Exciting changes are happening in the Crossroads cafeteria! We have signed up with Simple Creations Catering to provide lunch service. Lunch is $5.00 each day and includes entree, sides, iced tea, and a cookie or fruit. Most weeks, we will have a full salad bar included in lunch for at least two days. Soon we will have a new online...

We expect work to commence tomorrow on our new driveway, at the north end of the parking lot. The Loop Trolley contractors will be doing this work and have scheduled it to be completed before we return from Fall Break on Monday, October 19. Of course, sometimes projects like these take longer than expected. Please continue to be careful around...

Last Saturday, October 2, 2015, Crossroads alumni, students, parents, and friends joined Angela Hunter-Knight and alumnus Henry Powers ’00, did their own GOOD WORK creating a mural on a blighted storefront on S. Jefferson. Look at the amazing transformation!...

Friends, Watching our middle schoolers and ninth graders participate in a design thinking workshop this week has been a lot of fun. We used the template provided by the d.school at Stanford University. The design thinking process begins with empathy, with thinking about the other, and defining a point of view that is other than the designer’s. This strikes me...

Conferences are held twice each year, midway through each semester. They serve as an opportunity to bring students, parents and teachers together to discuss students’ progress this year, show and explain major class assignments, and share goals/action plan for continued success. These conferences supplement the communication that occurs daily between students and their teachers about work and the grades and...

Families will make their conference appointments online through School Appointments. All families will need to create a new account this year. You may set up your account any time with this link http://xrds.schoolappointments.com/admin/. The site closes on Thursday, October 22nd at noon. To register for appointments after that time, you may sign up on the teachers’ doors during conferences Friday, October 23rd if there are spaces remaining. The...

Seventh through ninth grades completed their first design-thinking challenge thanks to the “Crash Course” from the Institute of Design at Stanford University.  Students redesigned   the backpack, something that is integral to every student’s daily experience.  After being asked to come up with ideas outside of the box and to go for “volume and variety” when generating ideas (ideation), several backpacks with...

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Last Saturday, October 2, 2015, Crossroads alumni, students, parents, and friends joined Angela Hunter-Knight and alumnus Henry Powers ’00, did their own GOOD WORK creating a mural on a blighted storefront on S. Jefferson. Look at the amazing transformation!        ...

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. –Jane Goodall Friends, This week I hosted two school leaders separately at Crossroads: Phil Pusateri, the Head of School for LaSalle Middle School, a charter school in the city, and Armando Gilkes, the new Director of Diversity at DeSmet Jesuit High...