by Catherine Dwyer | WSP Class Teacher Years ago when I first taught elementary school, before I met Waldorf education, every year I would have a new group of students and I would spend the first few months getting to know them as they got to know me. As the months...
by Kevin Krasnow | Director of College Counseling “It’s not where you go, it’s what you do there.” This is the advice of Dr. Denise Pope, Senior Lecturer at Stanford University and co-founder of Challenge Success, a non-profit affiliated with the Stanford University...
by Melanie Ingler | Communications Coordinator A new study published in the JAMA Pediatrics suggests yet one more reason to manage tech at home. “Tempting as it may be to hand them a smartphone or turn on the TV as a default response, soothing with digital devices may...
by Ashley Brickeen | Admissions Director, Nursery-Grade 8 Imagine your child learning a coding language that could be read, used and accurately executed hundreds of years into the future. That is knitting. Hundreds of years before computer coding, fiber artists had...
by Jennifer Britton | Business Office Assistant & Alumni Parent As a twenty-something-year alumni parent, volunteer, and current staff member, there are still moments when being in this community fascinates me or brings me unexpected joy. Two most recent ones come...
by Ami Evergreen | Pedagogical Administrator, Nursery-Grade 8 For the bountiful gifts the earth bestows upon us, for the gold hues that adorn the land, for the richness of each sunrise and each day’s glory in our valley–our attention to these details can be the...
by by Phil Dwyer | Earth Arts Teacher Many crows gather early every morning under a large oak where I live. They take advantage of the cars squishing the acorns that fall in the residential parking lot and driveway. A number of gray and black squirrels busily scurry...
by Martha Groves Perry | WSP Alumni Parent, Former Board President, and Bay Area Musician Like many in our community, I could not process Rich Armstrong’s recent passing. After receiving the phone call that morning, I walked around all day feeling like I had been...
by Ami Evergreen | Pedagogical Administrator, Nursery-Grade 8 Each little child will bring the light, ‘til all the world is warm and bright. In many countries the Festivals of Light begin when our days grow short and nights grow long. In North America we first...
by Ashley Brickeen | Admissions Director, Early Childhood - Grade 8 and by Catherine Dwyer | Class Teacher Form drawing is a unique part of Waldorf Education. At Waldorf schools, students mainly practice form drawing from First grade through Fifth grade. As with most...
by Catherine Dwyer | WSP Class Teacher Years ago when I first taught elementary school, before I met Waldorf education, every year I would have a new group of students and I would spend the first few months getting to know them as they got to know me. As the months...
by Kevin Krasnow | Director of College Counseling “It’s not where you go, it’s what you do there.” This is the advice of Dr. Denise Pope, Senior Lecturer at Stanford University and co-founder of Challenge Success, a non-profit affiliated with the Stanford University...
by Melanie Ingler | Communications Coordinator A new study published in the JAMA Pediatrics suggests yet one more reason to manage tech at home. “Tempting as it may be to hand them a smartphone or turn on the TV as a default response, soothing with digital devices may...
by Ashley Brickeen | Admissions Director, Nursery-Grade 8 Imagine your child learning a coding language that could be read, used and accurately executed hundreds of years into the future. That is knitting. Hundreds of years before computer coding, fiber artists had...
by Jennifer Britton | Business Office Assistant & Alumni Parent As a twenty-something-year alumni parent, volunteer, and current staff member, there are still moments when being in this community fascinates me or brings me unexpected joy. Two most recent ones come...
by Ami Evergreen | Pedagogical Administrator, Nursery-Grade 8 For the bountiful gifts the earth bestows upon us, for the gold hues that adorn the land, for the richness of each sunrise and each day’s glory in our valley–our attention to these details can be the...
by by Phil Dwyer | Earth Arts Teacher Many crows gather early every morning under a large oak where I live. They take advantage of the cars squishing the acorns that fall in the residential parking lot and driveway. A number of gray and black squirrels busily scurry...
by Martha Groves Perry | WSP Alumni Parent, Former Board President, and Bay Area Musician Like many in our community, I could not process Rich Armstrong’s recent passing. After receiving the phone call that morning, I walked around all day feeling like I had been...
by Ami Evergreen | Pedagogical Administrator, Nursery-Grade 8 Each little child will bring the light, ‘til all the world is warm and bright. In many countries the Festivals of Light begin when our days grow short and nights grow long. In North America we first...
by Ashley Brickeen | Admissions Director, Early Childhood - Grade 8 and by Catherine Dwyer | Class Teacher Form drawing is a unique part of Waldorf Education. At Waldorf schools, students mainly practice form drawing from First grade through Fifth grade. As with most...