Reflections on Steiner's lectures to teachers at the Steiner Cafe

Teaming up with my friend Alison here, we are digging deep to try to understand this lecture! On August 26, 1919, Steiner spoke to his teacher trainees for the morning lecture of the Teacher’s Seminar. Steiner explains…

Read-Aloud June

I love curling up with my kids and a great book! Reading aloud is good for everyone. It’s calming, centering, and connecting, not to mention the skills development and modeling going on. In the summertime at our…

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On Day Four of the Teacher’s Seminar in 1919, one of the teachers picks up a piece of chalk to demonstrate taking a whole piece of something and showing how it can be divided by being broken. Steiner…

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“You must look on the first lesson you have with your pupils in every class as outstandingly important.” Thus Steiner begins Day Four of his midday lectures to the teachers in the first Waldorf School (collected in…

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Waldorf education is experiential. Its founder, Rudolf Steiner, was adamant that we cannot merely tell a child something once and expect learning to take place. We must work with the power of the will in Waldorf education….

Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day to you! a picture of my boys 20 years ago!!! May you appreciate whatever comes your way today and not get stuck on what doesn’t! My best tip is to ask for what you…

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“Now it is really very important, particularly for those who want to work as teachers, to get rid of the habit of unnecessary criticism…it is not a question of always trying to improve on what has already…