After the goats did a truly tremendous job sustainably trimming our rain garden, the Crossroads Family Organization (CFO) got to work planting over 200 perennials, whose blooms we’ll see this spring! Dana Salony, Director of Development, led the project through inclement weather and helped out planting. Thank you, Dana and the CFO, for all you do to make our campus...

  This year, Crossroads received an incredible Innovator grant from the Innovative Technology Education Fund (ITEF) for some high-tech, high-def drones. Our groundbreaking 5th Day curriculum was the perfect draw for ITEF to choose us as an Innovator grant recipient. Their vision statement reads, “Innovative Technology Education Fund believes that introducing children to the spectrum of available technology creates opportunities for...

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...

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...

Our STL Houses 5th Day course, led by Bryan Pannill, went on a bus tour of the Delmar Divide led by the Missouri History Museum. The week prior, guest Doug Finer, Chief Counsel at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Washington University in St. Louis School of Law graduate, helped students complete a timeline of housing policies...

It’s important that all our students have opportunities to foster their relationships in new environments. While our middle schoolers were out rafting on the river, our Upper School advisories had fun too! The first Friday of school, each grade visited a different location for their Advisory Retreat. They spent the day at the Foundry, the St. Louis Zoo, the City...

An important part of our Back to School schedule are Middle School Boundless Days. Boundless Days are the first three days of school, during which we show our middle schoolers what it means to be Crossroadian. Sometimes, we must leave campus to form closer bonds and relationships. We find that there is immense potential in the disequilibrium a new, unfamiliar...

Construction began last week on the replacement Radio Tower. Radio towers are fascinating structures that have played a crucial role in shaping the way we communicate and stay connected over long distances. They are not only engineering marvels but also symbols of the human desire to reach out and communicate with others across great distances. We’re so excited about this...

Crossroads welcomed more than 150 people, ages 10-19, from nine states for a fencing tournament in May! This tournament was the final event for fencers to qualify for nationals, and the heat was on! Thanks so much to the Nike Community Impact Fund, which provided for equipment and program development, enabling us to partner with The Fencers Academy as an...