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Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able, of themselves, to impart purpose and direction to their lives. - Rudolf Steiner
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Author Archives: Susan Love
What makes a “high-quality” preschool?
High Quality Preschools Should Be Grounded in Play It’s a question asked by parents of three year olds about this time every year. They’ve been told that it’s time for their child to begin preschool. Maybe they have even been counting the days. There’s a notion very prevalent in the U.S. that we need to [...]
Has Public Education Been Left Behind?
Sir Ken Robinson discusses how it is our educational paradigm itself that has been left behind, taking our children and our future with it. More of the same will only create more of the same–rising ADHD and dropout rates, and children who are woefully unprepared for the future. He champions a radical rethink of our [...]
The Art and Science of Imagination
As part of our re-branding last year, the Da Vinci Waldorf School wrote a new tag line: “The art and science of imagination.” One of the fundamentals of Waldorf education is developing a child’s imagination. From the pictures the preschool child creates in her mind when she hears a fairy tale to the connections the [...]
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Scientific Inquiry Among the Preschool Set
Scientific Inquiry Among the Preschool Set Still more evidence from the scientific community that the wisdom of Waldorf is right on target. When engaged in what looks like child’s play, preschoolers are actually behaving like scientists, according to a new report in the journal Science: forming hypotheses, running experiments, calculating probabilities and deciphering causal relationships [...]
Not Only is it OK to Play, it’s a Necessity of Childhood
From Waldorf Today: Children’s play is threatened, say experts who advise that kids – from toddlers to tweens – should be relearning how to play. Roughhousing and fantasy feed development. Scientists disagree about what sort of play is most important, government is loath to regulate the type of toys and technology that increasingly shape the [...]
Silicon Valley Waldorf School in National News Again
NBC News visited the Waldorf School of the Peninsula recently, to film a segment The Waldorf Way: Silicon Valley school eschews technology. The California Waldorf school has been getting plenty of press since the publication of an article in the New York Times last month. The press has brought out the debate over whether high [...]
Holiday Faire
Saturday December 3rd, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. You’re invited to an afternoon of shopping and merriment, just in time for the holidays! There will be a large variety of hand-crafted, fine artisan creations and gently used books for sale. While you shop, the little ones will enjoy the supervised Children’s Wonderland and a variety [...]
Harvard Newsletter Considers Waldorf as Solution to Public School Reform
By Claudia Lenart When I first wrote about Waldorf in public schools for Conscious Choice, some 12 years ago, examples were few and far between. There was Urban Waldorf in Milwaukee and a handful of charter schools in California and Arizona. The number of Waldorf-inspired public schools was up to 45 in 2010, with another [...]
AAP Says Screen Time Has No Benefits for Kids Under 2
The American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) is once again urging parents that children under 2 should not be watching TV or spending time with screen media, while acknowledging that most parents ignore this advice. This is the first time the AAP has updated its policy on screen time since 1999, when the group first recommended [...]
Silicon Valley CEOs Send Children to Computer-Free Waldorf Schools
The New York Times published an article that looks at why many Silicon Valley tech wizards send their children to Waldorf schools, where children do not use computers. Technology experts say they believe technology has it’s time and place. Here is a clip from the article: LOS ALTOS, Calif. —The chief technology officer of eBay [...]