Urban farmers Jon McNamara and Emily Mabry operate River Road Gardens, a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project on the campus of the Tucson Waldorf School. The multiple beds of Jon and Emily’s farm lie on the south side of the school property, alongside a busy county road that is the major thoroughfare on the north…READ MORE >
Articles
Amy Crown: Fairy Tales for Brave Hearts
The words “fairy tale” evoke different feelings for different people. Many of those feelings meld memories from childhood with considerations of literature and academic definitions, and the memories come with images – from the favorite images in favorite books through the moving pictures of technological media and back around to the very personal pictures that…READ MORE >
Leo Klein, Artist and Educator
Leo Klein taught for 37 years at the Waldorf school in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, his work including classes with elementary school children and with high school students. Since 1992 Leo Klein has traveled Canada and the United States, stopping at Waldorf school across the continent to share his artwork, observe, converse, laugh, and coach teachers,…READ MORE >
Blackboard Drawings
One of the rewards found teaching in a Waldorf school is the required opportunity to work with colored chalk on the blackboard. In the Waldorf classroom, we put drawings on the board to create mood and atmosphere in the classroom and to be an artful aid to the students, encouraging them to enter their lessons imaginatively.…READ MORE >
Who Speaks? Hans Pusch and Practicing the Spoken Word
It has been my good fortune working with Waldorf Education to experience inspiration in classes devoted to artistic, pedagogic and therapeutic speech for teachers. I was a grateful student in those sessions, presented at various times by more than one excellent teacher who helped us with exercises in speaking, a fundamental classroom activity. Those speech…READ MORE >
Kathryn Ashley-Wright and Ewetopia Fiber Shop
As a young girl, Kathryn Ashley-Wright moved with her mother Lisa Ashley from New York to Wisconsin where farm life became their life, and Kathryn learned to spin wool on her mother’s wheel. She learned to knit at Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School, and later as a student at the University of Wisconsin she studied rural…READ MORE >