Posts by Julie Meade
Teaching Math in Waldorf Education

Through a multidisciplinary, multilayered approach to math, starting at the earliest ages, students learn to see the joy and beauty in numbers, approach math work from many perspectives, and eventually build up to the conceptual ideas that fuel advanced-level math in middle school. Here’s how we do it.

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Julie Meade
Experience Waldorf 2024

For decades, a Saturday morning open house has been a staple of Marin Waldorf School's enrollment events for current and prospective families. This year, we made some changes to our tried-and-true formula, renaming the event Experience Waldorf and reimagining the flow of the day. What did we do differently?

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Julie Meade
The Michaelmas Challenge

As the nights lengthen and the weather begins to cool, it is time to shine our inner light, finding the courage and strength to carry us through the darkness of the winter months.  Here are some of the ways we prepare for Michaelmas at MWS.

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Julie Meade
Michaelmas Time: Kindling the Spirit

The Michaelmas festival plants a seed in our souls, a picture of courage and strength, that can take root and grow through the autumn and winter. We can return again and again to the symbols this festival presents and benefit from their abundance all winter long.

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Julie Meade