, puzzles and programs that have built in feedback and repetition capabilities Activities have tasks that are broken up into manageable units which help improve student self-esteem Writer allows writers to make frequent revisions without tedious recopying Writer includes outlining and semantic webbing (mapping ideas) in order to easily rearrange Multimedia in activities is used to trigger the sympathetic imagination and improve emotional intelligence