This Week in Middle School

December 17, 2014
Middle School
While the Upper School students sit for exams this week, the Middle School takes advantage of the more flexible schedule, combining time in the classroom with culminating projects and new learning experiences....
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Good Work Partnership: BWORKS

December 17, 2014
Community Engagement
Good Work
BWORKS is one of our long-term Good Work partners.  Our students work in Soulard at BWORKS’ beautiful home site.  We move, sort, and disassemble donated bikes, as well as rebuild bikes to...
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Minecraft and Ethics

December 17, 2014
Activities
Students
Our Minecraft activity sat down with Mark to discuss ethics and Minecraft and some clear principles emerged.  Students found much agreement on two principles: the golden rule and know your world. Students...
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Hour of Code Takeaways

December 16, 2014
Students
“Like eating their vegetables, teaching kids to enjoy tech at an early age could be key to their future” money.cnn.com   Thanks to all who participated in the Hour of Code at...
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English Contests: Writing Essays, Writing Poetry, and Poetry Out Loud

December 16, 2014
Students
Writing: There are two contests coming up which are open to high school students, and we encourage all of our writers to compete. The first is the Robert J Stuckey Essay Contest...
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Amazon Smile

December 10, 2014
Amazon will donate to Crossroads College Prep when you shop @AmazonSmile. Click here to bookmark the Amazon Smile page....
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Library Book Fair Continues on the Web!

December 10, 2014
Thank you to everyone who donated books to the Crossroads library this weekend and shopped at Left Bank Books in support of the library. The book fair continues through Sunday on the...
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Chess News for December 10th

December 10, 2014
Chess
Students
Crossroads Takes Home Two Trophies at Sperreng The ninth grade and under team of Emanuel Gerbi, Joey Blank, Parker Lake, and Mystik Stargod won its division at the Gateway Board tournament, held December...
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Reaching Across

December 10, 2014
Head of School
Friends, This week’s cover for The New Yorker has been on my mind since I saw the image circulated on Facebook and Twitter a couple of weeks ago. It reminds me of...
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Good Work Partner: KidSmart

December 10, 2014
Community Engagement
Good Work
Students
The mission of KidSmart is to ensure that children and their classrooms in the Greater Metropolitan Saint Louis Area have the basic tools for learning by transferring, at no cost, the community’s...
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