A+ services are:

High Quality. Academics Plus is an experienced instructional partner committed to improving each child's academic performance while creating an atmosphere of empowerment, enhancing the joy of learning, and encouraging personal excellence in school, home and community. For the twelve years the academic results of the students and school campuses served have documented significant gains with previously failing students.

Ethical standards are a priority for this company demonstrated with years of service on various community boards by the owners, including service as President of the Rotary Club of McKinney, 2001-2002 by Melinda Crenwelge and Charter President of the McKinney Morning Pride Lions Club, 2002-2003 by Mark Crenwelge. Biannual surveys of students, parents and teacher served yield outstanding reports of high quality customer service.

"As principal of Alta Mesa Learning Center I feel Academics Plus is the cornerstone of our instructional programs. Truly, this is when we 'turned the corner' in achieving success with our students."

Jatis McCollister, Wilmer-Hutchins, Dallas, Texas.

Research-based. This instructional model has its historical roots in the research done in the late 1960's by federal grants under the McComb commission whose charge was to design a way to increase the reading achievement of inner-city, minority students. Top educators from across the nation pooled their talents and available research in this endeavor, resulting in significant academic gains measured on the students served.

Utilizing a background in Bio-Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Reading, Melinda Crenwelge, owner of Academics Plus, developed the instructional program used by Academics Plus which maintains the four primary areas the research originally suggested. Current research was utilized to substantially increase the verbal development and higher order thinking skills of the students. This is supported by Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read by the Center for Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA). It describes the findings of the National Reading Panel Report in five areas of reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text-comprehension.

Instruction in the Academics Plus program focuses upon the remediation of the deficient skills of each student. Instead of emphasizing phonics, whole language or any other of several legitimate teaching methods exclusively, the Academics Plus system utilizes the combination of techniques and methods that best helps each child acquire and master deficient skills. The program is a learner-based rather than a pre-determined, content-based program.

Specifically Designed to Increase Academic Proficiency of Students.
The Academics Plus program prescribes an individualized learning program customized for each child's success on the state's academic achievement standards. It is monitored in a manner to assure that each student receives the precise instructional content delivered in the optimal learning modality at the correct level of difficulty each and every hour of instruction.

A maximum 3:1 student-to-teacher ratio and a close working relationship with classroom teachers assures the transfer of knowledge gained into the large group instructional setting found in the classroom. Extensive communication with parents/caregivers and classroom teachers assures that every student is improving both classroom performance and achievement.

The program causes students to be proficient, thinking readers who are able to perform successfully without unnecessary emphasis on test preparation.