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Why do Some Students Struggle to Learn to Read?

Rudolf Steiner said, “If you look without prejudice, every child is a riddle to be solved, particularly for educators” (2001, 123). Steiner is right—each child is a riddle, and none more challenging than the one who struggles to learn to read! There are many factors that can contribute to reading problems. More »

There’s a Better Way to Parent: Less Yelling, Less Praise

At one point in her new book, the NPR journalist Michaeleen Doucleff suggests that parents consider throwing out most of the toys they’ve bought for their kids. It’s an extreme piece of advice, but the way Doucleff frames it, it seems entirely sensible: “Kids spent two hundred thousand years without these items,” she writes. More »

Waldorf in Nepal: Shanti Sewa Griha

In 1992 Shanti Sewa Griha was begun with 13 people. Today Shanti Sewa Grisha unites several institutions that perform social work for people who have no place in society in Nepal; the poor, the lepers, handicapped people, in short: the outcasts. Over time a Waldorf school, a kindergarten, a farm, workshops, a clinic, a soup kitchen and two villages have been founded. Over 800 people have found protection, care and a task here. More »

Sages Disguised as Melon Growers

Often when I talk to parents interested in our school they ask about our alums. Even if they’re parents of three-year-olds they want to hear about “how the students integrate into high school.” Underneath this question I detect not just understandable parental concern but also an unnerving demand. These parents want me to list “success stories,” assuring them our students have made their way, without ripple, into the mainstream, joining the Rosters of the Eminent. And that thusly, should they join our school, their children will, too. I hate assuring them of such things. First, I don’t know what’s in store for any of us. Second, I came to this education—like many before me—to flee such a Procrustean outlook. Third, I know that by recounting such success stories I’m feeding, to invoke a Native American wisdom, the wrong wolf. More »

Announcing the 8th World Lyre Conference

First of all, we wish you a happy New Year 2021. May the new year bring us time to engage together with music and our fellow musicians, and focus on our mutual health, energy, and insight into everything that comes to meet us. I know that the current situation is very difficult for everybody, and we do not know what the future holds. The words of Flavia Betti, a lyre teacher from Brazil, speak deeply to me in our current world situation: “The living strength of the tone has never been more evident to me. Never has music been more needed...“ Recognizing the importance of music and especially the lyre at this time, and all the important impulses from teachers, players or lyre-builders, we continue to prepare optimistically for the World Lyre Conference and the Pedagogical Conference in 2021. More »

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