By design, Waldorf schools offer two world languages starting in Grade One. This fundamental part of the curriculum is instrumental in developing the flexibility of thinking and feeling necessary for truly empathetic communication.
Read MoreNatural materials like the ones you see in our Early Childhood spaces and grade school classrooms develop a sense of life in young children.
Read MoreI’m here to tell you why you should mark that evening on your calendar IN PEN and set an alert on your phone. It all comes down to three little reasons why you should attend Journey Through the Grades.
Read MoreMany classes gather each morning — regardless of whether the weather is conducive to running and jumping — because these activities have an intrinsic value beyond the obvious health benefits. In my years of orchestrating and observing these simple activities with my students, I’ve found them to be even revolutionary.
Read MoreThe rules and regulations surrounding online privacy and rights to creative content were both hot-button topics, and the students really took these up with full engagement and enthusiasm.
Read MoreThe seventh grade had the great fortune to spend three September days aboard The Adventuress, a teaching ship operated out of Port Townsend, Washington, at the start of the new school year. The trip was not a typical one, but neither are Cedarwood’s seventh graders typical students.
Read MoreThe answers to these questions shift as the children get older, and by middle school, exploring possible answers may best be done by the students themselves.
Read MoreAt Cedarwood, we facilitate discovery rather than filling our students' heads with book knowledge that is often detached from real meaning and not grounded in direct experience.
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