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SUMMARY:Working with Parents
DESCRIPTION:A 2-Day Workshop on Developing and Sustaining Healthy Teacher-Parent Relationships \nBehind every child stands a parent… or two\, or three\, or four! As teachers we tend to focus on our students\, sometimes forgetting the fact that our relationships with parents are every bit as important. In this workshop we will explore the different facets of the teacher-parent relationship; discuss successful ways of sharing with parents the wonderful\, challenging task of guiding their child through childhood; and do some hands-on activities to strengthen our powers of observation and compassion.\nTopics we will cover include: \n• Navigating the (often tricky) parent/friend divide\n• Running effective and rewarding parent evenings\n• Creating an atmosphere of trust and collaboration\n• Writing tactful\, informative year-end reports\n• Establishing guidelines for healthy communication\n• Preventing and managing crises \nInstructor Melissa Merkling is currently an Educational Support Coordinator and Extra Lesson teacher at the Housatonic Valley Waldorf School in Newtown\, Connecticut\, which she founded in 1989.  Melissa grew up in New York City and attended the Rudolf Steiner School from kindergarten through 12th grade.  After studying art at Bennington College and spending four years in Italy\, she worked in television\, edited a non-profit publication\, and earned a Certificate in Waldorf Early Childhood Education from Sunbridge College.  At Housatonic Valley she has held virtually every position\, from Early Childhood and Grades teacher to Administrator\, Enrollment Director\, and College and Board member.  Melissa has attended and led anthroposophical classes and study groups for over twenty years.  She currently serves as a pedagogical mentor for students in Sunbridge’s Waldorf Elementary Teacher Education program. She is also a professional editor and proofreader\, and the mother of a grown son. \nSchedule\nMonday\, June 26: Registration opens at 8am and concludes by 8:30am; Classes run 8:30am-5:30pm\nTuesday\, June 27: Classes run 8:30am-5:30pm\nAn hour is given for lunch\, with shorter breaks for morning and afternoon snacks \nFee\n$335 (includes all materials and non-refundable $45 registration fee). Discounts may apply; see registration form for details. \nVisit https://www.sunbridge.edu for more information.
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SUMMARY:Painting with Plant-Dyed Wool
DESCRIPTION:This summer\, immerse yourself in the beautiful craft of needle-felting! \nUnder the expert instruction of an established craftsperson and Waldorf educator\, you will: \n–  Explore the art and technique of needle-felting\n–  Discover how to layer the surface and manipulate color\, light\, and texture\n–  Work with the natural\, delicate beauty of plant-dyed wool\n–  Create your own wool painting\, and bring home the know-how to continue this craft on your own \nThis 2-day workshop is open to educators\, parents\, artists\, and others. No previous needle-felting experience necessary. All tools and materials will be provided. \nInstructor Judit Gilbert is an accomplished fiber artist specializing in needle-felted wool pictures depicting fairy tales\, using plant-dyed colors. Her artwork can be seen on her website\, woolpictures.com. Judit is also a teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School\, where she is currently teaching fifth grade with the class she has been with since first grade. Previously\, she taught in elementary schools in her birth country of Hungary\, and helped launch a Waldorf school in her home town. She is also a trained eurythmist who has performed with the Eurythmy Spring Valley ensemble. Judit did her undergraduate study at the Theological University of Szeged (Hungary); earned a certificate in Waldorf Education from Emerson College (UK); a Eurythmy diploma from Eurythmy Spring Valley; and a BA in Eurythmy Education from University College of Eurythmy in Oslo\, Norway. \nSchedule:\nMonday\, June 26: Registration opens at 8am and concludes by 8:30am; Classes run 8:30am-5:30pm\nTuesday\, June 27: Classes run 8:30am-5:30pm\nAn hour is given for lunch\, with shorter mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks \nFee\n$350 (includes all materials and non-refundable $30 registration fee). Discounts may apply; see registration form for details. \nVisit https://www.sunbridge.edu for more information.
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SUMMARY:Eurythmy and the Growing Child
DESCRIPTION:Open to all but especially relevant for Waldorf teachers and parents  \nEurythmy is essential in order for Waldorf Education to fully serve the child. But what is eurythmy? What does it actually do for the child? How does it fit into the Waldorf curriculum\, and what is its contribution and impact? \nIn this highly experiential workshop\, you will deepen your understanding of why this art form is so essential to the Waldorf pedagogy\, and experience for yourself elements of the eurythmy curriculum from kindergarten across the grades.  \nThrough discussion and activity you will: \n– Discover what eurythmy reveals about human development\n– Work your way through the development of the child by means of exercises appropriate to each developmental phase\n– See how the Waldorf curriculum comes to life through movement and gesture\n– Learn about the interplay between eurythmy and academic experiences\n– Acquire the language and understanding to talk about eurythmy to Waldorf parents in a valuable way\n– Work\, play\, laugh\, and have fun! \nEurythmy and the Growing Child is designed as both a stand-alone as well as a means of enhancing your experience in another Sunbridge Summer Series 2017 offering. \nInstructor Laura Radefeld teaches grades 8-12 eurythmy at Green Meadow Waldorf School (NY)\, where she has been a member of the faculty since 2010 and also sits on the Collegium and the Curriculum Development Committee. She is also on the faculty of the Eurythmy Spring Valley Pedagogical Eurythmy program. Laura is a graduate of Eurythmy Spring Valley four-year artistic eurythmy training and Emerson College Waldorf Teacher Training. \nWorkshop Schedule\nSunday\, July 2: 2:45pm registration. Workshop runs from 3-5pm \nWorkshop Fee\n$45 (including non-refundable $25 registration fee). Discounts may apply; see registration form for details. \nVisit https://www.sunbridge.edu for further information.
