by Saul Nishan | WSP Class of 2023 The daughter of parents who fled the South and Jim Crow, Isabel Wilkerson sought real stories from real people. She was the first black woman to be a Pulitzer Prize winner, and the first African American to win for individual...
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Opinion: Edible Food is too Often Destined for the Dumpster
by Sohei Wu | WSP Class of 2023 I recently got a job working at a restaurant and after a couple of weeks the abstract concept of food waste became concrete in my mind. It was no longer just the idea of food being lost, I was starting to see real food wasted. And much...
EI Week: Exploring Bay Area Diversity
by Dylan Lee | WSP Class of 2023 Experiential Interdisciplinary Week (better known as EI Week) is a week-long engaged learning process in which high school students at WSP “learn by doing”. The planning of EI Week starts in winter when high school faculty and students...
Meet Coach Sarah
by Melanie Ingler | Communications Coordinator Coach Sarah Triolo comes to WSP with a background in kinesiology, fitness, sports nutrition, and enjoys working with people who are struggling with health issues. We are so excited that Coach Sarah has expanded her...
3 Surprising Things about WSP’s FIRST® Robotics Tournament
by Christine McQuade Hsu | Advancement Director WSP hosted a FIRST® Tech Robotics Qualifying Tournament on the Mountain View campus earlier this month. The STEM group that convenes the event is named First—but the event was a first in other ways, too: until now, WSP...
WSP Hosts FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Tournament
by Melanie Ingler | Communications Coordinator 16 local schools competed in a FIRST Tech Challenge Qualifying Tournament at our beautiful campus in Mountain View earlier this month. For many teams, this was one of the first in-person competitions since the start of...
High School Met Gala — An Experiential Review
by Rich Armstrong | WSP Music Teacher and HS Dance DJ The High School Courtyard was magically transformed into a red-carpeted, paparazzi-infused tunnel that opened into an art gallery and dance hall. Much effort was made to give the students an amazing experience,...
Wonders of Blacksmithing
by Phil Dwyer | HS Teacher Most of what we use in our modern world can be traced back to the fires of a blacksmith’s forge. Most crafts and trades either began or evolved with the forming of hot iron under the blacksmith’s hammer. The most fundamental impact, of...
Congraulations Walbots!
by Lea Fredrickson | HS Faculty & Walbots Sponsor On Sunday December 5th, just one day after hosting the Fairebot at the Winter Faire, the Walbots participated in their first qualifying tournament of the season. The team and their robot did very well, making it to...
Executive Functioning and Waldorf Education
Admissions Director Ashley Brickeen reflects on Dr. Adele Diamond’s Common Ground talk on “The Essentials of Executive Functioning – Building the Skills to Flourish” and offers her thoughts on how Waldorf education supports the development of the four categories of executive function skills.