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Israel: Ein Bustan—sowing seeds for hope and peace
April 28, 2025
Ein Bustan is a Jewish-Arab non-profit organization near Kiryat Tivon that works in the field of bilingual and multicultural education based on Waldorf education. With this approach, the project was the first of its kind in Israel and still offers the only multicultural kindergarten in the north of the country. The organization was founded in 2005 by Jewish and Arab parents from neighboring communities and gives the children opportunities to get to know and interact with each other from an early age. The political situation requires great adaptability on the part of the children and their parents as well as the teachers. Gal Mosenson, who is involved in the project, told us about the current situation in January 2025: More »
Temperament Considerations When Composing Communication to Parents
March 31, 2025
Many times during the school year, school leaders must thoughtfully work through challenging decisions. Once a decision is made, the time comes to share this decision with the broader community. Ideally we have confidence in the decision and the process that was used to reach it, yet we may still worry how it will be received by our school families and friends. Consider the following thoughts on temperament as you prepare communication for your community. When we honor the diversity of the temperaments, we’ve prepared a balanced communication. We trust each temperament—each set of soul qualities— to contribute to a lively, dynamic whole school community. Paying attention to these qualities in our communication is one way of honoring and benefiting from the wide variety of ways human beings work with information. More »
The Children Are Calling…
March 24, 2025
The children want to know 3 things about you as you step into the classroom as their teacher: “Who are you, teacher?” “Can I trust you?” “What is my destiny? The first question asks if the teacher knows their own identity, their own inner being and highest star. What is the character and constitution of this teacher? The second question asks what kind of relationship will exist between student and teacher. What will flow between teacher and student? Will it be warm, consistent, trustworthy? The third question asks if the teacher understands the purpose and meaning of life, if the teacher can discern the child’s inner being, and guide the child to their own highest star. More »
The New Normal: Teaching Students in Grades 5-12 Now
March 17, 2025
We can easily make a list of the terrible influences besetting us and, especially, our adolescent children and students. Social media. Screen addiction. Climate catastrophizing. Political division and polarization. The “manosphere.” Effects of the pandemic, which seem to linger longer than expected. You can add your own to the list. Although the influences are many, the solutions, I think are relatively few. The causes of anxiety or depression may be many, but addressing these doesn’t necessarily require a new prescription in each case. More »
Rudolf Steiner and the Renewal of our Cultural Life
March 3, 2025
In the context of current social, economic and political events, I have a growing sense that humanity may finally muster sufficient motivation to seriously engage in the seminal ideas on three-folding introduced by Rudolf Steiner over a century ago. How do we find equality in the ‘rights life’ in the face of seismic shifts towards totalitarianism around the world? How do we find each other as caring humans in the economic realm when income inequality and rule by millionaires seems to be the new normal? And are people even aware of the alarming loss of freedom in the cultural life today? More »
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