Last month, art and culture magazine Hyperallergic featured Erin Falker’s (2006) work as Assistant Curator at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. There, Falker helped develop the special exhibition Say it Loud: Art, History, and Rebellion, “a two-part exhibition that commemorates the 1960s rebellions, observes the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, and compares...

Friends, Last Sunday, Crossroads hosted our annual Open House, an essential and exciting event in our admissions program. Thank you to Director of Admission Corinne Groark, as well as all of the faculty, staff, board members, students, and parent volunteers who helped make the day both welcoming and meaningful. I am proud that over 100 families RSVPed for the event...

Next month, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) will hold its annual conference in St. Louis. After the NAACP issued a travel advisory for the state last summer, NCTE membership expressed a desire to support its members of color who will be visiting Missouri. In response, Rachel Morgan — an elementary school teacher and mother of Crossroads 7th-grader,...

  Not only is this Gretchen Roberts new to Crossroads, this is also her first fall in St. Louis. She’s lived many places before; as a child, she split her time between Colorado with her mother and Germany — where she attended a bilingual school for 4th, 5th, and 9th grades — with her father. She spent her first two...

“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest [people].” —Roald Dahl Friends, Today is the eighth year that students have designed, constructed, enjoyed, and torn down a Crossroads-sized carnival on campus. “Double Rainbow” is a fun, student-driven tradition — one of the ways we connect, play, and celebrate as a community. Double Rainbow helps us connect by creating...

  This week, journalist Stephanie Hanes presented to biology and AP Environmental Science students about her work reporting from Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, the subject of her newly released book, White Man’s Game: Saving Animals, Rebuilding Eden, and Other Myths of Conservation in Africa. In the book “[Hanes] traces the tangled history of Western missionaries, explorers, and do-gooders in...

  Spanish teacher Matt Barrett is a St. Louis native and Crossroads alum. He remembers visiting the school as a 6th grader because he had neighbors who attended Crossroads. He says he left that day with the impression it was a a school where “everybody knew each other, and it felt like everybody belonged.” “I think the experience for the...

Friends, In our most recent Next Week at Crossroads communication to parents, Kim wrote that the “rigor and vigor doesn’t end on Friday.” She was referring to all that was going on last Saturday at Crossroads, things like student ambassador training, FIRST Robotics, open gym for a few basketball players, professional development for a few teachers, and our Parents of Children...

  Middle school science teacher Sarah Tolch was born in North Carolina, but doesn’t have an easy answer to where she’s from. As a child, she moved around, following her father’s work as a minister. Her parents now live in New Mexico, but if she has to pick, she’ll say she’s from Texas, which is where she spent the longest...

  This summer, Elaina Grimm (’17) attended the Young Women’s Political Leadership Program in Washington, DC, organized by Running Start, a non-partisan group that supports young women in politics. The annual, weeklong experience introduces high school students to the ins and outs of political leadership through workshops covering public speaking, media, networking, fundraising, and advocacy. Participants meet with women candidates and...