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SUMMARY:Literacy in the Early Grades
DESCRIPTION:Developing Your Skills to Teach Writing and Reading in Grades One-Three \nProfessional development for Waldorf teachers and homeschool parents \nExplore the genius of the Waldorf approach to literacy as together we draw on current resources and practices to inform your teaching. You’ll discover ways to integrate treasures from Orton-Gillingham and Project Read into your Waldorf classroom while learning practical\, effective\, and imaginative techniques for teaching writing and reading in the early grades. \nIncorporating speech\, spelling\, writing\, and reading\, this course covers:\n• Moving from oral to written tradition\n• Learning a structured\, yet flexible\, way to teach reading skills\n• Decoding and encoding the English language through a linguistic understanding\n• Using a multi-sensory approach for all\n• Developing scope and sequence of a literacy curriculum\n• Working with parents on literacy questions \nIn addition to grades 1-3 class teachers\, Waldorf remedial and reading specialists\, and homeschool parents working with a Waldorf curriculum\, those who would also benefit from the information imparted in this course include Waldorf kindergarten teachers\, upper grades class teachers\, world language teachers\, and pedagogical and faculty chairs.NOTE\, however\, that this is not an introductory course: Participants should have Waldorf training and/or experience as a Waldorf class teacher; exceptions will be made at the instructor’s discretion. \nInstructor Margot Amrine\, a teacher of literacy skills to children from preschool to grade 12 since 1976\, is currently fourth grade class teacher at The Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor (MI). This is Margot’s third lower school class since joining the School’s faculty in 1989; she has also chaired the School’s College and was a founding teacher of their high school. In addition to teaching\, Margot is Director of the Waldorf Institute of Southeastern Michigan and mentors Waldorf teachers in the Midwest area. Previously\, she taught at the Waldorf School of Lexington (MA) and before that\, was a kindergarten teacher in public schools in Ohio and Vermont. A member of the Anthroposophical Society since 1981\, Margot holds a BMA in Music/Art History from the University of Michigan School of Music; she has a particular interest in language arts and in working with parents\, and enjoys traveling and playing the cello. \nSchedule:\nFriday\, July 7:  6:30-7pm registration. Class runs from 7pm-9pm\nSaturday\, July 8:  Classes runs from 9am-5:30pm\, with time for breaks and lunch\nSunday\, July 9: Classes run from 9am-1pm\, with mid-morning break \nFee:\n$335 (includes all materials and non-refundable $30 registration fee). Discounts may apply; see registration form for details. \nVisit https://www.sunbridge.edu for further information.
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SUMMARY:The Urban Waldorf Kindergarten
DESCRIPTION:Meeting Young Children’s Needs in a City Setting \nIn this two-day workshop\, we will have the opportunity to come together as colleagues to explore and highlight the experience of working in an urban Waldorf early childhood setting. Through this exploration you will discover the singular advantages that urban settings bring to Waldorf early childhood education\, learn how working in an urban Waldorf kindergarten contributes to the greater Waldorf movement\, and walk away feeling even more confident in your work in using Waldorf pedagogy to meet the specific needs of urban children and families. \nAmong the topics we will consider as we identify and discuss some of the unique and formative experiences of city life\, and the challenges urban Waldorf early childhood educators face\, are: \n– Finding creative ways to use the space you have for movement activities\n– Creating stories and circle time activities\n– Celebrating nature and the cycles of the year in a city setting\n– Cultivating the will of the young child\n– Exploring how speech and sound play a role in the lives of urban children\n– Fostering a diverse community of parents \nInstructor Meggan Gill is a Lead Teacher in the Early Childhood section at the Brooklyn Waldorf School\, where she has taught Parent-and-Child and Kindergarten classes and has been actively involved on the school’s Faculty Council and Board of Trustees. Prior to joining Brooklyn in 2009\, she taught Parent-and-Child classes as well as Nursery classes at NYC’s New Amsterdam School. Meggan first learned about Waldorf Education while earning a liberal arts undergraduate degree in health sciences at Evergreen State College in Olympia\, Washington\, when she visited the Olympia Waldorf School as part of her “Arts and the Child” class. Soon thereafter\, she began working in their extended day and early childhood programs and eventually earned her certificate in Waldorf Early Childhood Education from Sunbridge.  \nSchedule:\nMonday\, July 17: Registration opens at 8am and concludes by 8:30am; Classes run 8:30am-5:30pm\nTuesday\, July 18: Classes run 8:30am-5:30pm\nAn hour is given for lunch\, with shorter breaks for morning and afternoon snacks \nFee\n$335 (includes all materials and non-refundable $30 registration fee). Discounts may apply; see registration form for details. \nVisit https://www.sunbridge.edu for more information
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SUMMARY:Painting in the Grades
DESCRIPTION:Creative Ideas and Practical Techniques for Watercolor Painting in Grades 4-8 \nProfessional development for elementary teachers and homeschool parents \nIn this hands-on workshop\, teachers will receive guidance in watercolor painting while exploring Waldorf curricula themes. \nUnder the instruction of a highly experienced class teacher and trained artist\, you will: \n• Examine elements of artistic composition\, including color and form\n• Work with various watercolor techniques\n• Practice wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry painting\n• View student examples\n• Discuss themes that work well for specific age groups\n• Learn how paintings can span the years\n• Explore methods for establishing good classroom habits and maintaining a focused mood of artistic exploration \nYou’ll leave with valuable skills\, newfound confidence\, and practical ideas to bring back to your classroom\, along with the variety of paintings you will create. \nInstructor Steve Simonak is currently fourth grade class teacher at Brooklyn Waldorf School. Prior to coming to Brooklyn in 2016\, Steve was a longtime faculty member at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School; during his 26 years there\, he served as a class and high school teacher; middle school math and arts teacher\, and Council of Teachers chairperson. He also established the Hawthorne Valley Surveying Practicum and wrote many class plays that have been performed around the country. Steve\, who holds a BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute\, received his Waldorf Teaching Certificate from the Alkion Center (for which he is a contributing faculty member) and has training in Foundation Studies from Antioch. Before becoming a Waldorf educator\, he was a teacher in New York City. Steve’s hobbies include New York State history\, medieval Christian painting\, gardening\, birdwatching\, and bird photography. \nStudents who took a Sunbridge art course with Steve in summer 2016 had this to say: \n~ Steve offered a very comprehensive art class. I appreciated the many techniques covered as well as the ongoing feedback discussions.