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WaldorfToday.com

Inspiring, imaginative and interesting.

News about Waldorf from around the world.

Since we started in 2008 we have had visitors from 160 countries giving us a global presence while maintaining our distinctly “local” emphasis in the United States and Canada. Over 1,000,000 page views for 2011 and 1,500,000 forecast for 2012.

Waldorf Today is the vision of David Kennedy.

After graduating high school at the top of his class, he eschewed an immediate entry into college and instead chose an apprenticeship as a stained glass artist. David also studied plant dyeing and tapestry with Alma Lesch, at that time one of the country’s foremost natural dyeing experts.

He became interested in teaching through working with illiterate prisoners in Kentucky and teaching them to read. David eventually trained as an ESL/EFL teacher and was responsible for teacher training at the largest language school for adults in Switzerland. He also became a successful real estate developer and entrepreneur before discovering Waldorf education at the Rudolf Steiner Institute.

David became interested in painting and working with color through those courses and found his way to Dornach, Switzerland to study painting at the Goetheanum. He was chosen to learn the craft of plant color pigment manufacture at a research laboratory in Switzerland and remains one of a handful of people in the world who can produce artist grade pigments from plant materials.

His search for a way to express his creativity in a social setting led him to Emerson College, where he studied to be a Waldorf teacher. David has taught in Waldorf schools in the United States and Europe for over twenty years. During his years in Europe he was a frequent visitor and advisor in classrooms all over the continent and developed his skill as an intuitive pedagogue. He has continued his interest in the arts and is an accomplished felter and tapestry artist as well as a coppersmith and enjoys sharing these arts with children and adults.

David is the founder and Creative Director of the Waldorf Today weekly newsletter and waldorftoday.com, the largest and most popular Waldorf website in the world. He has guided the development of the Waldorf Today group from a handful of subscribers in 2008 to over 8,500 subscribers in February 2012.

David is the editor of The Waldorf Book of Poetry, published by Living Arts Books in 2012, a critically acclaimed collection of over 425 poems by classic and modern poets that follows and supports the Waldorf curriculum. He is presently working on a series of books about Waldorf education for publication and wide distribution in 2013.