Friends, I often think about how things begin and about how the clarity of a first day can set the direction and tone for how we continue and where we end up. Today, on the first day of school for students, we began in the gym as an entire student, faculty, and staff community. We heard from Kim, our school...

Friends, The Crossroads campus has been a busy place this week. New colleagues arrived on Monday and spent the day with School Director, Kim Townsend, and yesterday, I welcomed the entire faculty and staff to the 2015-2016 school year! I never underestimate the power of beginnings, and I believe that we had a great first day together. We began with...

We believe all Crossroads parents are Ambassadors! The Parent Ambassador Committee makes significant contributions to our school’s events and projects throughout the year. We could not function at the level we do without parent volunteers. Liz Lewis is this year’s Parent Ambassador Chair. Liz and her husband Jim will have two children at Crossroads this year: Andrew is a freshman,...

Lunch Service: We are in the process of securing a lunch program for our students, so each day, we will have lunch service from a local restaurant, sandwich shop, or pizza parlor. Lunch will be $5.00 per day including food and drink, payable by cash or check at the time of purchase. If you would like to pre-order for the...

As previously noted, the Loop Trolley project is moving forward, and at the moment it’s making a bit of a mess in front of our building! This work will impact your travel time to and from school, and it will require extra care getting in and out of our driveways. Here’s what you need to know for the start of school: 1....

I am sure that each of you would want to go beyond the superficial social analyst who looks merely at effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. –Martin Luther King, Jr. to eight White religious leaders in “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Friends, I am writing this letter because tomorrow is the anniversary of the murder of Mike Brown in...

Friends, For the past three days, Cliff, Gina, and I have been participating in an Anti-Bias/Anti-Racist workshop along with friends and colleagues at City Garden Montessori School, the US Bank CDC, and two leaders from the United Methodist Church. This workshop was facilitated by CrossRoads Antiracism Organizing and Training. As always, I am impressed by the courage and vulnerability of...

The Loop Trolley project is well underway, and it’s been exciting to watch the progress in The Loop and on DeBaliviere. The future looks bright as plans include a Crossroads trolley stop right in front of our school building. We’ve also arranged to have our parking lot entrance moved and widened to make pick-up and drop-off more convenient. In the...

Dear Parents and Students, The school year is nearly here, and we are all very excited for a fantastic year of Crossroads College Prep Athletics.The bar has been set high and we like it that way. It is time for new faces to step into prominent roles. We can’t wait to see how the pieces of the puzzle fit together.This...

“If we abandon equality, we lose the single bond that makes us a community, that makes us a people with the capacity to be free collectively and individually in the first place.” –Danielle Allen Director, Safra Center for Ethics Harvard University Friends, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence, by Danielle Allen, African American classicist and political theorist,...