An Online Reading Platform Fostering Friendships Between Low-Income Kids and Mentors

For the past decade, Nina Zolt has been focused on a particular passion: raising literacy and problem–solving skills of low-income kids by connecting them to online pen pals/mentors. In the late 1990’s, she co-founded a nonprofit, which she later turned into a for-profit, now called Cricket Media.

Innovative eMentoring Program Launches in Detroit to Support Student Growth in Reading and Writing

Press Release – DETROIT – July 31, 2017 – This summer Motor City students between third and fifth grade are connecting one-on-one with adult eMentors from around the country. This program, coordinated by Libraries Without Borders and Cricket Media, and implemented in partnership with the Detroit Public Library and Matrix Human Solutions uses the new […]

The service link: Using volunteerism to boost employee engagement

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is evolving in ways companies may not have anticipated. It’s more than just taking comfort in the knowledge that a company is a good community steward; employers are also finding that employees want to work for businesses that have an impact — and they want to be active participants in those […]

Cricket Media Launches New Platform for Empowering Teachers to Create Independent Learning Paths for Students at ISTE 2017

Company Invites Teachers to Apply to Teach with CricketTogether, a Learning Environment with Powerful Writing Tools, Compelling Content and Teacher-Mediated, 1:1 Relationships with eMentors SAN ANTONIO (PRWEB) JUNE 26, 2017  Today at ISTE 2017 Cricket Media launched CricketTogether™, a unique, innovative eMentoring platform that helps teachers create independent learners by combining powerful writing tools, compelling […]

Cricket Media Launches New Platform for Empowering Teachers to Create Independent Learning Paths for Students at ISTE 2017

Company Invites Teachers to Apply to Teach With CricketTogether, a Learning Environment With Powerful Writing Tools, Compelling Content and Teacher-Mediated, 1:1 Relationships With eMentors SAN ANTONIO (PRWEB) JUNE 26, 2017  Today at ISTE 2017 Cricket Media launched CricketTogether™, a unique, innovative eMentoring platform that helps teachers create independent learners by combining powerful writing tools, compelling […]

Welcome to our new Cricket Media blog!

Something new is coming to Cricket Country. There’s so much that we’d like to share with families that we can’t fit into the pages of our magazines or into the character limits of a Tweet. Get ready for plenty of behind-the-scenes stories, awesome facts, ideas for family fun activities, anecdotes, and insights in to some […]

Parallel Lives: Rallying for Causes—Centuries Apart

My love for the Classics, especially Latin began in ninth grade, with my first Latin class. I just loved everything about the language—from the declensions to the subjunctive to the four purpose clauses. So, as I thought about the themes for 2017-2018, I looked through the ancient Greek and Roman topics I had covered in […]