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...
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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...
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...
WSP’s Roots and Branches in Full Bloom on GrandFriends’ Day
by Marina Budrys | HS Faculty and GrandFriends’ Day Event Coordinator On the night before the Los Altos campus GrandFriends Day, I woke up many times. I’m no diagnosed insomniac but I definitely struggle to sleep when big events or new responsibilities are on the...
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...
Lunar New Year Then and Now
An interview with WSP Parent and Early Childhood Assistant, Yixin Zhang by Christine McQuade-Hsu | Advancement Director How did you celebrate the Lunar New Year when you were growing up? I was born in China and grew up in China. Although we have many festivals,...
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...
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...
WSP’s Roots and Branches in Full Bloom on GrandFriends’ Day
by Marina Budrys | HS Faculty and GrandFriends’ Day Event Coordinator On the night before the Los Altos campus GrandFriends Day, I woke up many times. I’m no diagnosed insomniac but I definitely struggle to sleep when big events or new responsibilities are on the...
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...
Lunar New Year Then and Now
An interview with WSP Parent and Early Childhood Assistant, Yixin Zhang by Christine McQuade-Hsu | Advancement Director How did you celebrate the Lunar New Year when you were growing up? I was born in China and grew up in China. Although we have many festivals,...