Westside Waldorf Alum Releases Album

Congratulations to Samuel Siskind, a 17-year-old composer and former student of Westside Waldorf School on the release of his debut ...
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Social Emotional Skills in Kindergarten Linked to Later Success

A study published in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) found that children’s prosocial skills, built through social emotional ...
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Shining Mountain Waldorf Alum Walks in Space

Lead Space Operations Engineer, Sarah Gillis, a graduate of Shining Mountain Waldorf School Class of 2012, is aboard SpaceX's Dragon ...
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Be Worthy of Imitation: Why Modeling Matters at Home and in Class

We have dreams and hopes for our children that often extend beyond mimicry of our own lives. We hope they ...
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Happiness in the Classroom

We all want our children to be happy, and while this is traditionally thought of as an at-home concern, we ...
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A Case for Deferring Electronic Media in the Classroom

A three-year-old talks to grandma on Skype. A seven-year-old reads a fairy-tale with Dad on a Kindle.  A child with spatial-awareness issues plays ...
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Teach Children to Seek Significance over Success

Abraham Maslow believed that one of our most essential needs is to feel loved and needed by those around us. ...
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Reframing Failure in The Classroom

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” - Ken Robinson We want our ...
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Responsible Innovation in Education

“Innovation in Education,” is an umbrella term that means different things to different researchers and educators. While there is no ...
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