Every week I receive the Steiner Books Sunday Letter from Kathy Donchak. As part of her weekly letter, Kathy shares a short anthroposophical podcast (https://steinerbooks.org/sunday-letter-podcast ). Although I have appreciated each podcast, I found her April 23rd podcast with Dr. Lakshmi Prasanna especially relevant for this time. In this podcast,...

As one of the student support teachers at the Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork, I can feel the collective energy that all of us Waldorf teachers are creating right now as we think about how to bring our rich, "real world" curriculum to our students and their parents through virtual means. If you are like me, figuring out how to channel the creati...

This blog is for Kindergarten-Grade 8 class teachers. Create a Viable System to Effectively Encourage and Engage Parents' Help In and Out of the Classroom Being a Waldorf teacher has its joys and its challenges. Certainly, one of the challenges is the amount of time it takes to prepare our lessons, stay on top of our classroom organization, at...

Dear Class Teachers, Have you noticed that for those students in your class who have not seen each other all summer the first day of school is much more about social interactions among peers than it is about the curriculum? The energy and excitement that surrounds coming together again can often overshadow the form and content that the teacher has ...

We've come to that point in the summer when it's time to plan your coming year. But where do you begin? One of the first things you want to do is to create your block rotation. Our greatest teacher, Experience, and our mentors and colleagues have given us a number of excellent ideas for developing a yearly plan that supports a healthy academic...

This post is for grades 1-8. Your Students Need Integrated Movement Throughout the Day Are your students getting "spring fever?" Are you feeling a bit stale? Well we have an idea for you – add more integrated movement into your lessons! Waldorf teachers know that when we want our students to learn a new concept or skill the best approach is to enga...

Janet Langley & Patti Connolly Blog #2 is for grades 3-8 class teachers. One of the main reasons a family chooses to enroll their child in a Waldorf school is that they love what they see happening in the classroom when they come for a visit. They are impressed with the creative presentations of the lessons, how music and speech are woven into ...

Blog #1 is for grades 1-8 class teachers. Each time we talk with Waldorf alumni students about their school experience, it doesn't take long for the conversation to come around to their animated, joyful descriptions of their annual class plays. We love listening to them recount this scene or that scene, or the time that so-and-so forgot her lines a...