\n~ Very knowledgeable and many examples… (with) step by step instructions\n~ Awesome! Steve was super helpful and gave great feedback and helpful suggestions.\n~ His stories of how own classroom experience also provided another level of informative discussion and insights.\n~ This course was very helpful. It moved at a pace that was conducive to our class’s broad interests and needs while still challenging us to go outside our comfort zone.\n~ I was impressed by how much I learned in such a short space of time.\n~ Thank you\, Steve! I am feeling much more confident. \nSchedule:\nMonday\, July 17: Registration opens at 8am and concludes by 8:30am; Classes run 8:30am-5:30pm\nTuesday\, July 18: Classes run 8:30am-5:30pm\nAn hour is given for lunch\, with shorter mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks \nFee:\n$335 (includes all materials and non-refundable $30 registration fee). Discounts may apply; see registration form for details. \nVisit https://www.sunbridge.edu for further information.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/painting-in-the-grades/
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SUMMARY:Collaborative Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Personalized Strategies for Becoming a More Effective Member of Your Leadership Team \nProfessional development for decision-makers—including administrators\, directors\, board and committee members\, and faculty chairs—working in Waldorf schools or other workplace settings \nNo matter what your position or title is (administrator\, department head\, board member\, faculty or section chair\, director\, administrative committee member\, college of teachers member\, staffer\, key volunteer\, etc.)\, if you participate in a planning or problem-solving process in your school\, business\, or organization\, you have leadership responsibilities. In this highly-useful course for leaders and decision-makers\, our focus is on practical work. \nThrough a process imbued with the anthroposophical understanding of the human being and successfully applied in organizations from multi-million dollar nationals to Waldorf schools\, you will learn how to improve your effectiveness as a member of your leadership team. \nEach participant is asked to bring to the course his or her own organizational question\, project\, or challenge. Using your real-life cases\, we will apply these four core models for collaborative leadership: \n– Three main leadership tasks: maintaining and creating identity / creating space for healthy\, stable relationships / assuring professional results\n– Diagnostic and planning tools: how to look at an organization as a whole and understand the dynamics of intersecting segments\n– How to create processes toward healthy decision-making\n– The balance between power and trust \nYour course takeaway will be an individualized action plan for the question\, project\, or challenge you have brought with you\, along with an understanding of the necessary skill set with which to execute it. \nBonus: Ongoing coaching support! To support you as you implement throughout the year what you have learned and practiced during the summer\, this course includes conference calls facilitated by co-instructor Jessica Heffernan Ziegler scheduled from October through May. In these one-and-a-half-hour-long coaching conversations\, you and your classmates will continue to hone your collaborative leadership skills\, addressing and supporting one another’s progress and challenges\, and so gain further insights\, understanding\, and expertise. \nInstructor Joachim Ziegler\, PhD\, has been working in the fields of Organizational Development and Human Resources Development since 1994. A partner in MIRA\, an international group of consultants\, Joachim’s current list of American and international clients encompasses the banking\, pharmaceutical\, retail\, and manufacturing sectors\, as well as anthroposophical institutions and Waldorf schools. Joachim is a member of the College of Social Sciences Section at the Goetheanum and the international Association for Social Development and has taught at the University of Muenster and at Germany’s first private university in Herdecke. He holds an MA in Adult Education and a PhD in Medical Education. \ninstructor Jessica Heffernan Ziegler has been the Executive Director of Sunbridge Institute since 2008; previously\, she taught collaboration and group dynamics in Sunbridge College’s Administration\, Biography\, and Elementary Teacher Education programs. Jessica has worked as an executive coach and organizational development consultant for Waldorf school administrators and teachers\, as well as other professionals\, since 2004\, consulting in diverse institutions and schools in both the US and Germany with a focus on governance issues\, personnel development\, and leadership skills. She was also co-founder\, administrator\, and Board member of a Waldorf school in Everswinkel\, Germany\, and is a partner in MIRA Companions for Development\, an international consulting group. Jessica\, who holds a BS in Business Management\, did biography training with Karl-Heinz Finke and is currently engaged in training with SECA International. \nStudents who took Collaborative Leadership in previous summers had this to say: \n~ The experience and dedication to the whole process that our facilitators brought to a very rich and full week was very\, very satisfying.\n~The professional material was exceptional. The clarity of the presentation was superb.\n~ There was a surprisingly beautiful balance of theory and artistic work that was completely relevant and complimentary.\n~ Excellent content\, excellent presenters.\n~ I am working in a school\, yet I know I can also apply this training to any business.\n~ I’ve been wanting to take this course for some time; I will encourage others from my school to attend.\n~ The coaching calls have been helpful on several levels… having a like-minded community of school leadership team members reflecting on the same topic at the same time deepens the quality of our leadership process (and keeps) our summer work focused and moving forward.\n~ This course exceeded my expectations! \nSchedule\nSunday\, July 23: Optional campus tour 5:30-6pm; Registration 6-7pm; First session runs from 7-9pm\nMonday\, July 24-Thursday\, July 27: Classes begin each day by 8:30am and run through 5:30pm\, with an hour for lunch and short mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks.\nFriday\, July 28: Classes begin by 8:30am and end between 12-1pm\, with a mid-morning break. \nFee\n$875 (includes all materials\, monthly coaching calls\, and non-refundable $85 registration fee). Discounts may apply; see registration form for details. \nVisit https://www.sunbridge.edu for further information.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/collaborative-leadership-2/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
