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Waldorf News
Jun. 2025
Panel Discussion on Emergency Pedagogy
On Saturday, 14 June 2025, a public panel discussion on the topic «How can children be helped in crisis and war situations?» will take place at the Goetheanum at 5.30 pm. The discussion in German can also be followed live via livestream.
Jun. 2025
Dear Brother Dr. Steiner
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death, Linda Williams from the United States spoke about her relationship to Rudolf Steiner.
Jun. 2025
Bridging Now to Next: Celebration of Reconciliation Week in Australia
Birali Steiner School, located in Queensland, Australia, honoured National Reconciliation Week 2025 with a meaningful day of activities, reflection, and cultural connection. Guided by this year’s theme, Bridging Now to Next, the school community…
May 2025
AWSNA 2025 Association Conference
Deepening the Art of Teaching and Leading, association meeting and concerence of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America at the Toronto Waldorf School to be held June 21st to the 26th.
May 2025
WAPASA Summer Conference
The World Association Puppetry and Storytelling Arts (WAPASA) is holding its annual conference July 31st to August 3rd.
May 2025
Sunbridge Summer Series 2025
Sunbridge Institute offers 5-day online courses in preparation of the next school year.
Sven Saar,
May 2025
WALDORF 360: an ambitious project
On April 16, 2025, during the International High School Conference in Kassel, the Modern Teacher team hosted the final of 60 weekly sessions of “Waldorf 360: Global High School Network”. The initiative was born out of a breaktime conversation at the…
Mar. 2025
Save the Date: Summer 2025 Virtual Professional Development
The Alliance for Public Waldorf Education will host an online event in July.
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Angelika Lonnemann,
Jun. 2025
Hee Haw, Woof Woof, Cock-a-Doodle-doo
Humans are biophilic beings – that is, we are designed in such a way that we want to form bonds with all other living beings, or rather, that we cannot do otherwise. The fact that we give animals names or bury them in graves with tombstones is not an…
Arefeh Rezvanmanesh,
May 2025
Learning German to Study Waldorf
At the beginning, there wasn’t even a toilet—just mulberry trees and grapevines. Today, the «Garden of Childhood» in Iran has become a second home for a hundred people. Our author recounts its development.
Gabriele Ebeling,
May 2025
Walking Through Magdeburg for one Night
You don't always have to travel far away to experience something special. It can also be possible in your own neighborhood if you simply change your perspective. Our author spent seven hours walking through her hometown at night with her ninth-grade…
Angelika Schmitt,
May 2025
About Love in Recognition
Our author is the director of the Rudolf Steiner Archives in Dornach. Here she explores Rudolf Steiner's concept of love. Steiner understands love as a creative force and links it to thinking and cognition. He emphasizes the intuitive nature of…
Anne Brockmann,
May 2025
Animation Series, Rap Songs and Latent Issues
Education only succeeds through relationships. In other words, relationships are the basis of all education. But how do teachers get into a relationship with the children and young people entrusted to them and what does an appropriate relationship…
Angelika Lonnemann,
May 2025
In a World Where you yan be Anything, be Loving
What does love have to do with Waldorf education? When one of my children transferred from a state school to a Waldorf school and her school experience there was completely different from before, I had the impression that teachers at the Waldorf…
Heike Birk,
Apr. 2025
Craft Lessons in the Lower School
At most Waldorf schools, formal craft lessons only begin in fifth or sixth grade. Our authors advocate an earlier start to crafting and refer to Rudolf Steiner.
Jürgen Beckmerhagen,
Dec. 2024
Students Build Small Robots for School Garden
At the Freie Waldorfschule Frankfurt/Oder, computer science teacher Sören Leonhardt shows his upper school students how they can rethink technology and the future – beyond formulas and dry programming. In a region where some young people are hopeless…
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Gabriele Ebeling,
May 2025
Walking Through Magdeburg for one Night
You don't always have to travel far away to experience something special. It can also be possible in your own neighborhood if you simply change your perspective. Our author spent seven hours walking through her hometown at night with her ninth-grade…
Heike Birk,
Apr. 2025
Craft Lessons in the Lower School
At most Waldorf schools, formal craft lessons only begin in fifth or sixth grade. Our authors advocate an earlier start to crafting and refer to Rudolf Steiner.
