Homeschooling Lecture
Eugene Schwartz recently spoke to a group of homeschooling parents in Manhattan. His lecture, “Homeschooling: Necessity and Challenge,” provides insight into the reasons that homeschooling is the fastest-growing segment of Waldorf education. To purchase it, click here and scroll to the bottom of the Catalog page
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Eugene Schwartz recently spoke to a group of homeschooling parents in Manhattan. His lecture, “Homeschooling: Necessity and Challenge,” provides insight into the reasons that homeschooling is the fastest-growing segment of Waldorf education. To purchase it, click here and scroll to the bottom of the Catalog page
Become a Member of MillennialChild.com
Help us continue to offer the growing number of free resources that are improving the quality of education offered to thousands of children around the world. An annual membership of $50, or a monthly membership of $5, helps us purchase and maintain the hardware, software, and Internet service providers that are necessary for a site that offers so much. Annual Members receive a 30% discount on CD Downloads and one free phone consultation a year with Eugene Schwartz; Monthly Members receive a 20% discount on Downloads.
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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.
Become a Member of MillennialChild.com
Help us continue to offer the growing number of free resources that are improving the quality of education offered to thousands of children around the world. An annual membership of $50, or a monthly membership of $5, helps us purchase and maintain the hardware, software, and Internet service providers that are necessary for a site that offers so much. Annual Members receive a 30% discount on CD Downloads and one free phone consultation a year with Eugene Schwartz; Monthly Members receive a 20% discount on Downloads.
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Eugene Schwartz recently spoke to a group of homeschooling parents in Manhattan. His lecture, “Homeschooling: Necessity and Challenge,” provides insight into the reasons that homeschooling is the fastest-growing segment of Waldorf education. To purchase it, click here and scroll to the bottom of the Catalog page.
Read David Kennedy’s interview with Eugene Schwartz on WaldorfToday.com.
Eugene answers a number of incisive questions about the role of online Waldorf conferences and the future of Waldorf education.
Click here to view their conversation.
Just Announced:
Online and by Phone in the Summer of 2012:
July 23, 25, and 27 Only
Following the success of the Grades 4 – 7 online conferences and intensives, many teachers have asked Eugene Schwartz to lead an online conference for Grade Eight. His response has been to offer a “Teacher’s Forum,” partly online and partly by conference call.
Click here to learn more.
Click here to register for the Grade Eight Teachers’ Forum.
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.
View an excerpt from the Grade Five Online Conference here.
Click here for FAQs about the Online Conferences
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
HalfTime Webinars with Eugene Schwartz
Online for teachers in the Southern Hemisphere
from June 22, 2012 through July 22, 2012
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 US $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 iWaldorf@me.com for information.
We look forward to having you join us!
Whither Waldorf? A Debate
The First-Ever Debate about Issues in Waldorf Education
Critics of Waldorf education often label it a “closed system” that resists innovation and not tolerate debate. In reality, Waldorf education has been undergoing profound changes. Responding to intense pressure from parents, independent Waldorf schools have quietly replaced “generalist” class teachers with specialists, introduced testing and grades at the middle school level, and made homework in early grades more the rule than the exception. But because of the schools’ aversion to open debate, these changes have come in through the “back door,” and have become accomplished facts that are hard to reverse.
With this in mind, the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education dared to tread where independent Waldorf schools fear to go, and invited Rainbow Rosenbloom and Eugene Schwartz to engage in a debate about a number of substantive issues living in the Waldorf movement.
Click here to view the debate on Vimeo.com
A New Article on the American Waldorf High School
The Rundbrief (Newsletter) of the German foundation Freunde der Erziehungskunst (“Friends of Waldorf Education”) asked Eugene Schwartz to write an article on the state of Waldorf high schools in the United States. To read his article in the English-language edition of the Rundbrief, click here and scroll down to page 21. The article is entitled “High School as the Secret Formula.”
Overview of Our Features:
Visit our Online CD Catalog: Over sixty titles on all aspects of child development, Waldorf education, and parenting - PARTIALLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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.
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, none of which was destined to 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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