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SUMMARY:50th Anniversary Weekend Conference
DESCRIPTION:Honoring the Past • Celebrating the Present • Envisioning the Future\nYou are cordially invited to Sunbridge Institute’s 50th Anniversary Weekend Conference—our 2017 Waldorf Teachers Conference and Golden Anniversary celebration rolled into one inspiring event! \nWEEKEND SCHEDULE\nFRIDAY EVENING\, NOVEMBER 10\n6-6:30pm  Registration\n6:30-7:30pm  Light Reception\n7:30-9pm  Presentation:  “People\, Programs\, and Impulses: The Waldorf Institute\, Sunbridge College\, and Sunbridge Institute Through the Decades” with Signe and Christopher Schaefer and others \nSATURDAY\, NOVEMBER 11\n7:45-8:45am  Registration & Continental Breakfast; Register for Afternoon Workshops\n9am-12:45pm  Keynote Addresses and Panel Discussion \n“Higher Education and Spirituality” with Robert McDermott\, PhD\, President Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy and Religion\, California Institute of Integral Studies; former President\, Sunbridge College Board of Trustees and Co-Founder\, The Barfield School of Sunbridge College \n“The State of Waldorf Education\,” with Linda Williams\, PhD\, Class Teacher and College Co-Chair\, Detroit Waldorf School; Waldorf Institute alumna \nKeynote Panel Discussion with\n•  Robert McDermott\n•  Linda Williams\n•  Keelah Helwig Kindergarten Teacher and Early Childhood Chair\, Waldorf School of Garden City\, and Sunbridge College alumna\n•  Susan Howard Co-Director\, Sunbridge Early Childhood Teacher Education\n•  Douglas Sloan Professor Emeritus\, Teachers College\, Columbia University\, and former Master’s Program Director\, Sunbridge College\n•  George McWilliam Core Faculty\, Sunbridge Elementary Teacher Education\n•  Moderated by Stephen Sagarin Core Faculty\, Sunbridge Elementary Teacher Education \nplus Singing with Jana Hawley Director\, Sunbridge Elementary Teacher Education\, and Sunbridge College alumna \n12:45-1:30pm Lunch \n1:30-2:00 Defined by Adversity: Reflections on Werner Glas (Founder of the Waldorf Institute and Sunbridge) by Ian Glas \n2-2:15  Dedication of the Star Magnolia tree\, planted in memory of Werner Glas \n2:30-5:30pm Workshops I and II\nIncluding\n•  Eurythmy with Brigida Baldszun\n•  Rhythmic Circle Games with Nancy Blanning\n•  Painting with Brigitte Bley-Swinston\n•  Campus Walking Tour with Leslie Burchell-Fox\n•  Eurythmy with Annelies Davidson\n•  Courage to Teach® with Cat Greenstreet\n•  History through Biography in the Middle Grades with Elizabeth Hall\n•  The Group Souls of the Honeybees and Corals: the Most Precocious in Cosmic Evolution and the Most Endangered with Gunther Hauk\n•  The Spiritualization of the Natural Sciences––THE Requisite for Further Evolution with Gunther Hauk\n•  Fiber Craft with Renate Hiller\n•  Waldorf Early Childhood in the World Today with Susan Howard\n•  Spacial Dynamics® with Jaimen McMillan\n•  Storytime with George McWilliam\n•  Speech with Barbara Renold\n•  Why Does Biography Work Matter? with Signe Schaefer\n•  Navigating Chaos: Maintaining our Balance in These Difficult Times with Christopher Schaefer\n•  Social Listening and the Inner Life of the Teacher with Ann Stahl\n•  Anthroposophy and the Western Esoteric Tradition: Bringing Alive the Mysteries with Ralph White\n•  Rudolf Steiner and the Art of Dying: The Journey of the Soul between Death and Rebirth with Ralph White \n6:30-9:30pm Festive Dinner\nFeaturing entertainment with Stephen Sagarin and an auction of community highlights \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty/event changes as needed \nCOST / REGISTRATION\n$75 for the entire weekend (including all meals and events from Friday evening’s reception through Saturday’s festive dinner). You may instead choose to register for the conference portion only (all meals and events from Friday evening through late Saturday afternoon) for a cost of $50 or Saturday’s festive dinner only for a cost of $25.\n \nREGISTER NOW. Space is limited\, and we anticipate this event will sell out. \nFull refunds will be issued for cancellations made by October 27 (refunds will be issued December 1). \nSPONSORSHIPS / ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTES\nFor our friends who would like to help make this event possible\, we are offering a wide range of sponsorship opportunities\, including five different tiers of Sponsorship Packages. We also invite you to purchase an Anniversary Tribute: a personal message placed in our event program book. Anniversary tributes may be submitted online; or\, see this form for details on submitting a tribute via mail. We also invite you to add your support for our next 50 years by making a gift to our Annual Fund. \nHOUSING\nWe are expecting a large turnout for this event and encourage you to secure your housing as soon as possible. \nCampus housing\, including Holder House dorm and local Home Stay accommodations\, is secured directly through Threefold Educational Center \nSunbridge has blocked a number of rooms at special group rates at these nearby hotels: \n\nQuality Inn at the Spring Valley Market Place (behind Target\, off Rte 59) is offering a limited number of rooms at $89. You must reserve one of these rooms by Tuesday\, October 31\, or they will be released to the public. Use code BN3YZ4 when reserving.\nCourtyard by Marriott Montvale (on Chestnut Ridge Road) is offering King bed rooms at $139.00. You must reserve one of these rooms by Friday\, October 27\, or they will be released to the public.\nCandlewood Suites in Nanuet is offering a limited number of rooms at reduced rates. To reserve one\, you must call the hotel’s front desk (845-371-4445) and ask for the Sunbridge group rate.\n\nMEALS\nA light reception on Friday evening and breakfast\, lunch\, and dinner on Saturday are included in the event. Meals will include vegetarian\, vegan\, and dairy-free options. Hot breakfast items will be available for purchase at Threefold Cafe should you wish to augment Saturday’s continental breakfast. The Cafe will also be open for Friday dinner and Sunday breakfast (pay-as-you-go). \nQUESTIONS?\nFor logistical questions about the weekend\, please contact Penelope Voss at 845-425-0055 x20 or info@sunbridge.edu. \nFor questions about sponsorships\, anniversary tributes\, or Annual Fund donations\, please contact Tanya Corrin at 845-425-0055 X11 or development@sunbridge.edu. \n\nTHANK YOU\nTo our 50th Anniversary Honorary Committee for their dedication to our institution and to the following Event Sponsors: \nGOLD SPONSORS\nAnn and Jerry Raisch\n\n\nSILVER SPONSORS\n\n\n\n\n  \nBRONZE SPONSORS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nCOPPER SPONSORS\n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\nRalph White  \nGordon Edwards \nTreeAnne McEnery  \nLinda Ogden-Wolgemuth  \nJoe Robertson\nWeintraub Project Services Company\, LLC\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/50th-anniversary-celebration/2017-11-10/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
