Adult Education
WWS offers a wealth of adult education seminars throughout the school year. Many are open to the public, but some are just for the WWS community. Questions? Contact the front desk at 301.229.6107.
February
25 -- Saturday, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm – in the library
Fathers Workshop
Explore raising strong, confident, and healthy children with Jack Petrash, a longtime class teacher and founder of the Nova Institute, whose mission is to build a bridge between Waldorf Education and contemporary educators. Jack leads the Nova Teacher Training with Cynthia Bennett at WWS and is the author of Waldorf Education: Education from the inside out and Covering Home: Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball. Jack is currently is our 5th grade class teacher.
28 — Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.—in the library
Raising Children Today: Harnessing the Power of Anxiety and Stress
With Ioana Razi, MD., a well-respected pediatrician known to many WWS families. Anxiety and stress often take healthful energy away from children and families. Learn to recognize these forces and their varied forms and minimize their place in our lives.
March
8 – Thursday, 8:15
High School Open Day
Come sit in on classes and experience the High School first hand. Sign up in advance and lunch will be provided at 12:30.
10 - Saturday, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (Library, various Classrooms)
Humanities Workshop through the Grades
Experience how the foundation of critical reading and writing is established through the Waldorf curriculum from the CG through High School and hear the developmental insights that make the humanities program engaging and effective. Starts in Saloma CG and moves through LS and HS. Light breakfast, snack and lunch provided. RSVP required.
13 - Tuesday, 7:30pm (Third Grade Classroom)
I See What You Mean --Speech in Education, Speech in Our Lives
The spoken word has the potential to form, confirm, and free the growing human being. During this evening of presentation and participation, we will look at how this integral component of Waldorf education cultivates the ongoing and developing conversation between the world and the individual. Helen Lubin completed her training in artistic, pedagogic, and therapeutic speech in 1985. She works with North American Waldorf Schools, Waldorf teacher education programs, and in private practice. Helen has completed the Camphill Curative Education Training and has ten years’ experience in this field, M.A. Human Development; B.S. Speech and Language Pathology; B.S. Special Educational Studies.
24 – Saturday, 10:00 am to noon -- CG classroom
Standing Your Ground – How to Create Healthy Boundaries for Young Children
Standing Your Ground Workshop for Early Childhood through grade 3 parents with Lani Hill and Jeanne Feeney, Waldorf Early Childhood educators. In this workshop, we will explore the non-verbal realm of parentchild communication. Through simple movement experiences, we will increase our awareness of what and
how we are communicating, putting together the physical expression of what it means to “stand firm” with the concept as it applies to parenting.
29 - Thursday, 7:30pm in the auditorium
How Parents can Raise a Socially Resilient Child: Breaking the cycle of Reactivity, Exclusion and Escalation -- lecture by Kim John Payne in the auditorium. Parents can be very powerful in helping their children stay calm and centered in the face of difficult social situations at school and in the neighborhood. While schools can do a lot to work through situations of teasing, parents can be very effective in giving their children some age-appropriate simple strategies to avoid being caught up in the destructive cycle of teasing and bullying.
April
10 - Tuesday, 7:30pm (Library)
17 - Tuesday, 7:30 pm (Library)
24 - Tuesday, 7:30pm (Library)
Talking to Children about Science
First of three study groups with Cynthia Bennett, co-leader of Nova Institute Teacher training and leader of Center for Anthroposophy Foundation Studies at WWS. Please sign up for all three sessions.
26 – Thursday, 7:30 (Library)
Breaking the TV Habit
12 – Thursday 8:15 – 12:30
High School Open Day
Come sit in on classes and experience the High School first hand. Sign up in advance and lunch will be provided at 12:30.
