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Waldorf Education

AWSNA is an associationof independent Waldorf schools and Waldorf teacher education intitutes. AWSNA's mission is to strengthen and support the schools and to inform the public about the benefits of Waldorf Educataion.

Why Waldorf Works is a comprehensive site about Waldorf education sponsored by the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA).

The NOVA Institute seeks to bring fresh insights into parent and teacher education through a deeper understanding of children. This understanding is based on a comprehensive view of human development, focusing on a child's need to engagein three distinct ways: actively, emotionally, and thoughtfully. When parents and teachers help children to develop good habits of hand, heart, and mind,young people become well-rounded individuals who can embrace life, love to learn, and have an abiding concern for their fellow human beings and for the Earth.

The Online Waldorf Library site has been created to provide useful information to English speaking Waldorf teachers, parents, homeschoolers, and anyone interested in Waldorf education. Our aim is to make visible all the appropriate resources on Waldorf education that are currently available and to provide information about where these resources can be purchased or obtained.

Waldorf Answers provides in depth answers about Waldorf education that parents and prospective parents may have and clears up some of the misconceptions that may exist about Waldorf education. Our intention is to provide a straightforward presentation of the facts about Waldorf education

WECAN's mission is to nurture the work with young children from pre-birth to age seven, based on an understanding of the healthy development of the child in body, soul and spirit. Our goal is to protect and nurture childhood as the foundation for a truly human culture in the future

Waldorf in the Home is written by Rahima Baldwin Dancy and Cynthia Aldinger (along with guest writers) for Waldorf parents, home schooling families and anyone interested in the LifeWays approach to parenting and childcare. They seek to answer the questions: How can home life be nourishing for every member of the family?

WaldorfWorld is a collection of many links and resources pertitent to Waldord schools: conference listings, parenting resources, children's activites, teacher training, and employment opportunities.

Local Waldorf Schools

Acorn Hill offers programs for parents and babies through kindergarten, including before and aftercare programs.

The School offers parent/child classes for infants and toddlers, a nursery and kindergarten program and grades 1-8.

The Charlottesville Waldorf School offers classes for children from toddler through grade eight.

Washingon Waldorf School has classes for parents and children from two and a half through high school.

Anthroposophy and Rudolf Steiner

Anthroposophical Society in America offers information about Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy, the philosophy which supports Waldorf Education.

The Institute provides a wide range of learning opportunities to individuals to participate in substantive, college-level courses taught by an exemplary international faculty, and informed by an anthroposophical understanding of the world.

SteinerBooks offers a wide selection of books by Rudolf Steiner and numerous other authors.