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WBALTV is shining the spotlight on the importance of environmental education in schools and the Waldorf School of Baltimore’s new partnership with John Newman Bees. Beekeeping will be a key component of the school’s nature program in the fall.  Kindergartners will learn basic information, like how bees make honey, while older students, such as fifth graders, will learn more

Jeff Zhou, a rising senior at San Francisco Waldorf High School, recently wrote an essay about his experiences with the Unistellar and SETI Institute science team at Seti.org. Zhou was inspired to do his senior project exoplanets and their potential habitability after a presentation given at school by SETI Institute Planetary Astronomer Dr. Franck Marchis.  Zhou says,

Toronto Waldorf School teacher Mary-lu Spinney was recently featured in YorkRegion.com for growing her vegetables in a manner that regenerates soil through indigenous planting methods. Once such method, called “Three Sisters,” involves growing corn until it reaches about a foot tall, then adding pole beans to grow up the stalks like a trellis, allowing the beans return nitrogen

Aurora Waldorf School is in the news for the outdoor education they offer on their 31-acre campus in Western New York. Spectrum Local News reports that students of all ages are outside most of the day, rain or shine.  Kathryn Lalley, the school’s Marketing and Communications Director says this type of education is more important than ever post

Alabama Waldorf School middle school students learned about the Civil Rights movement and the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, AL during a field trip to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. This year commemorates the 60-year anniversary of the bombing. The field trip, created for all area middle school students, centered around Christopher Paul Curtis’