Dear Crossroads College Preparatory School Community: What counts as leadership or learning? What counts as diversity or justice? These questions have been on my mind since Monday when I left a Schools That Can meeting at UMSL. Together, public, charter, and independent school leaders and university leaders spent two hours in activities and conversation around this question: How can we...

Christopher Limber, the director of the Crossroads fall play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, wrote the following program notes for the play. It has been my distinct pleasure over the past 5 weeks to work with an immensely talented group of students on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We have explored our telling of the play, investigating its...

Congratulations to our student/athletes who were recognized as All-Conference performers. Seniors Andrew Kowalkowski and Caleb Hill were named 1st Team All-SCAA for soccer along with juniors Peter Hamilton and Ivan Boyers. Senior DJ Corbett and junior Tyler Doll were named to the 2nd Team. In volleyball, sophomore Kieran Uhlmansiek was named 1st Team All-SCAA while junior Elizabeth Birch was named...

The next Saturday tournament is November 15th! We will be playing in the Gateway Fall Open at Lindbergh High School. Depart from Crossroads: 7:15 AM (sharp) Tournament ends: 5:30 pm, with awards following. Return to school by 7 pm Cost of tournament: $12, cash or check payable to “Gateway Chess League” United States Chess Federation membership is required for this...

Thirty-six upper school students participated in the Excellence in Mathematics contest sponsored by the Mathematics Educators of St. Louis and the math department at St. Louis Community College Forest Park. More than 800 students from the greater St. Louis area participated. The Crossroads students performed very well again this year. There were awards for grade team and individuals. The team...

  This Saturday, November 1, 2014, 38 Crossroads College Prep upper school students will participate in the annual Excellence in Mathematics contest sponsored by the Mathematics Educators of Greater St. Louis and Forest Park Community College. Last year the 9th grade finished second and the 11th grade finished fourth in the small-schools division. Joe, Gerry, Kim, and Mark are looking...

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail Dear Crossroads College Preparatory School Community: The city is our campus. I think about this often and what it means to live and learn and work in...

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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. – Neil Gaiman Last night, seven Crossroads students, Maggie, Mark, and I participated in the ISSL Secondary Schools Night at Villa Duchesne. This event is part of our admission program. Maggie prepares the students and designs the presentation so that...

Girls’ JV Volleyball 10/15 Crossroads 2 Bayless 1 Girls’ Varsity Volleyball 10/15 Bayless 2 Crossroads 0 10/20 Crossroads 2 St. Paul 0 (District Quarterfinal) 10/21 Kingston 2 Crossroads 0 (District Semifinal) Boys’ JV Soccer 10/15 Bayless 2 Crossroads 0...