Surviving The Crossroads

Surviving The Crossroads ("Crossroads") is a comprehensive learning text that teaches students invaluable lessons inside and outside of the classroom. Using both a text and workbook, Crossroads uses case studies as a learning tool to engage students and facilitate the learning process. Crossroads is the only text on the market that inspires and motivates students to exceed at their best. Crossroads teaches life lessons such as: character development, cultural competence, diversity, empathy, tolerance, resiliency, decision-making and a host of other personality and cognitive traits. Some of the Subjects Covered in the Text and Workbook:

-Teenage pregnancy

-Bullying

-Friendships and relationship boundaries

-Cyber bullying¿ Civil rights

-Identity development

-Substance and drugs use

-Violence¿ Death & dying

-Decision making

-Domestic violence

-Philosophy: Plato, Socrates, Aristotle

-College readiness

-Poverty

-Suicide awareness and education

- Contemporary Political Movements: Black Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter

-School to prison pipeline

-Tolerance and acceptance of different points of views, perspectives,

-Fatherless homes

-Character development

-How to conduct a benefit/risk analysis

-The effects of Trauma and stress