Whether one is new to the field, or has an established career in tutoring, academic coaching, training or student support center management, our unique training catalog offers a comprehensive approach to professional development. Each learner is paired with a master trainer who will mentor them through the course.
The Crossroads of Learning content, assignments and self-paced study sessions utilize the same brain-based learning techniques found in effective tutoring. In other words, our courses:
Learners may begin working minutes after on-line registration. All course materials and a printed certificate of completion are included in the tuition.
A skilled tutor can help a student become a better learner leading to higher GPA and retention. Tutoring Foundations is a series of high-quality and individually mentored tutor training courses. The curriculum was developed in 2007 in collaboration the National Tutoring Association. These university approved, self-paced and research based tutor training courses are available in three modules (Basic, Intermediate and Advanced) and are flexible enough to accommodate new peer tutors as well as experienced tutoring professionals and administrators.
A skilled academic coach can help students identify and verbalize answers to not only academic questions, but many others influencing their life-long learning journey. Our courses train tutors, counselors and other staff in effective techniques for guidance and goal-setting, critical thinking, cultural awareness and the emotional intelligence required to support the development of students from all levels and backgrounds. In addition, it emphasizes the relationship aspects of coaching.
Readings and reflective assignments explore a variety of theories and techniques, stressing how coaches can utilize an individualized approach to each student. Participants learn to evaluate students based on their own unique needs, challenges, perceptions, and goals and then facilitate a plan to fit that student. The course is individually mentored and uses real-world issues to reinforce material.
For those wishing to train their tutors directly this program provides the
professional development enabling trainers to conduct approved Tutoring
Foundations classroom or on-line tutor training. This program builds on our university approved Tutoring Foundations curriculum with a capstone course covering classroom pedagogy and processes, adult learning principles, classroom management, and more. Successful completion of the program will provide any learning, writing or academic center with in-house staff who can conduct face-to-face trainings on-site using our Tutoring Foundations classroom workbooks and curriculum.
Schools, community groups, non-profits and for-profit providers can quickly and confidently integrate a workbook-based curriculum into their classroom training programs.
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The Learning Support Academy is an online, private, secure, branded learning community of practice. You'll be able to provide:
Organizations, such as schools and colleges as well as community and commercial tutoring and coaching centers will:
Bob Lasiewicz has been supporting the learning and systems needs of individuals and companies for over 40 years. In 1982, he founded Media InfoSystems, Inc. to provide business, training and information technology services to the entertainment industry. A year later, he and his wife Nalini launched ShowBiz Expo, a film and video trade show and conference that grew into the world's premier entertainment production industry event. The couple sold the business after ten years to explore other career challenges.
Crossroads of Learning represents an intersection of the technological, social and lifelong learning community goals that have characterized Bob's entire career. Under his direction, Crossroads of Learning has developed a university-approved tutor training curriculum for both on-line and in-person formats as well as a trainer development program.
Bob earned his Bachelor of Science degree at the School of Communications at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and a Master of Arts degree in Media & Communications Psychology from Touro University Worldwide in Los Alamitos, CA.
Born in Holland and raised in Hollywood, Nalini Lasiewicz has worked for years with small businesses and non-profit organizations in marketing, administration and public relations projects. Alongside her husband, Bob Lasiewicz, Nalini launched and produced the ShowBiz Expo, a tradeshow for the film and television industry. The event was held annually in Los Angeles and New York and Nalini was responsible for oversight of the Finance and Accounting staff as well as managing the Conference and the Marketing Departments for the ten years prior to its sale.
Nalini also pursues philanthropic goals under The Lasiewicz Foundation, a nonprofit corporation launched in 1993, dedicated to education and social action for human development. The Lasiewicz Foundation is a non-profit project that provides PR, marketing and organizational assistance to human rights, peace and independent media groups. and most recently has launched Crossroads of Music, a non-profit project that advocates and promotes early chiildhood music and movement
Robert Gelman contributes to the Crossroads of Learning team with over 40 years experience producing, managing, and marketing tradeshows and conferences (primarily in the technology space), as well as theatrical and arts-oriented events. His initial project with Bob and Nalini Lasiewicz was as marketing manager for the ShowBiz Expo project.
He is also is recognized as an Internet pioneer, an early member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, online rights activist, and developer of notable communities on the web and within the AOL environment. He is the author of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s guide to online safety, freedom, and privacy (Harper Collins), and has also served as a contributing editor to InterActivity, Keyboard, and other technology publications.
His recent work includes hands-on development projects for People of Note (music education advocates), The Redwood City Education Foundation (support of enahanced programs in the schools), and the San Mateo Dance Association (arts education), where he is a former member of the Board of Directors.
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