New Teacher Profile: Olivia Wang, Modern Languages, Mandarin
November 15, 2017
Originally from China, Olivia Wang came to St. Louis during her undergraduate years through an educational partnership between Guangxi Teacher University and Webster University. She graduated with bachelors degrees in both English and teaching. Olivia stayed in St. Louis to teach Kindergarten at The Chinese School, one of three charter schools within the St. Louis Language Immersion Schools (SLLIS) program, an experience...
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Crossroads Book Fair at Left Bank Books
November 15, 2017
Friday, December 1, 2017 and Saturday, December, 2, 2017 For the last seven years, Crossroads has held our Book Fair at Left Bank Books in the Central West End. We especially appreciate the partnership because Left Bank and it’s leadership are committed to social justice — not to mention it’s an excellent independent bookstore with knowledgeable booksellers. How it works: 1)...
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The Wednesday Notice, 11/8/17
November 8, 2017
Friends, Recently, the director of the COCAbiz program asked me a provocative question: What do schools contribute to the region? I value that we are a private school with a public purpose. The primary way, of course, that we strive to improve the health of our region is through our students. As I see it, though, Crossroads’s commitment to equity and...
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New Teacher Spotlight: Chaley Poth, Mathematics
November 8, 2017
Chaley Poth was a student herself this time last year, completing her degree in mathematics and secondary education at St. Louis University, also her parents’ alma mater. In many ways, Chaley finds herself right where she’d hoped to be after graduation. “I was forced to like math growing up,” Chaley says, “and now I love it.” Why the emphasis on math...
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Focus On: Mastery Learning Projects
November 7, 2017
Since 2003, Crossroads has offered our high school students the opportunity to design and execute a semester-long Mastery Learning Project (MLP), an in-depth inquiry drawn from an existing area of student interest. English department chair Sarah Pierson Wolff directs the program, which she and colleagues see as particularly valuable preparation for the independent thinking required by collegiate and professional work....
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Alumni Spotlight: Erin Falker, From Riot to Rebellion at the Wright Museum
November 7, 2017
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...
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The Wednesday Notice, 10/25/17
October 25, 2017
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...
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Parent Spotlight: Rachel Morgan
October 25, 2017
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,...
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New Teacher Spotlight: Gretchen Roberts, Social Studies
October 24, 2017
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...
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The Wednesday Notice, 10/11/17
October 11, 2017
“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...
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