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Welcome to MillennialChild.com. We hope to serve as a resource for anyone interested in educating children in the twenty-first century. Our foundations lie in Waldorf education, which in turn arises out of Anthroposophy, a worldview promulgated by Rudolf Steiner. Our web site grows out of the wish to share as much about Waldorf education’s roots and fruits as we can with the widest possible audience. We hope that millennialchild.com is helpful to all educators and parents who visit it. To view a biography of Eugene Schwartz, the site’s creator, click here. If you wish to contact us by phone, click on the “Leave a Voicemail” icon at the bottom of every page.
Grade One, Grade Two and Grade Three Essential Conferences
Know What. Know How. Know Why.
These popular, affordable, and eminently practical three-day conferences began ten years ago and have been serving the needs of primary school Waldorf teachers ever since. Located in the bucolic settings of Kimberton, Pennsylvania, the conferences are led by Eugene Schwartz and Raine Springer. We cover as much -- if not more -- content in three days than other conferences cover in a week, while the dedicated web sites that accompany each conference provide resources, support, and advice throughout the school year.
Click here to learn more about the conferences
Click here to register for Grade 1
Click here to register for Grade 2
Click here to register for Grade 3
Online in the Summer of 2012: Grade Four, Grade Five and Grade Six, all with MyTime!
Your Dates. Your Space. Your Pace.
Due to the success of the first-ever Online Waldorf Teachers’ Conference for teachers of Grade Four, we will be offering this conference again in the Summer of 2012, along with last year’s well-received Grade Five Online Conference AND a new Grade Six Online Conference as well. We are pleased to announce that Roberto Trostli, master Waldorf teacher and author of “Physics is Fun,” will be presenting Physics demonstrations in a remarkable video on the Grade 6 Conference. Stay at home and save on transportation, housing, and dining expenses, while listening to and watching 25 presentations by Eugene Schwartz. The very low tuition (Grade 4: $200; Grade 5: $250; Grade 6: $300) is all that you have to spend!
Join us with MyTime. Each conference will be offered from June 11th through August 24th. When you register, choose any 14-day period that suits you, and you will be given a unique 14-day password that will allow you to watch and listen to the conference lectures and presentations as often as you like, and at any time that is convenient to you.
The Grade Four, Grade Five, and Grade Six Online Conferences will be online, at a computer near you, from June 11 through August 24, 2012.
Click here for Online Grade 4 Details
Register for Grade 4
Click here for Online Grade 5 Details
Register for Grade 5
Click here for Online Grade 6 Details
Register for Grade 6
Online in the Summer of 2012: The Grade Seven Intensive
Our very first Online Grade Seven conference will not take place until Summer, 2013. However, to accommodate the many class teachers in those grades who wish to work online this year, we are offering our Online Grade Seven Intensive. And just what is an “Intensive”? . . . Click below to learn more!
Grade 7 Intensive Details
Register for Grade 7
Visit Our Revamped Online Catalog!
We have rebuilt our Online Catalog! You will find it easier to navigate, and you can expect your downloads to arrive even faster than before. Click on the “Catalog Guide” tab above, or on this link: Online Catalog for more information.
The following Catalog pages are online:
The Elements of the Waldorf Curriculum
Master Classes: Teaching Grade One
Master Classes: Teaching Grade Two
Master Classes: Teaching Grade Three
Master Classes: Teaching Grade Four
Master Classes: Teaching Grade Five
Master Classes: Teaching Grade Six
Master Classes: Teaching Grade Seven
Class Plays for Grades 1-7 on CD-ROMs
Waldorf Education for All (DVD)
Eurythmy: Making Movement Human (DVD)
CDs on Parenting and Child Development Part 1
CDs on Parenting and Child Development Part 2
CDs on Parenting and Child Development Part 3
CDs on Parenting and Child Development Part 4
Christianity and Waldorf Education
Teacher Development
Waldorf Education and Anthroposophy
Rudolf Steiner Course CDs and Downloads
HalfTime Webinars with Eugene Schwartz
Online for teachers in North America and Worldwide
from December 26, 2011 to January 31, 2012
Registration is Still Open
We offer a different Webinar for every grade, Classes One through Eight, in the Waldorf school setting.
Each Webinar will be a two-hour presentation by Eugene Schwartz in which he will address the ups and downs that every teacher may experience at this half-way point in the school year in his or her particular grade. Drawing on his 30 years as a Waldorf teacher and his experiences as a mentor of hundreds of teachers, Eugene will make suggestions of value to today’s teachers in today’s classrooms.
To accommodate the busy schedules of participating teachers -- and the many time zones in which they work -- each Webinar will be posted on the Internet and available for viewing at any time of day for an entire month. Once you have registered, you will be sent a private link to the Webinar site and you may view it at your own convenience. All the content, visual and audio, can be accessed on your computer, so there will be no additional costs for telephone transmission.
