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A graduate of Columbia University, Eugene Schwartz has worked with all stages of life, from the young child to the elderly and the dying.  He began his teaching career by adapting the Waldorf schools' curriculum to educate a group of handicapped and emotionally disturbed adolescents, after which he became a class teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School in Chestnut Ridge, NY.             

            In addition to his thirty years of experience as a class teacher and high school teacher, Eugene has taught prospective teachers at Rudolf Steiner College and Sunbridge College, where he served as Director of Teacher Education. He has served as a consultant to Waldorf endeavors throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Mexico, Norway, Austria and Italy.  Over the past decade, he has worked in this capacity with over one hundred schools, including public schools in the New York metropolitan area.  Eugene was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Princeton, NJ, in which capacity he worked with public school teachers from across the nation.  Eugene also worked closely with the late Ernest Boyer, the Foundation's president, to establish new curricular ideas and methods.  He has lectured on new ideas in education at Harvard, Columbia, University of Tennessee Medical Center, and the Aspen Institute. He recently gave the first lectures on Waldorf education ever presented in Turkey, and in October, 2007, he will speak at the The Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship Conference in England. 

            In conjunction with Bonnie River and Betty Staley, Eugene will be teaching at an innovative new Masters degree program in Waldorf Education that will begin at Touro University (Vallejo, CA) in September of 2007. For more information on this program, contact bonnieriver@gradalis.com.

            Eugene is the author of ten books on Waldorf education, including Millennial Child (Steinerbooks) and Waldorf Education: Schools for the 21^st Century (XLibris). He recently wrote and directed the new DVD, Eurythmy: Making Movement Human. Fifty of his lectures are available on CD through his website, www.millennialchild.com, which also includes articles, commentary, and resource materials that he has written.  

            Eugene now works full time as an educational consultant, mentor, and lecturer. Schools interested in having him visit may call him at 610.906.7644 or e-mail him at info@millennialchild.com .