Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings, who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives.

Rudolf Steiner, Founder of the first Waldorf School, 1919

Welcome to Waldorf Academy!

Waldorf Academy will feel like your child’s second home. Your child may not know everyone’s name but they will know every teacher and student. They will smell the bread baking in the Kindergarten, they will know who is celebrating their birthday, they will know when the Grade 3′s are working on their shelter projects and they will know that they are in a safe and nurturing environment that will encourage them to take risks, to question and find answers.
Waldorf schools have been perfecting the art of learning for almost a century, and everything in our school is designed to help these children thrive and grow into exceptional human beings.

How do we do it?
Every school these days claims to understand the whole child approach to education but this is how we have been doing it since 1987:

Our teachers are specially trained to follow the developmental stages of the child as developed by Rudolf Steiner and researched and supported over the past 90 years.
From Birth to Age 7: Imitation
Age 7 to 14: Imagination
Age 14 to 21: Truth
These stages are the guiding principles for how, when and what we teach.

The whole child is addressed in these stages through the hands, heart and head or as we like to say; The Will, The Emotions and The Intellect.
The Will:
The right step at the right time is the foundation of the Waldorf curriculum.
Optimal learning opportunities occur when the developmental rhythms of childhood are followed. The curriculum’s emphasis on daily and seasonal rhythms builds the child’s sense of security, instilling confidence and developing good habits.
Learning through doing develops self-initiation, self-direction, self-affirmation and intrinsic motivation.
Learning by doing enables the child to embody his or her ideas.
Developing a healthy will fosters the ability to initiate, focus, persevere and conclude.

The Emotions
The integration of the arts throughout the curriculum promotes a healthy, balanced
emotional life.
Daily experiences with the outdoors and with natural materials develop a personal
bond to nature and cultivates a respect for the environment.
Waldorf students study nature in many ways from simple stories to complex experiments.
Through collaborative learning and the long-term class journey, individuals are engaged in a dynamic social process, learning to work with each other cultivating empathy and building healthy relationships.

The Intellect
We foster intellectual development through a rigorous classical education, seamlessly weaving the arts and sciences.
The depth and breadth of our interdisciplinary curriculum cultivates
imagination and develops creativity in thinking and problem solving.
A phenomenological approach to learning sparks curiosity and allows the child to
form questions and discover answers on their own.

Waldorf Academy is committed to equal-opportunity education and welcomes families of all ethnic, social and religious backgrounds.