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SUMMARY:Understanding Classroom Management
DESCRIPTION:Understanding Classroom Management: How to Create a Healthy Learning Environment is Sunbridge’s latest pedagogical leadership workshop\, relevant for administrators\, pedagogical leaders\, faculty chairs\, and grades 1-8 teachers. \nWith Karen Crandall and Anna Silber \nThis workshop has reached its capacity. Click here to be placed on a waiting list. \nUnderstanding Classroom Management addresses a topic that is integral to everyone’s teaching life. \nThrough presentation and large and small group discussions and activities\, this workshop will help you discover: \n\nYour own approach to classroom management\nThe ideal elements of a healthy learning environment\nCommon obstacles that detract from the health of your classroom\n\nYour takeaway will be an understanding of the tools needed to inform and improve your teaching and the knowledge of how to employ them in creating a healthy learning environment for you and your students. \nFacilitators \n \nKaren Crandall is a class teacher at the Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs\, NY\, where she currently teaches sixth grade. This is Karen’s third class cycle. She led her first class\, grades one through eight\, from 1993-2001 and her second class from 2007-2012.  She also sits on the school’s Collegium and chairs the Teacher Development Committee.  Karen\, who has facilitated previous Sunbridge workshops and is a member of our Summer Series faculty\, holds a BFA from Penn State University and an MSEd from Sunbridge College. \n  \n \nAnna Silber is Sunbridge Institute’s Director of Education. Anna taught as a class teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School for five years and served there as a member of the Teacher Development Committee; she also worked with the Green Meadow administrator on curriculum-related projects and offered teacher support. Anna has been a student of anthroposophy for many years and lectures about Waldorf Education throughout the country; she is also the originator and lead instructor for Sunbridge’s Waldof Weekend workshops. Anna holds a bachelor’s degree in geography from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in elementary education from Sunbridge College. \n  \nSchedule\nSaturday\, January 27: Doors open at 8:30am for check-in registration. Please arrive with enough time to register and get settled. Workshop begins promptly at 9 and runs until 5:15\, with time for breaks and lunch.  \nHousing \nCampus housing is reserved directly through Threefold Educational Center. \nCost\n \n$205 (includes snacks & lunch\, and a $25 non-refundable registration fee). Online registration closes at noon on Friday\, January 26. Space providing\, we will accept walk-in registrants on Saturday (walk-in cost is $220). This workshop has reached its capacity and walk-in registration will not be accepted.. Click here to be placed on a waiting list.  \nDiscounts \nFor every 5 attendees it registers\, a school may send a 6th attendee for free (the 6th registration cost will be rebated after the workshop takes place). Current Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program alumni receive a 15% discount; contact Penelope Voss (below) for discount codes. (Only one discount option may be applied.) \nQuestions?\nContact Penelope-Myles Voss\, Admissions and Summer Series Coordinator\, at info@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20. \nSunbridge Institute reserves the right to cancel any offering at any time. If Sunbridge cancels\, all registrants will be notified and will receive a full refund. If the registrant cancels\, he or she will receive a full refund less the non-refundable registration fee.  Sunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. \n\n  \n  \n\n\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/understanding-classroom-management/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courses and Workshops,Featured
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SUMMARY:Subject Teachers Conference: Pedagogical Foundations and Practical Aspects of Waldorf Subject Teaching
DESCRIPTION:Online registration is open until noon on Friday. We will be accepting walk-ins (walk-in fee is $290\, payable by cash\, credit card\, or check). Registration takes place starting at 6:30pm in the Main House Conference Room. (Directions here.) \nA conference for subject teachers\, faculty chairs\, teachers-in-training\, and school leadership personnel (class teachers also welcome!). \nWith Jana Hawley of Sunbridge Institute and Green Meadow Waldorf School\, Mary Lynn Hetsko of NYC’s Rudolf Steiner School\, Yolanda Navarro of the Brooklyn Waldorf School\, and Patti Regan of Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School. \nSubject teachers play an essential role in the life of every Waldorf school—and in the experience of every Waldorf student.  Bringing their gifts and expertise in their area of specialization\, subject teachers complete the breadth and depth of the Waldorf curriculum. In this inaugural conference\, subject teachers from across all subject areas will convene to learn about and share with one another the challenges and opportunities inherent to subject teaching. \nThrough presentation\, study\, and breakout group work (in discussions along pedagogical topic lines\, as well as individual subject areas)\, we will cover such issues as: \n\nWorking in multiple grades\nClassroom management\nDeveloping a subject curriculum across the grades\nKeeping your lessons fresh every year\nLesson planning and scheduling\nColleagueship and your role in the life of the school\nTraining and other resources\n\nFacilitators: \n\nJana Hawley (Music) is director of Sunbridge’s Elementary Teacher Education program and the Institute’s intensives in Elementary Music and Grades 1-12 World Language teaching. In addition to being on the Sunbridge faculty since 2002\, since 2006 Jana has also been on the faculty of Green Meadow Waldorf School\, where she has served as a class teacher\, music teacher\, and a member of the Teacher Development Committee; she currently teaches singing in Green Meadow’s Lower School and serves as Lower School Chair and a member of the Collegium