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In the Land of the Long White Cloud

Our author has been living with his family on the other side of the world for several months. He is a Waldorf teacher and is spending a sabbatical year in New Zealand. Here, he shares his experiences of life and Waldorf education.

Form drawing: Lines and Traces to the Self

In Waldorf education, form drawing is more than just an artistic exercise. Through movement, it guides the child toward an experience of order, rhythm, and space. Our author is conducting research in Brazil on form drawing in Waldorf classrooms and…

Childhood in Transition

The two authors are assistant professors at Alanus University in Mannheim. In this three-part series, they explore the characteristics of childhood today and how Waldorf schools should respond to them. Part 2.

New Approaches to Learning

This is what high school classes can look like when learning is not primarily taught and assessed through the written word: project-based work, digital tools, and diverse forms of expression open up new avenues for young people’s development.

Intensity Instead of Fragmentation

Block lessons are considered by many to be a strength of Waldorf schools—but it is usually limited to just a few subjects. Our author reports on the improvements that occur when the block teaching principle becomes a consistent organizational…

Emil Molt: Responsibility, Money, and Trust

On the occasion of the 150th birthday of Emil Molt, the founder of the first Waldorf School, our author reflects on this figure, whose vision continues to have a global impact to this day. The first Waldorf School emerged both from a business…

Ways to Experience the World

Cornelia Arnodt believes that children should reach their goals in learning to read not by going faster, but by making the process easier. She is a class teacher at the Waldorf School in Potsdam and has sought out and tested new approaches to…

Getting Ready for Transformation

The people of ancient Rome distinguished between Gallia Cis-Alpina and Trans-Alpina: the familiar Italian heartland here—with its fortified roads and well-trodden, comfortable paths that made travel predictable—and the land beyond the Alps there. In…

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Waldorf News

Online: Inner Development - Self Agenca - Soul Transformation Second Cycle

A continuation in beginning with Anthroposophy through Rudolf Steiner’s Leading Thoughts

Online: Meet & Greet Fall 2026

Sunbridge Institute’s online Meet & Greets are designed for you to get to know us: our offerings and curricula; values and principles; resources and partnerships; setting and culture; and, most importantly, our people (program directors, faculty, and…

Award for Australian Waldorf School

RedGum – The Waldorf School of Central Victoria has been named the 2026 ResourceSmart School of the Year!

Alliance Summer 2026: Virtual Professional Development

Educators worldwide are invited to join the Alliance’s Summer 2026 virtual professional development series — a multi‑day program designed to strengthen practice, spark collaboration, and offer fresh perspectives for the year ahead.

National Reconciliation Week 2026: «All In»

Australia’s Steiner schools are stepping into National Reconciliation Week with renewed commitment, student‑led initiatives, and community‑rooted learning. The 2026 theme, «All In», calls for shared responsibility and meaningful action toward First…

UNESCO welcomes Waldorf representatives in Paris

On Friday 29 May 2026, members of the European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education (ECSWE) spent a day at the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) headquarters in Paris, meeting with UNESCO officials for an…

Approaching Grade 7 and Grade 8

Taught remotely in real-time, Sunbridge’s «Approaching the Grades» Summer Series courses offer invaluable opportunities to focus entirely on your upcoming school year in five days brimming with presentations, discussions, and practical activities.

The Art of Drawing: A Waldorf Approach for Grades 1–6

This two-part online workshop introduces the Waldorf approach to drawing, focusing on four key subjects: humans, animals, nature, and buildings. Student teachers will build foundational skills using beeswax block crayons and chalk for blackboard…

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New Approaches to Learning

This is what high school classes can look like when learning is not primarily taught and assessed through the written word: project-based work, digital tools, and diverse forms of expression open up new avenues for young people’s development.

Ways to Experience the World

Cornelia Arnodt believes that children should reach their goals in learning to read not by going faster, but by making the process easier. She is a class teacher at the Waldorf School in Potsdam and has sought out and tested new approaches to…

Twelfth-grade Projects: A springboard into life?

Waldorf schools offer their own graduation certificate, which is based less on exams and more on practical experience. Central to this are the so-called year projects: In eighth grade, students explore their creativity through topics of their own…

Helping to Shape the Culture of Remembrance

Our author teaches history at the Waldorf School in Potsdam. She is convinced that developing a deeper understanding of the past requires places that engage all the senses. Acts of remembrance are also helpful. She therefore participated in two…

How an Avatar Project Became an Educational Model

Because a boy with cancer was supposed to participate in class digitally, our author developed a special approach for her first-grade class at the Saar-Pfalz Waldorf School. This experience showed her that hands-on subjects are indispensable in the…

The Middle East Conflict and Heartfelt Thinking

Ofer Sagie, a Waldorf teacher from Harduf in Israel, has German and Israeli citizenship and has been traveling around the world for years. At the Balingen Waldorf School, he met with grades ten, eleven, and twelve for discussions. Our author reports…

Looking Away is Never a Solution

Political scientist and mediator Christine Laude wrote the brochure «Bullying and Cyberbullying – Invisible Violence» for the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen (Association of Waldorf Schools Germany). She spoke to Erziehungskunst about the complexity…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

«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…

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…

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…

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…

Waldorf education and the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

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,…

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…

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.…