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New Waldorf Inspired Publicly Funded School in Colorado: North Fork School of Integrated Studies
November 25, 2015
In the magical little valley of the North Fork of the Gunnison River, things have been stirring. A small community of like-minded people have come together to educate their children from the inside out. Since the 1970’s, creative individuals seeking a simpler lifestyle settled this valley, bringing their intelligence and skills. Cottage industries sprang up to complement the coal mining and the fruit growing industries. Once known as the Fruit Capital of the West, the North Fork Valley today has the largest concentration of biodynamic and organic farms and vineyards in Colorado. Due to its rich offering of the arts, the valley has been recognized by the State of Colorado as a “Creative District.” A thriving community of farmers, ranchers, artists, musicians, craftspeople, and outdoor enthusiasts live nestled together, closely tied to the earth. So it comes as no surprise that in this vibrant valley, Waldorf Educational methods have taken root. More »
Routes of Sculpture: An international art contest open to all Waldorf Steiner schools in the world
November 17, 2015
A new idea was born from that training trip: to propose an international annual contest open to students between 17 and 19 years old of the Steiner Waldorf schools in the world, to that every year come to have a training trip in Tuscany. The aim of this contest is the creation of two reliefs in marble, for the outside walls of the Heart Hospital (Hospital of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery G. Pasquinucci in Massa, Tuscany, Italy). The theme of the art works is free, just thinking of an audience of children. The two groups of winners, with the teacher of their school, will be hosted free of charge for fourteen days in Massa Carrara, Tuscany, Italy: here they will create their marble relief in Studi d’Arte Cave Michelangelo (www.studidarte.com), working with the craftsmen, who will monitor the work and also teach them, in a unique experience of full immersion in this artistic workmanship. This training course is a real apprenticeship where it will be possible to carry out a project guided by a professional sculptor craftsman. The contest will be repeated annually in order to decorate, year after year, an outside wall of the Hospital, with messages from Waldorf Steiner students from Europe and beyond. The contest combines different purposes: it is a project with educational and training goals for students; it has an international character; it is inspired by the development and knowledge of the territory of Tuscany, that has always tied its identity to sculpture; finally, it is a project of solidarity, dedicated to help and support children around the world suffering from grievous congenital heart disease. The submission/registration of the schools and their students is free. More »
Delayed kindergarten enrollment dramatically reduces ADHD in children, study shows
November 11, 2015
A new research paper co-authored by Professor Thomas Dee finds strong evidence of mental health benefits in delaying kindergarten. A new study on the mental health effects of kindergarten enrollment ages found strong evidence that a one-year delay dramatically improves a child’s self-regulation abilities even into later childhood. According to the study co-authored by Stanford Graduate School of Education Professor Thomas Dee, children who started kindergarten a year later showed significantly lower levels of inattention and hyperactivity, which are jointly considered a key indicator of self regulation. The beneficial result was found to persist even at age 11. “We found that delaying kindergarten for one year reduced inattention and hyperactivity by 73 percent for an average child at age 11,” Dee said, “and it virtually eliminated the probability that an average child at that age would have an ‘abnormal,’ or higher-than-normal rating for the inattentive-hyperactive behavioral measure.” More »
Raising the screen-free child: Some parents push back against technology
November 2, 2015
For Katie Silberman, the turning point came when a house painter accidentally ripped out the TV cables. Silberman and her husband, never big TV fans, had fallen into the habit of letting their sons, Lincoln, then 7, and Haven, 4, watch television. Now, with the electronic box quiet at last, they saw a chance for a fresh start. They told the kids they were going to go outside, play more and try new things. “We literally put the TV on the curb, and that was it,” says Silberman, 44, of Providence, R.I. “We didn’t want it anymore. It wasn’t this great moral epiphany. It just went off, and we were like, ‘God! This is super-nice.’” More »
Somewhere Inbetween: Waldorf graduate to chronicle five month trek across the length of New Zealand
October 30, 2015
We’re going to walk the entire length of New Zealand. Somewhere Inbetween is a feature length documentary following the journey of four friends as we walk the length of New Zealand from Cape Reinga to Bluff for five months, covering 3,000 kilometres. Why? Adventure. Discovery. Exploration. Celebration. The challenge. Not one of us has done anything like this before; we don’t consider ourselves the ‘outdoors’ types, but when we leave our lives completely behind for 5 months to live on the road, everything is going to change. The Te Araroa trail stretches 3000 kilometers across New Zealand starting at the northernmost tip of the North Island and finishing in the Southern Lands of Bluff. During its descent down the islands, the trail passes through all of the geographically unique landscapes that makes New Zealand so diverse. From the sands of Ninety Mile beach, the archetypal farm lands of the central North, the meandering Whanganui River, the Southern Alps and the High Country, the list includes deserts and snow, mountainous forest and grassy plains, and we will see it all. More »
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