Committee. Previously\, Jana spent 14 years on the faculty of the Whidbey Island Waldorf School\, teaching music and main lessons\, and has also been a visiting faculty member at several Waldorf teacher training institutes in the US\, as well as abroad. She earned her BFA in Music from Cornish College of the Arts\, Seattle\, WA\, and her MSEd in Waldorf Elementary Teacher Education from Sunbridge College. \n  \nMary Lynn Hetsko (Handwork) is the lower school handwork teacher at NYC’s Rudolf Steiner School\, where she has been a member of the faculty since 2009; she also sits on their College of Teachers. Prior to her work at the Steiner School\, she taught handwork at Green Meadow Waldorf School from 2005-2009 and has also led handwork workshops for the Fiber Craft Studio and at AWSNA conferences. Mary Lynn attended Ramapo College and holds a certificate in Applied Arts from Sunbridge College. \n  \nYolanda Navarro (World Language) mentors the Spanish language teacher at the Brooklyn Waldorf School\, a position she has held since 2015. From 2010-15 she was the school’s Spanish teacher and world language curriculum designer\, and for two years prior served as a class teacher. Since 2016\, Yolanda has also been an education consultant at Escola Waldorf Rudolf Steiner in São Paulo\, Brazil\, leading the world languages curriculum design and coaching and mentoring a team of twelve teachers from the world languages department. \n  \nPatti Regan (Eurythmy) teaches eurythmy throughout the kindergarten and grades at the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School; she also teaches music in Sunbridge’s Summer Series courses. Patti formerly taught music at Green Meadow Waldorf School. She holds a certificate from Eurythmy Spring Valley. \n  \n  \n  \nSchedule\nFriday\, April 6: Doors open at 6:30pm for check-in registration. Please arrive with enough time to register and get settled. First session begins promptly at 7 and runs until 9. \nSaturday\, April 7: Conference runs 8:30am-5pm with time for breaks and lunch\n \nHousing \nCampus housing is reserved directly through Threefold Educational Center. \nCost\n \n$275 (includes breakfast\, lunch\, and mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks on Saturday\, and a $25 non-refundable registration fee). \nDiscounts \nFor every 5 attendees it registers\, a school may send a 6th attendee for free (the 6th registration cost will be rebated after the conference takes place). Current Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program alumni receive a 15% discount; discount codes will appear on your registration form or contact Penelope Voss (below) for assistance. (Only one discount option may be applied.) \nRegistration \nOnline registration is open through noon on Friday\, April 6. If you haven’t registered online and still wish to attend\, you may do so as a walk-in registration (walk-in cost is $290). Please come to the Main House Conference Room by 6:45 pm to fill out your paperwork. \n\n  \nQuestions?\nContact Penelope-Myles Voss\, Admissions\, Alumni\, and Summer Coordinator\, at info@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20. \nSunbridge Institute reserves the right to cancel any offering at any time. If Sunbridge cancels\, all registrants will be notified and will receive a full refund. If the registrant cancels with at least 24 hours notice\, he or she will receive a full refund less the non-refundable registration fee. No refunds will be given for cancellations made less than 24 hours before the conference begins\, or for no-shows. Sunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/subject-teachers-conference-pedagogical-foundations-practical-aspects-waldorf-subject-teaching/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Grades
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SUMMARY:Movement and Singing in the Ellersiek Tradition: Finger Plays\, Circle Games\, and Music for Young Children
DESCRIPTION:Professional development for Waldorf teachers and parents and caretakers \nHand gesture and movement games are an essential part of a Waldorf early childhood teacher’s “tool box.” In this course\, participants will immerse themselves in this delightful work originated by Wilma Ellersiek specifically to meet the needs of the young child. You will learn how to effectively engage young children and provide incarnational support through developmental movement. \nChock full of experiential activities\, this course will include \n• Finger plays\n• Circle games\n• Singing in the mood of the fifth\n• Rhythmical verse \nWe will practice the gestures thoroughly to embody this potent work so that you are ready to begin sharing it. Spacial Dynamics will also be offered as a personal development practice to enhance awareness and presence. \nInstructors \nLynn St. Pierre apprenticed with noted translator and practioner of Wilma Ellersiek’s books and work\, Kundry Willwerth\, and was a member of the Ellersiek working circle in Stuttgart\, Germany. She presents this work to teachers and parents in workshops and classes throughout the US and Canada\, Europe\, Africa and India. Lynn was the founding kindergarten teacher at Applesong School in Lyons\, Colorado\, and is a Spacial Dynamics Level III candidate. \n  \nHeidi Sponheuer teaches this work at the teacher training center and the Whitsun Conference in Hannover\, Germany. A member of the original Ellersiek working circle in Hannover\, Heidi was a long-time kindergarten teacher both in the classroom and with a forest kindergarten program. She also offers private therapeutic voice and Verbeck singing lessons. \n  \n  \nSchedule\nSunday\, June 24: Optional campus tour 5:30-6pm; Registration 6-7pm; First session runs from 7-9pm\n\nMonday\, June 25\, and Tuesday\, June 26: Classes run 8:30am-5:30pm\nWednesday\, June 27: Classes run 8:30-3:30pm\nAn hour is given for lunch\, with shorter breaks for morning and afternoon snacks\n\n\n  \nFee\n$510 (includes all materials and non-refundable $45 registration fee). \nDiscount Options \n10% discounts on subsequent registrations (of equal or lesser value) will automatically appear on your registration form when selecting more than one title. (Exception: Waldorf Weekend\, which offers an $80 discount when selected as a subsequent registration.) \nCurrently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount (not to be combined with any other offering). Discount instructions will appear on the registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. (Account must be in good standing.)  \nSchools registering 11 participants for any combination of 2\,3 and/or 5-day offerings will be rebated one tuition of the least expensive offering. (Rebate to be issued in August.) \n  \n\n  \nQuestions?\nPlease contact Penelope-Myles Voss\, Admissions\, Alumni\, and Summer Coordinator\, at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \n  \n Sunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration for for refund policy.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/movement-singing-ellersiek-tradition-finger-plays-circle-games-music-young-children/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Process
