Mission

The East Bay Waldorf School is dedicated to the education of children in a diverse community through a balanced curriculum. The teachers strive to work out of anthroposophy and the educational philosophy initiated by Rudolf Steiner.

The School Aims To:

  • Support the development of well-rounded human beings by providing a balance and interweaving of rigorous academics, arts, and physical activities;

  • Awaken genuine enthusiasm for learning in every student;

  • Enable students to become inspired, purposeful, and effective members of their community and the world, with a love of life and learning;

  • Prepare students to meet the future with confidence, competence, and initiative, allowing them to impart meaning and purpose to their lives;

  • Inspire global responsibility by fostering reverence and respect for the earth, life, and world cultures.

Waldorf Education Develops Lifelong Creativity By Cultivating:

  • Inner enthusiasm for learning;

  • Rigorous, clear thinking;

  • Respect and appreciation for the world;

  • Initiative and responsibility.

The uniqueness of the Waldorf approach lies in how the students are taught. Whether the subject is arithmetic, history, or physics, the class or subject teacher brings life to knowledge through vivid descriptions and characterizations which heighten students' curiosity and engage their feelings. The teacher leads the students into painting, music, writing, rhythm, drama, experiments, poetry, drawing or movement to stimulate their imagination and strengthen their memory.

The students focus on one subject for several weeks during an extended morning lesson (main lesson), which allows time for understanding to merge with experience. In this way, what is learned will live in the student.

Our Teachers

  • Value each student's unique talents and needs

  • Create a warm, cooperative environment.

Our Students

  • Develop a love for learning through discovery, that continues into adulthood

  • Build self-assurance by learning through experience.

Our Curriculum

  • Integrates the sciences, humanities, mathematics, music, movement and the arts to develop creative thinking.

Our Graduates

  • Are valued for their thinking ability, initiative and enthusiasm

  • Attend a diverse range of colleges and universities.

Waldorf education balances artistic, academic and practical work, educating the whole child in heart, hand and mind. Its innovative methodology and comprehensive curriculum, permeated with the arts, address the student's changing consciousness as it unfolds, stage by stage. Imagination and creativity are cultivated as well as cognitive growth and a sense of responsibility for the earth and its inhabitants.

In February 2007, the East Bay Waldorf School received full accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA) for the maximum term of six years. The school welcomes students of any color, race, gender, or sexual orientation, and all ethnic, national, cultural, social, or religious backgrounds.

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