by Kevin Krasnow | Director of College Counseling A little over a week ago, the U.S. News & World Report released their annual rankings of colleges and universities. Before long, I was receiving texts and emails from family, friends, and colleagues in higher...
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October 4th – A Day Without Driving
by Bayaan Mengerink | WSP Alum Hello, I'm a former WSP student and current Fordham University College Student. I am reaching out to share an event I've organized for the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition - A Day Without Driving! A Day Without Driving will take place...
Why Does a Waldorf Class Teacher Traditionally Stay with their Class in Grades One through Eight?
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...
The Fit Factor: Finding the Right College
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...
15 Tech Alternatives for Winter Break
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...
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...
Simple Thrills
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...
Thanksgiving through the Advent Season
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...
The Garden Gate: Acorns, Frosts, and Composts
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...
Rich Armstrong: Visionary Music Fanatic
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...
Rankings: What Are They Good For? Absolutely (well, mostly) Nothing.
by Kevin Krasnow | Director of College Counseling A little over a week ago, the U.S. News & World Report released their annual rankings of colleges and universities. Before long, I was receiving texts and emails from family, friends, and colleagues in higher...
October 4th – A Day Without Driving
by Bayaan Mengerink | WSP Alum Hello, I'm a former WSP student and current Fordham University College Student. I am reaching out to share an event I've organized for the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition - A Day Without Driving! A Day Without Driving will take place...
Why Does a Waldorf Class Teacher Traditionally Stay with their Class in Grades One through Eight?
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...
The Fit Factor: Finding the Right College
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...
15 Tech Alternatives for Winter Break
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...
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...
Simple Thrills
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...
Thanksgiving through the Advent Season
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...
The Garden Gate: Acorns, Frosts, and Composts
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...
Rich Armstrong: Visionary Music Fanatic
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...