About us

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 (age 17) describes our adventures traveling to homeschool conventions over the past 15 years (40 half pages, $1.99).
                     

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 14 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.  (Read the resume of Renee Ellison.)

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
~ Cross-Over ~ look for the sign for Homeschool How-To's

Think about attending your region’s home educators' conference next year.  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.

If you see us at a convention this coming year you'll see we have a new system for honoring the Lord's Sabbath while we are at conventions. We'll be doing all the selling and transmission of our materials only on the Thursday and Friday, and will be there for fellowshipping and counselling and homeschooling pep-talking on the Saturday. Most of our materials (except for the typing and piano courses) are (or soon will be) 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, by His grace (contact us for more info):

Page last modified:  Sept .4, 2008