Arts Integration in Core Curriculum

Teachers, in all schools, find themselves as purveyors of the arts as they stand before their students. They work to ...
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Fourth Graders Design and Build Bat Houses

Students at the Whidbey Island Waldorf School are building wood homes for local bat populations as part of their math block curriculum. ...
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Nature Playgrounds May Improve Immunity

A new study out of Finland shows that adding natural elements to a preschool playground improved the immune systems of ...
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Connecting Music Training to Literacy

Researchers in both neuroscience and education have noted the connection between music training and literacy skill building.  Nina Kraus, a ...
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Reducing Anxiety through Adventurous Play

Psychologists from the UK, Dr. Helen Dodd and Dr Kathryn Lester, recently published the paper -- Adventurous Play as a Mechanism ...
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Academic-Based Preschool Researcher Calls for Play-Based Preschool

Dr. Dale Clark Farran, a prominent early childhood researcher at Peabody College Vandebilt University, finished a decade long study on the effects of ...
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U.S. News Features Waldorf Education

U.S. News and World Report has written a comprehensive feature story on Waldorf education -- What is a Waldorf School? This balanced look ...
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Waldorf Fourth Graders Learn Geography Through Bike Trip

Prairie Hill Waldorf Schoolstudents learned about history and geography by embarking on a two-day riding trip on the newly restored Elroy-Sparta State ...
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Learning Numbers through Native American Story

First graders at the Pasadena Waldorf Schoolare learning numbers through the Seneca Nation folklore story of Crow --  a young man ...
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