Indigenous People’s Day
We are on the ancestral lands of Indigenous peoples. In 2014, the Seattle City Council unanimously voted to honor and commemorate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, named on the second Monday in October to honor Native American cultures and traditions and to celebrate diverse...
The Largest Onion
Widely used to add flavor to all sorts of delicious dishes in many different cultures, the onion is thought to be one of the oldest cultivated plants. Hunter-gatherer societies probably harvested and transported onions long before our ancestors started farming them. I...
High School Places in “Why Learn Chinese” Competition Finals
As part of Mandarin Chinese classes at Seattle Waldorf High School, instructor Yi Wang (Wang Lao Shi) encourages her students to participate in an annual competition. The Washington Association for American and Chinese Education (WAACE) sponsored its tenth annual “Why...
The Great Outdoors: Classroom of Tomorrow
The environmental stewardship and gardening program at Seattle Waldorf School feeds the sense of wonder and curiosity about the natural world that is innate to human beings. Using all our senses, through observation and experimentation, children explore questions that...
Faculty Spotlight: Jeanne Stevens, High School Math Teacher
SWS math teacher Jeanne Stevens shares some images of what grade 9 math is like at our high school. Last week was the last week of ninth grade algebra at the high school for the school year. We finished earlier than usual due to the strange circumstances of the year....Page 2 of 7