CITY OF LAKES WALDORF SCHOOL

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. – Marcel Proust

Though Waldorf education was born nearly one hundred years ago, it is truly an education that uniquely meets the needs of today’s children. Every week, there is news of education research that corroborates the wisdom of Waldorf pedagogy. (One example: a recent New York Times article that focuses on the role of technology in the classroom, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all.)

While the crisis in American education has existed for over a decade, children in Waldorf classrooms are thriving here and across the globe. The Waldorf classroom provides a significantly different classroom learning experience characterized by the ideals of reverence, relationship, and freedom.

Every day in our City of Lakes Waldorf School classrooms, children are invited to think new thoughts, develop new skills, and to see with new eyes. The philosophy of Waldorf education reflects the understanding that all true learning has an inner component – an intention not only to provide academic learning but to awaken and engage the extraordinary capacities of each child. This takes place in the classroom’s social setting and is enlivened by the relationship between teacher and student and student and classmates. In the Waldorf classroom, learning comes alive through relationship, story, movement, speech, singing, drawing, painting, skill building, independent work, collaboration, assessment and review. The Waldorf curriculum is carefully designed to match the developmental stage of the child thereby bringing the student into a deep and meaningful relationship to the world.

CITY OF LAKES WALDORF SCHOOL • 2344 NICOLLET AVE. S. • MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55404 PH: 612-767-1550 • FAX: 612-767-1551