Crescite week is a combination of adventure, friendship, and education, where Heights boys choose from a variety of courses that take them as far as Iceland, Ireland, or Napa Valley, or as close as the classroom to learn how to build a guitar, write short story, or interpret a battlefield. 

Crescite is the motto of The Heights School and it is the first word God spoke to man in the book of Genesis, meaning literally "grow or increase."  For the same reason The Heights takes crescite as its motto, the School dubs this week by the same name: like the entire school, Crescite Week is meant to help the boys grow by taking them further and deeper into the world they will soon be asked to steward.

Crescite Week relies upon the physical and intellectual vitality of our faculty, who dream up various courses based upon their interests, hobbies, previous job experience, or studies.  For instance, English teacher Michael Ortiz, who has recently published a juvenile novel with Harper Collins, teaches a writing seminar for boys interested in learning from not only a teacher of English but a practitioner of the art.  Every other year, head of advisory Joe Cardenas, a native Spaniard, leads a group, along with one of our chaplains, on El Camino de Santiago, the great pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint James in northern Spain.  There are sports trips, civil war battlefield interpretation trips, and viticultural trips to northern California, each of them designed to forge friendships between the boys and the boys and the faculty, while providing them with an ever growing vision of the world in which they will soon be men.