Jürgen Beckmerhagen,
Dec. 2024
Students Build Small Robots for School Garden
At the Freie Waldorfschule Frankfurt/Oder, computer science teacher Sören Leonhardt shows his upper school students how they can rethink technology and the future – beyond formulas and dry programming. In a region where some young people are hopeless…
Jürgen Beckmerhagen,
Sep. 2024
Music from Outer Space
Geometric shapes, AI and the creativity of young people and trained musicians – these are the components of a project in Potsdam that has resulted in a unique symphony. Classes six and seven from the Freie Waldorfschule Werder/Havel also helped…
Jürgen Beckmerhagen,
Jul. 2024
Red beams and dots of light hover in the physics lecture hall
«Do atoms really exist?» This question makes you pause and think. In an innovative project, a physicist and a chemist open up new paths to understanding atoms for students and teachers. Using modern technology, they immerse themselves in the world of…
Nina Luckner,
Jul. 2024
«Who still has an Australia?»
We share our earth with all the other people who live on it, and we only have this one. Class teacher Nina Luckner wants to convey this to her students. To do this, she combined four subjects and, among other things, built globes out of balloons and…
Luka Mescher,
Jul. 2024
More than a Workplace
Our author Luka Mescher never had any contact with people with disabilities – until he completed a social internship during eleventh grade. Luka deliberately chose a workshop for people with disabilities because he «wanted to experience something…
Angelika Lonnemann,
Jul. 2024
Self-education Based on the World
In the lower and middle school at Waldorf schools, learning takes place in the protected space of the school. Skills are tested, tried out and practiced in the safety of the classroom. In the upper school, from ninth grade onwards, students are sent…
Angelika Lonnemann,
Jul. 2024
Hands-on Learning
In the Kant anniversary year – but not only then – it is nice to remind ourselves of the questions from which Immanuel Kant developed his philosophy: «What can I know? What should I do? What can I hope for? What is man?» The questions remain…
Gunter Keller,
Jun. 2024
Waldorf education and the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
Susanne Bregenzer,
Jun. 2024
Raising Peace
Raising one's own children to be peaceful inhabitants of the world – many parents see this as an important task. Is this even possible in the face of our own countless inner demons, and in this violent and torn world to boot? On a Tuesday morning,…
Miriam Margareta Gimm,
Jun. 2024
Food is full of life
These are dangerous times for good soil: more and more land is being built on or is threatened by erosion. In Germany alone, an area the size of 90 soccer fields is sealed every day. Yet soils are the focus of many of the United Nations' explicit…
Renee Herrnkind,
Jun. 2024
What is Biodynamic Farming?
It was ridiculed for a long time, repeatedly defamed as esoteric nonsense and yet became the blueprint for organic farming, which has long been regarded worldwide as a sustainable model for healthy nutrition: the Demeter biodynamic farming method.…
Angelika Lonnemann,
Jun. 2024
Connection of School and Farming
For several years, our family was part of a car pool for Demeter milk. Once a month, we drove to the Birkmeier farm in Pöttmes by car, tapped 40 to 50 liters of milk there and brought the healthy cargo to the Waldorf school, where the other families…
Noor Khatib-Thorn,
May 2024
Love Waits Patiently at the Doors of Our Hearts
«What if I would have been on the other side?» Noor Khatib-Thorn asked herself this question as a little girl in Jerusalem. Today, she is an English teacher at the Intercultural Waldorf School in Mannheim. In her lessons, the woman with Palestinian…
Petra Mühlenbrock,
Mar. 2024
For Time is Life
Why is the class eight play part of the Waldorf curriculum? Our author, a teacher, explains based on the example of Michael Ende's Momo which she performed with her class, which processes are tiggered by such a large stage project and how they enable…
Hiltrud Kamolz,
Jan. 2024
The Interior Space Opens Up
As one of the oldest crafts in the world, basket weaving is an integral part of the ninth grade curriculum. However, tradition alone is not enough to justify its existence. In her article, our author Hiltrud Kamolz explains how adolescents come into…
Jürgen Beckmerhagen,
Dec. 2023
Window into the Soul of a Culture
Pupils at a Hamburg Waldorf school immerse themselves in Russian lessons. In doing so, they not only discover a new language, but also valuable lessons about tolerance and respect. Our author explains how learning a language can become a commitment…
Jürgen Beckmerhagen,
Nov. 2023
Rise and fall of a weather balloon
As part of his year project, 17-year-old Waldorf pupil Ilian Rosenbruch launched a weather balloon he had built himself into the stratosphere to explore the secrets of the weather. However, the launch brings more challenges than expected: official…
Jürgen Peters,
Oct. 2023
Teacher resilience
What is the state of resilience among teachers at Waldorf schools? This was the subject of a study conducted by Alanus University around ten years ago. Our author Jürgen Peters outlines the results and relates them to the current situation.
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