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SUMMARY:Singing and Dancing Together in Grades 1-6: Musical Activities for Your Class
DESCRIPTION:Professional development for Waldorf class\, music\, and movement teachers and homeschool parents \nThis workshop will have you singing and dancing through the grades 1-6 curricula all weekend long\, as you learn and practice musical activities to bring to your students. Discover how to enliven your morning circle time with singing games that build community and coordination and bring joyful movement to your class\, and how to use these singing games to enhance your class plays and deepen the experience of your geography and history blocks. \nIn addition to American folk music\, the songs and dances you’ll learn will offer your students a breadth of diverse cultural riches\, brought to you by a teacher who has done extensive research into dances of many cultures. These activities can bring new depth and life to your teaching in a way that only music and movement can! \nTogether we’ll address child development questions and ways to work with the curriculum as you use these activities to support your work in the classroom. You’ll come away with copies of all of the songs and resources for finding more. \nRecording devices are welcome; videos will require consent of the group. \nInstructor \nJana Hawley directs Sunbridge’s Elementary Teacher Education program and specialized intensives in Elementary Music and Grades 1-12 World Language teaching. In addition to being a master adult education teacher\, Jana is a highly experienced class and music teacher and is a longtime faculty member of Green Meadow Waldorf School\, where she currently teaches lower school music and singing and is lower school chair and co-chair of the Festival Committee. Previously\, she spent 14 years on the faculty of the Whidbey Island Waldorf School\, teaching music and main lessons. \nJana has been a visiting faculty member at several Waldorf teacher training institutes in the US as well as at institutes abroad\, including China and Australia. She has led workshops in movement\, singing\, and composition\, and is a contributor to The Mood of the Fifth: A Musical Approach to Early Childhood\, a WECAN publication. Jana earned her BFA in Music from Cornish College of the Arts\, Seattle\, WA\, and her MSEd in Waldorf Elementary Teacher Education from Sunbridge College. \nSchedule\nFriday\, June 29: 6:30-7pm registration. Class runs from 7pm-9pm\nSaturday\, June 30: Classes run from 9am-5:30pm\, with time for breaks and lunch.\nSunday\, July 1: Classes run from 9am-1pm\, with mid-morning break. \nFee\n$345 as a stand alone workshop (includes all materials and non-refundable $30 registration fee). \nDiscount Options \n10% discounts on subsequent registrations (of equal or lesser value) automatically appear on your registration form when selecting more than one title. (Exception: Waldorf Weekend\, which offers an $80 discount when selected as a subsequent registration.) \nCurrently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount (not to be combined with any other offering). Discount instructions will appear on the registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. (Account must be in good standing.)  \nSchools registering 11 participants for any combination of 2\,3 and/or 5-day offerings will be rebated one tuition of the least expensive offering. (Rebate to be issued in August.) \n  \n\n  \nQuestions?\nPlease contact Penelope-Myles Voss\, Admissions\, Alumni\, and Summer Coordinator\, at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \n  \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/singing-dancing-together-grades-1-6-musical-activities-class/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Process
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SUMMARY:Watercolor Painting in the Early Grades: Creative Inspiration and Practical Techniques for Painting in Grades 1-3
DESCRIPTION:Professional development for teachers and homeschool parents \nJoin a master teacher in exploring watercolor painting in the early grades! \nIn this highly experiential\, two-day workshop you will learn\, create in\, and practice the medium of watercolor painting. We’ll explore ways to introduce the language of color into the early grades curricula as you work on seasonal themes\, curriculum inspirations\, color dialogues\, painting techniques\, and the important practical work of set up and clean up with children. \nFirst and second grade paintings will lead you into third grade creation themes\, where you will learn how to layer colors to achieve darkness\, and how to bring color into form. Through the process you’ll discover how to allow shapes and elements to emerge\, including light\, fire\, and earth; sun\, moon\, and stars; plants\, birds\, fishes\, and animals; and the human being itself. \nTakeaways will include: \n\nFacility with the primary\, secondary\, and tertiary colors\, including color dominance versus harmony\, and balancing with complimentary colors\nCreating color dialogues\nThe painting process\, including wetting the paper\, holding the brush\, brush strokes\, and set up and clean up with children\nWays to establish a mood in your classroom conducive to an artistic process\n\nYour takeaway will be the paintings you produce and a newfound knowledge and inspiration for creating watercolor painting with your class. \nInstructor \nRenate Kurth is a longtime Waldorf educator and beloved master teacher. Renate’s Waldorf teaching career began in the Toronto Waldorf School in the 1970s; in the 1980s\, she was part of the founding group—and the first administrator—of Toronto’s Waldorf Academy. In 2011 she retired after decades of serving on the faculty of Green Meadow Waldorf School where she took several classes from first through eighth grades and taught high school chemistry. Since then\, she continues to teach and lecture on Waldorf Education. Renate graduated from McGill University with a bachelor of science degree in biochemistry and genetics and did her Waldorf teacher training at Emerson College in England. \n  \nYour workshop also includes singing with Patti Regan of the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School. \n  \n\nCourse Schedule\nSunday\, July 1: Optional campus tour 5:30-6pm; Registration 6-7pm; First session runs from 7-9pm\nMonday\, July 2: Classes run 8:30-5:30pm\nTuesday\, July 3: Classes run 8:30-3:30pm\nAn hour is given for lunch\, with shorter breaks for morning and afternoon snacks\n\n  \nFee\n$360 (includes all materials and non-refundable $30 registration fee). \nDiscount Options \n10% discounts on subsequent registrations (of equal or lesser value) automatically appear on your registration form when selecting more than one title. (Exception: Waldorf Weekend\, which offers an $80 discount when selected as a subsequent registration.) \nCurrently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount (not to be combined with any other offering). Discount instructions will appear on the registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. (Account must be in good standing.)  \nSchools making 11 registrations for any combination of 2\,3 and/or 5-day offerings will be rebated one tuition of the least expensive offering. (Rebate to be issued in August.) \n  \n\n  \nQuestions?\nPlease contact Penelope-Myles Voss\, Admissions\, Alumni\, and Summer Coordinator\, at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \n  \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy. \n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/watercolor-painting-early-grades-creative-inspiration-practical-techniques-painting-grades-1-3/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Process
