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These materials are a product of Cross-Over, which is a family business of Todd and Renee Ellison, since 1989.

The Inside Scoop, written by our daughter Melanie (now a young adult) describes some heartwarming, faith-building adventures traveling to homeschool conventions over the past decade (40 half-size pages, $1.99). This fun look behind the scenes shows you what vendors go through to bring you their wares.
                      

Our statement of trust Why the name, Cross-Over Conferences schedule Customer comments

 

Why the name, Cross-Over?

  • Our products help you to cross over from inability to ability, from a slow way to accomplish something to a fast way, from inefficiency to efficiency, from sluggish left brain techniques to hyper-drive right-brain freeways--and from inferior products to superior ones for your health and exercise.
  •  We are impelled and enabled by the power of what Messiah accomplished by His death and resurrection.
  • The Hebrew name Hebrew derives from a root indicating "one who has `crossed a boundary.'"

About the author and inventor, Renee Ellison

 

Mrs. Ellison has more than 30 years of experience in the field of education--in Christian, private, secular, and home school settings.  She has been home educating for nearly 20 years.  Renee has taught nearly all grade levels, and was an elementary principal, head of a high school English department, was awarded Teacher of the Year, developed and ran gifted and talented programs, and has conducted numerous teacher training workshops. (Click here for Renee's resume.)

Renee invented a system for learning how to touch-type that has been sold around the world, as has her similar system for learning how to play the piano.  As a Bible-believing home-schooling mom, she delights in using her professional academic background to help others teach and train more effectively at home.  Renee and her husband are the parents of one child (more in heaven), and work together to create homeschool how-to’s and make them available to you.

Conventions and workshops schedule for Renee Ellison ~ Homeschool How-To's

Think about attending your region’s home educators' conference.  If you don’t break down and cry from stimulation overload from the first moment you enter the exhibit hall, it can be a most fun time.  You and some other moms might want to go together.  The men could perhaps man the children!  Or, ask the grandparents to watch your children, and both you and your husband make a date of attending.  You’ll have to hang on to your pocketbook because it is fairly common for first timers to unload $500 to $1000 on materials in those few days.  Then in subsequent years they get wise, do the kinds of things Renee has written about in “The Right Stuff,” and can teach for $25.00 a year, or less!  But the speakers are fabulous, and the networking with other moms… an earlier heaven.  Tears, confessions, inspirations, Solomon-like insights are all mangled up in your emotions when you leave as you glory anew in your motherhood.
~ Come see us at a convention! ~ 
This is the current draft of this year's schedule.  Please contact us for more information, and with your suggestions and recommendations for participating in future home educators' conferences.  Our policy is to only participate at conventions where Renee is invited as a speaker.

Our products are available for purchase at our convention booth on FRIDAY, so plan to shop on Friday. To honor the Lord's Sabbath while we are at conventions, we do all the selling and transmission of our materials only on the Thursday and Friday, and are there for fellowshipping and counselling and homeschooling pep-talking on the Saturday. Most of our materials (except for the typing and piano courses) are available electronically over our website, but if you want to leave the convention with products from our booth, please visit it before sundown on Friday!

We look forward to seeing many of you at a conference in 2009, by His grace (contact us for more info):

Arlington, Texas

 Florida

 Houston  Iowa

Nebraska and Upper Plains

 New Mexico

2009 dates
City
Sponsoring organization
Renee's workshops/ dates/ times
Feb. 5
 Marquette, Nebraska

Families of Christ United through Schoolers (FOCUS)

 12 Optimum Ways to Trigger the Brain
Feb. 16
 Fargo,
North Dakota		 Resources and Encouragement for Area Christian Homeschoolers (REACH, Fargo-Moorhead Area) meeting at the Family Life Center at the Bethel Evangelical Free Church 12 Optimum Ways to Trigger the Brain
Feb. 17
 Grand Forks,
North Dakota		 Greater Grand Forks Homeschool Association (GGFHSA) meeting at Grace Baptist Church Teaching the Resistant Student
Feb. 19
 Steinbach, Manitoba Homeschool support group

Just Starting to Homeschool?
April 16-18
 Albuquerque, NM Christian Association of Parent Educators - New Mexico (CAPE-N.M.)
April 27-May 1 Decorah, IA Homeschool counseling and teaching demonstrations  
May 8-9
 Arlington, TX Hearth and Home Ministries
(See us at booth #50 -- near Bluebird Tapes and Entrance #4)		 At 9:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, in Room M-1:
How to TRAIN Your Children, Not Just DISCIPLINE Them
May 21-23 Orlando, FL Florida Parent Educators Association (FPEA)
 (See us at booth #901 -- near the entrance to the exhibit hall -- two aisles to the right of the FPEA conference headquarters booths)
June 5-6
 Houston, TX Gulf Coast Home Education Conference (SETHSA) Our attendance at this conference is tentative at this time.
The following conference workshops and more are also available as  teacher training workshops for schools:
Presented by the author, Renee Ellison.
All these and scores more are also available as audio books!

Eight workshops on how to teach and how to raise godly children:

Seven workshops on home management:

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Page last modified:  April 19, 2009