Inside SWS Blog
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....
Mental Health Awareness Month
This May, we celebrate the 72nd Mental Health Awareness Month in the United States. Mental Health Awareness Month started in 1949 to raise awareness, educate the public, and reduce the stigma of mental health. We continue to observe this month to help highlight...
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Each May we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. These 31 days acknowledge the accomplishments and contributions of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities to the United States—and the world—be it through their voices,...
Seattle Waldorf School Plastic Film Recycling Program
Look around you. How much plastic do you see? The newer concern is how much plastic surrounding us that is too small for you to see. Plastic is a problem that humans created through one main chemical, polystyrene. As a world, according to the BBC in February of 2020,...
The Extraordinary Class of 2021 Wraps Up Their Senior Year
As the last few weeks of the school year come into focus, we begin to reflect on all we have accomplished as a school. Students are back on campus and there is a sense of joy, community, and a shared recognition that we have made it through the worst of this pandemic and can look forward to the opportunities that the future provides. The class of 2021 deserves a huge amount of credit for the optimism and perseverance that prevailed throughout the high school community.
Shelters and Dwellings from Around the World
In many Waldorf grade 3 classrooms, students undertake their very first project experience, choosing and building a model of a shelter or dwelling. Grade 3 students at SWS first learned about shelters and dwellings constructed by Indigenous people in North America and...
Wetlands Water Quality Project
Written by Melissa Hiner and Slava Trifonov The Seattle Waldorf High School senior class has been working on starting a new and exciting project for the high school. We were given the task of designing and creating a chemistry project for future ninth grade students,...
Early Childhood Educators Attend WECAN Conference
I was honored to be one of the organizers for the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (WECAN) conference that took place February 5–7. The conference title was “Toward a Kinder, More Compassionate Society: Black Lives Matter in Waldorf Early Childhood...
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