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2009 Essential Conferences for Grades 4, 5, 6, & 7

in Mancos, CO July, 2009

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2009 Essential Conferences for Grades 1 & 2 in Kimberton, PA June, 2009

Visit our web site

 

Resources for Home Schoolers

 

Eugene Schwartz Biography

 

Eugene Schwartz Resume

 

NEW: Discover Waldorf Education, an introductory video on YouTube.

 

NEW: To view Grade Six Geometry,

another YouTube video, click here.

 

NEW:To view From Movement to Form, click here

 

NEW:To view From Story to Letter, click here

 

Reading and Writing,

The Waldorf Approach - 

click here to view this 20-minute

video on YouTube

 

Eugene Schwartz interview on Alaska Public Radio - listen to the hour-long program recorded on Rudolf Steiner's birthday, 2007

 

Eurythmy - Making Movement Human - view excerpts

 

Millennial Children-

listen to the entire lecture

 

Watch a Google Video of Eugene Schwartz's Introduction to Waldorf given in Izmir, Turkey, May 2006

 

Watch a Google Video of an excerpt from Eugene's lecture No Childhood Left Behind

 

Articles:             Blinking, Feeling, & Willing

 

High Stakes Testing & Waldorf Schools

 

Beyond Cognition - Children and Television

 

Do the Festivals Have a Future?

 

Assuming Nothing: Nature vs. Nurture

 

Handwork and Intellectual Development

 

ADHD: A Challenge of Our Time  

 

The Cry for Myth

 

Freedom of Choice or Freedom From Choice?             

 

Computers in Education      

 

Helping Your Child's Teacher Communicate 

 

The Sixth Grade Crisis

 

From Playing to Thinking

 

Demystifiying Adolescence

 

Verses for the Primary Grades

 

Barbi Sheffer

B a r b i a n d D ou g S h e f f e r h o s t e d o ur f i r s t e v e nt s

t o g a r n e r l o ca l i n t e r e s t i n Wa ld o r f .

Our progress has always been two

steps forward and one step back.

In 1994, our budget and enrollment

were so low that the board of trust-

ees said we couldn’t re-open. Betsy

Engelman and I designed an insert

for the valley newspapers, a lovely

four-color spread that Doug flew

from the printers in Glenwood up

to Aspen in his helicopter. We

plopped them down at the board

meeting, all 25,000 of them,

and said, “Yes! We have a school.

Ever y newspaper in the valley will

say so!” and we did.

From the beginning, we met many

educators who were devoted, well-

spoken, can-do individuals. Doug

and I attended the first workshop

with Merlyn and Rene Querido at

Star Mesa and although parts of

the lecture felt “out there,” when

Merlyn had all of us dancing a

five-pointed star while learning our

multiplication tables, I thought,

“Yes! This is how children should

learn!”

We enrolled in Patty Fox’s CMC

class and became ever more

involved. The first fund-raiser in

spring of 1991 was at our house.

We were ecstatic when we raised

$8,000, even if we later discovered

that $6,000 came from Patty’s

mother-in-law, Pauline Fox, who

wanted her grandchildren in a Wal-

dorf school. The mayor, Bill Stirling,

attended that event and parked his

car blocking traffic. In the middle

of Eugene Schwartz’s lecture, in

walked two police officers. Then we

felt really subversive!

“Waldorf education is the most

exciting, rewarding, politically

subversive thing I can do to

save the world.”

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