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...
Student Work
The Aesthetics of Working…In Stone
by Phil Dwyer | Earth Arts Teacher The will to work. The will to persevere at discarding the superfluous. The will to develop the skills, and the will to use them diligently without interruption or distraction is a noteworthy undertaking these days…for anyone,...
Five Things You Can Do to Support Your Student to Successfully Navigate the School Year
by Ramona Budrys | Class Teacher Perhaps you are wondering how to support your student to successfully navigate the school year. What best practices can contribute to the students’ well-being so that they are fully present to be able to learn? We have five practical...
Knitting is Coding and More
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...
Why Do We Bake Bread in Early Childhood?
by Ashley Brickeen | Admissions Director Nursery School -Grade 8 What are the children doing when they bake bread in Early Childhood? They are: developing fine motor strength and control: kneading the dough and shaping the loaves strengthens the hand muscles and...
Coding in a Waldorf High School Humanities Class
by Marina Budrys | High School Humanities Faculty Member Rudolf Steiner believed that it is really important to understand how things work in the world in some basic way. This doesn’t mean, for example, that we all need to know how to build an Audi TT engine, but some...
Sixth Grade Statistics Projects
by Dr. Lisa Babinet | Middle and High School Math Faculty Being able to capture phenomena in the world with numerical data is a powerful skill. Traditionally, sixth graders undertake just that by embarking on a statistics research project with a topic of their...
Book Review: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
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...
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...