Click Here for the Individual Webinar Registration Form
Click Here to Register all Class Teachers in a School
Much of what will be covered has been drawn from questions submitted by teachers from around the world. Eugene will provide realistic benchmarks to help teachers judge their class’s progress academically, artistically, and socially. He will give sound advice concerning parent work at this time of year. He will address the challenges teachers face in maintaining their own enthusiasm and inspiration, and discuss the ways in which an anthroposophical approach to teaching may be helpful. His spiritual, yet practical, advice will help teachers face the rest of their year proactively.
Individual Teachers: The fee for each Webinar is $25.00. We can only accept payments made through PayPal. Click here to access the Registration Form and payment information.
Whole School: We offer discounts to schools sponsoring four or more faculty members, and for teachers of combined classes who need to attend more than one Webinar. Click here to access the Whole School Registration Form with a 25% discount.
Please email raineone@mac.com for information.
We look forward to having you join us!
Overview of Our Features:
Visit our Online CD Catalog: Over sixty titles on all aspects of child development, Waldorf education, and parenting
Download our Podcasts of lectures given across North America and Europe.
Our slideshows have returned. View Form Drawing in Grades 1, 2, and 3; more to come over the next months.
Read our Articles and Commentary, including The Waldorf Curriculum Presented as Year-by-Year Main Lesson Block Rotations & Subject Descriptions:
Grade One ● ● ● Grade Two ● ● ● Grade Three ● ● ● Grade Four
Grade Five ● ● ● Grade Six ● ● ● Grade Seven ● ● ● Grade Eight
(Some of these Curriculum Descriptions have been translated into Japanese. Currently available are:
Grade One in Japanese: ウォルドルフ学校カリキュラム １年生
Grade Two in Japanese: ウォルドルフ学校カリキュラム ２年生
A number of videos created by Eugene Schwartz may be viewed on YouTube.com and other venues. Click on the Videos tab for links and summaries.
Visit our Links Page to find other web sites of interest.
Consultation by Phone
Eugene is again available for phone consultations with teachers, home educators, and parents. Click here for more information.
Dragonsblood, A Michaelmas Story by Eugene Schwartz
Waldorf Educator Isolde Perry writes: “Years ago, I heard a story that Eugene Schwartz told during a lecture. I remembered that it was brilliant. It was a story about a dragon, naturally, and was used to “explain” and bring solace about a then-recent environmental disaster -- the Exxon-Valdez. I wonder if it has ever been published. . .” Click here for a preview of this Rudolf Steiner College Press publication.
The Rudolf Steiner Course CD Set: “Like having a Foundation Year in a Box!”
That is how one teacher described her experience of the 25-hour long course by Eugene Schwartz -- the most comprehensive treatment of Rudolf Steiner’s life and work ever given in English. The complete contents of the Rudolf Steiner Course given in March, 2011, are now available -- you can choose to “pay-as-you-go” and listen Online, or you can purchase parts or all of the Course on CDs and Downloads. For more information, click below:
For information about listening Online.
For information about purchasing CDs or Downloads.
View the video about the Course.
Waldorf Education for All, a new DVD
The First Film about Waldorf Charter Schools
Waldorf Education for All marks the first time that Waldorf charter schools -- tuition free public schools that ascribe to a developmental methodology and teach according to the Waldorf curriculum -- have ever been filmed. Field coordinator Eugene Schwartz and his crew visited four Waldorf charter schools in Northern California in the spring of 2010 and set to work. Nothing was staged or prearranged: they filmed real classrooms with real children being taught by real teachers.
Read more and order the DVD.
Watch the trailer.
A New Video: What is Waldorf Education?
In preparation for a new documentary about Waldorf education, the Marin Waldorf School interviewed Eugene Schwartz in Mill Valley, CA in the autumn of 2010. This two-part video presents the entire interview, only a small part of which will appear in the finished film. This version is uncut and unedited: watch Eugene sweat and squirm as he is relentlessly grilled by two interviewers who refuse to accept platitudes as answers! These interviews may be viewed at: http://vimeo.com/22396764 and http://vimeo.com/22397678
. . . . And Two More New Videos
Two Full-Length Lectures
by Eugene Schwartz have
recently been posted on Vimeo.com:
Incarnation, Interrupted: Autism and Our Age
This lecture was given in England, at the Glasshouse College, a remarkable center for work with developmentally-challenged young people. Eugene Schwartz draws on the psychological and sociological methodology of Rudolf Steiner to present a picture of autism that embeds it in a wide range of phenomena of the times in which we live.
Today’s Children Need Tomorrow’s Schools
Another lecture given in England, this time at the Elmfield School. A comprehensive introduction to Waldorf education, featuring slides
of work by Waldorf students.
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