Our 5th Day Theatre course spent nearly three hours with guest educator Erik Kuhn, an actor, theater technician, and stage combat instructor. Kuhn is a Washington University alum who has visited Crossroads as a guest theatre educator for several years now. This visit, he taught our 5th Day Theatre students the basics of stage combat and choreographed fighting. They started …
Bryan Ammons ’24 and Ronak Mohanty ’24 have received the honor of being named National Merit Semi-Finalists! Last October, our high schoolers took the PSAT among 3.5 million other high school students nationwide. The honor of National Merit Semi-Finalist is only bestowed upon the top 16,000 scorers. What an enormous accomplishment! Semi-Finalists have the opportunity to apply to become Finalists …
Homecoming was a BLAST! With a theme of celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip hop (with our own 50th right around the corner), the gym was decked out in musical nostalgia, and the playlist was bumping! It was magical to watch students having such fun and including each other in a myriad of ways, whether it be in a group …
This year’s Spirit Week was so much fun with great themed days, social events throughout the week, and overwhelming student and faculty participation! On Tuesday, nearly the entire Middle School showed up to Middle School Fun Night. They played board games, ate snacks, and played a super fun game in the gym involving running after each other with pool noodles (they loved it). On …
Meet Zoe, class of 2025, and her beloved clarinet. This Monday, Zoe kicked off a year of Musical Mondays playing Alegretto Fantasia by Sextus Miskow. One of our favorite Crossroads traditions is Musical Mondays. At our Monday all-school meetings, we take time for students to perform something that excites them. It’s a wonderful moment of stillness, community, and music. Click …
The walls of Crossroads speak volumes about who we are. The students’ visual arts illustrate how Crossroads is a student-centered, deeply thoughtful, highly skilled academic environment. Great thinking finds expression in myriad forms: elegant argument, beautiful code, powerful writing, and works of art. We foster all forms of intelligence and skill through classroom challenges and real-world, community-based problem-solving. The arts sing at the center of …
We learn differently; we know different things; we need different supports and enrichments. Math Lab is a new class that the Crossroads Math department has designed to increase all students’ math engagement, enjoyment, fluidity, and mastery. Students gather once a week for an hour to do math. It is not a math class: the work is individualized and there are …
This year, we received an incredible grant from the Innovative Technology Education Fund for some high-tech, high-def drones. The capabilities and professional applications of drones make them a perfect focus for a 5th Day course. In Drone Crew, students learn how to fly, maneuver, and film with drones. They also learn creative and technical skills by staging, directing, and editing …
We were so lucky to have a panel of four attorneys visit yesterday for our Courts and Trials 5th Day course. They answered insightful student questions about the Missouri and St. Louis criminal justice systems and their own law careers. Many many thanks to our visiting attorneys – Jim Guest (parent of alumni Andrew ‘19 and Claire ‘21) and Tori …
