It's been quite a delight to try out your submissions and assemble our final list for the November, 2017 Mathematics research colloquium. You can find The Ten Theorems by selecting the button on the "The Ten Theorems Project" page of this website. We think there's something here for everyone, from sixth graders to twelfth graders, things with numbers and things with geometry. Now the fun begins!
Read moreEconomics Gathering Report
Over the weekend of December 6th, 2016, 12 colleagues met at the Maine Coast Waldorf School to discuss the place of economics in the Waldorf school curriculum. The wide ranging conversations covered topics, including places in the K-12 curriculum where we find elements of economics; topics for a high school main lesson in economics; the role of the Threefold Social Order in the curriculum; and a list of reference materials on various economics topics.
Steve Crimy and Robert Sim have written a report summarizing the December economics event which can be found on the "Writings" page.
Read moreScience Teachers Conference Update
In just over two weeks, teachers will gather in Santa Rosa to explore the stages of scientific understanding in relation to the birth of the astral body, beginning with sixth grade, in morning demonstrations with Wilfried Sommer and Craig Holdrege.
Themes of "sustainability" and the "atom" will be addressed in the afternoon sessions.
Does the sense world provide a knowledge and wisdom that is beyond the mechanical aspects of atomic concepts? If yes, how are we able to grasp them? Wilfried Sommer, Wade Cavin and John Petering will work with these questions in Physics and Chemistry experiments.
The terms “sustainability” and “sustainability education” point to our relation to earth. Craig Holdrege, Jon McAlice and Ronni Sands will collaborate to lead an exploration of aspects of sustainability, especially with respect to the Waldorf school curriculum.
If you plan to attend, register now for the Science Teachers’ conference, so that we can prepare!
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2016 Math Research Colloquium
The flavor of our recent Mathematics Research Colloquium is captured in two written contributions by Jamie York and Kevin Farey which can be found on the Writings page of this website.
Read moreFebruary 2017 Workshops
As the days grow shorter, and the weather colder, at CCS we are planning back-to-back events for the week of February 18-25, 2017 at Summerfield Waldorf School, working with these themes:
Finding a new approach to understanding the will
Understanding the relation between science and the birth of the astral body
These events will provide a context for teachers to work together, to focus on what Waldorf education can become and to grapple with the challenges coming towards us as educators.
Read moreEducation today
Writing about education today is not easy. There are many, many theories, programs, curricula and approaches vying for attention. Adding something to that mix is not necessarily productive. Yet, as a teacher, I find little in contemporary educational writing that addresses the radical challenge we encounter in children today. We live in a time in which many, if not all, the fundamental assumptions we hold concerning education must be reassessed. Why? Because the sociocultural context in which they were developed no longer exists. Our children are growing up in a world that bears little resemblance to the world that gave birth to what we tend to think of as education. Even the most radical educationalists of the past century or so could not have imagined the world we live in today.
Read moreA Path of Encounter
In a clear, straightforward, and personable style, this book introduces and guides the reader gently but rigorously into a method of spiritual development that, in the end, can be understood only on its own terms.
Read moreWaldorf education: looking upstream
During the last two months I have had the opportunity to visit a number of schools and work with teachers in conferences on the west coast and in the southeast. All the encounters have had a common theme: How can we meet the challenges coming towards us?
Read moreNew Year's greeting; February conference thoughts
I want to wish you all a good new year. I hope it brings us all the right balance of joy, challenge, humor and insight to enable us to keep growing and striving! Let it be a year in which we all find the courage to take one more decisive step on this remarkable path of becoming human.
Read moreAnother school year has begun....
Another school year has begun. Parents, children and teachers are once again settling into ordered learning situations. Parents are breathing sighs of relief. The feelings of the teachers are mixed. And the children?
Read moreEngaged Community
Engaged Community provides anyone involved in Waldorf education with the appropriate tools and language to take the hard work of dialog and conversation to a higher level.
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