By Robert Kostrzeski | Director of College Counseling I am truly delighted to have joined the Waldorf School of the Peninsula community this semester as the new Director of College Counseling. My first visit to campus was filled with delightful highlights: fresh eggs...
By Leah Lader | WSP Music Teacher At Waldorf School of the Peninsula, students experience music as a journey of self-discovery, challenge, skill, community building, and emotional expression. Here, music is more than an elective, it is a vital and integral aspect of...
by Marina Budrys | High School Faculty Member Behind S.E.L or Social Emotional Learning rests the idea that humans undergo a process of learning how to develop healthy social relationships from birth onward and that there are key elements that contribute to a...
by Melanie Ingler | Communications Coordinator At WSP, we are fortunate to have two alums of our school serving as physical education teachers. Liam and Marina bring with them rich backgrounds in physical fitness and athletics, coupled with a deep passion for...
by Kevin Krasnow | Director of College Counseling When I was organizing the senior project presentations, the last thing I expected was that we would end them dancing the night away. But that’s exactly what happened at the end of our first day of presentations! Our...
by Lisa Babinet | WSP Faculty Member I was so eager to read Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation that I started listening to the audiobook the morning it was released. I had heard the book would speak to my growing concerns about teenage mental health. Having...
by Melanie Ingler | Communications Coordinator At Waldorf School of the Peninsula, education reaches far beyond the confines of the classroom and campus. Our High School Exchange program facilitates cultural immersion, offering students transformative experiences that...
contributed by Phil Dwyer | Earth Arts Teacher "The Village Blacksmith" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (artwork by grade 10 students) ...Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something...
by Marina Budrys | High School Humanities Teacher What is the future of education if artificial intelligence can write essays, give quick answers to whatever questions we have, and translate languages instantaneously? Is schooling, the way we know it, on its way out?...
by Phil Dwyer | Middle & High School Teacher AWAY straight and tall / swift and true I shoot my arrow into the center of all One week every year the high school suspends its classes for Experiential Interdisciplinary (EI) Week. It reconfigures itself during this...
