Faith Sandler, Executive Director of the Scholarship Foundation and Crossroads parent of Claire Holohan, Class of 2011, and Pete Holohan, Class of 2013, helped advise on the creation of our Good Work program.  The ScholarShop has been a steady and active member of our Good Work team ever since.  Rita Dillard begins each new year with our volunteers running a...

  EarthDance Farm grows food, farmers and community, one small farm at a time, through hands-on education and delicious experiences.  Our Good Work group does farm work, such as planting, weeding, harvesting, and composting.  The spirit at EarthDance has always been very positive!  Thank you to Ann Owens, Ethan Lutjens grandmother, for steering us towards EarthDance. EarthDance is a non-profit...

BWORKS is one of our long-term Good Work partners.  Our students work in Soulard at BWORKS’ beautiful home site.  We move, sort, and disassemble donated bikes, as well as rebuild bikes to be given to local youth.  If you have an old bike looking for a new home, please consider donating to BWORKS. From the BWORKS website: Our volunteer-run programs...

The mission of KidSmart is to ensure that children and their classrooms in the Greater Metropolitan Saint Louis Area have the basic tools for learning by transferring, at no cost, the community’s surplus supplies and merchandise into the hands of teachers for school children in need.* On Good Work days, our students prepare the KidSmart warehouse store for customers. When...

Thank you to the Crossroads community for your contributions of nonperishables to Student Council’s annual Canned Food Drive. For about ten years Crossroads’ contributions have been donated to the families of the Marquette Center in the Dutchtown South neighborhood. Many families will have a happier Thanksgiving and a less stressful December because of your generosity. In total, the Crossroads community...

The World Pediatric Project is a nonprofit organization with a mission to heal critically ill children and build healthcare capacity in the world. Kate Corbett, parent of Riley (Class of 2013), DJ (Class of 2015) and Meg (Class of 2020) founded the St. Louis office in 2004 with a passion to connect children with life-changing surgical care they cannot obtain...

By good work, we are referring to the book of the same title that defines good work as “work of expert quality that benefits the broader society” (Gardner, Csikszentmihalyi, and Damon); we are referring to our service programs and to challenging our students to be smart and good. We will learn from our service organization partners – our Good Work...

Crossroads College Prep Student Council is sponsoring our annual canned food drive to help hungry people in St. Louis as Thanksgiving approaches. The canned food drive ends Friday, November 14th. Participation in past years has been outstanding – let’s make that happen again! This is a competition among classes. Points are added up and divided by the number of students...

The first day of our Good Work program is Thursday, Oct. 23. All Upper School students will be away from school from 11:30 to 3:15 working with our Good Work Partners. Each year, Crossroads students contribute over 3,000 hours of service to the community through our various Good Work programs, including our week-long, Good Work trips. Our 2014-2015 Good Work...

Volunteers Needed (a lot of them)! Help us beautify our Crossroads campus for Open House. Please bring power washers, shovels, rakes, large garden forks, or rock rakes if you have them. We hope to be done in a few hours, but stop by even if you just have a bit of time. Volunteer using VolunteerSpot in three easy steps: 1)...