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SUMMARY:Techniques and Skills for Creating Beautiful Drawings in the Grades: A Focus on Chalkboards and Main Lesson Books
DESCRIPTION:Professional development for Waldorf teachers and homeschooling parents  \nIn this workshop\, grades 1-8 class and subject teachers will receive instruction in the basics of how to create beautiful chalkboard drawings and how to approach Main Lesson book drawings across the Waldorf lower and middle school curricula. Regardless of your artistic background\, you’ll leave with valuable skills\, new-found confidence\, and ideas for projects to bring to your class. \nUsing curricular themes\, we will cover: \n• Useful techniques for drawing with chalk\n• Applying perspective drawing techniques to illustrations\n• Employing geometry and proportion\n• Drawing the human figure\n• Methods for teaching children how to lay out a page \nNOTE: This workshop is taught with the expectation that you have a background in Waldorf Education.  \nNOTE: This workshop is filled. You may join our wait list for possible cancellations.\nInstructor \nSteve Simonak is currently fifth grade class teacher at Brooklyn Waldorf School. Prior to coming to Brooklyn in 2016\, Steve was a longtime faculty member at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School; during his 26 years there\, he served as a class and high school teacher\, middle school math and arts teacher\, and Council of Teachers chairperson. Before becoming a Waldorf educator\, he was a teacher in New York City. Steve who holds a BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute\, received his Waldorf Teaching Certificate from the Alkion Center (for which he is a contributing faculty member)\, and has training in Foundation Studies from Antioch. Steve’s hobbies include medieval Christian painting\, New York State history\, gardening\, birdwatching\, and bird photography. \n  \nYour workshop also includes singing with Patti Regan of the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School. \nSchedule\nFriday\, July 13: 6:30-7pm registration. Class runs from 7pm-9pm\nSaturday\, July 14: Classes run from 9am-5:30pm\, with time for breaks and lunch.\nSunday\, July 15: Classes run from 9am-1pm\, with mid-morning break.\n  \nFee\n$345 (includes all materials and non-refundable $30 registration fee). \nDiscount Options \n10% discounts on subsequent registrations (of equal or lesser value) automatically appear on your registration form when selecting more than one title. (Exception: Waldorf Weekend\, which offers an $80 discount when selected as a subsequent registration.) \nCurrently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount (not to be combined with any other offering). Discount instructions will appear on the registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. (Account must be in good standing.)  \nSchools making 11 registrations for any combination of 2\,3 and/or 5-day offerings will be rebated one tuition of the least expensive offering. (Rebate to be issued in August.) \n  \n\nNOTE: This workshop is filled. You may join our wait list for possible cancellations.\n  \nQuestions?\nPlease contact Penelope-Myles Voss\, Admissions\, Alumni and Summer Series Coordinator\, at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \n  \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy. \n 
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/techniques-skills-creating-beautiful-drawings-grades-focus-chalkboards-main-lesson-books/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Grades,Summer Series
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SUMMARY:Numeracy in the Early Grades: Strengthening Your Teaching of Arithmetic in Grades 1-3
DESCRIPTION:Professional development for Waldorf teachers and homeschool parents.\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nThis weekend workshop offers teachers guidance and practical resources to help their students establish a meaningful relationship to numbers that will serve them as a lively foundation for future learning. \n\n\nYou will discover how to incorporate movement\, imagination\, and practice as you guide your students toward fluency and confidence with the four processes. You will learn about scope and sequence in your planning\, curriculum development\, and assessment. Games\, movement\, and creative ideas will abound as this workshop opens up the world of arithmetic in the early grades for your students.\n\n\n\n  \nTakeaways will include: \n\nBroadening your understanding of how the math curriculum unfolds through the grades\nDiscovering how helpful movement activities can support your teaching and your students’ learning\nLearning to love math\, if you don’t already\nLearning how to foster confidence in your students\nKnowing how to find helpful resources for your work\n\n  \nInstructor \nJeremy Clough is class teacher for mixed grades five-six at Ashwood Waldorf School in  Rockport\, Maine. He has been with this class—a combined class by design—since they were in first grade. A member of the Ashwood faculty since 2006\, Jeremy graduated his eighth grade class there in 2011; previously\, he worked at Lake Champlain Waldorf School. Jeremy holds a BA in psychology with a Spanish minor from Northern Arizona University and earned his Waldorf certificate and master’s of education degree from Antioch New England. He loves math and movement—making numeracy in the younger grades one of his favorite subjects—and is also an avid outdoorsman\, gardener\, and traveler. \n  \nYour workshop also includes singing with Patti Regan of the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School. \n  \nWorkshop Schedule\nFriday\, July 13: 6:30-7pm registration. Class runs from 7pm-9pm\nSaturday\, July 14: Classes run from 9am-5:30pm\, with time for breaks and lunch.\nSunday\, July 15: Classes run from 9am-1pm\, with mid-morning break. \nFee\n$345 (includes all materials and non-refundable $30 registration fee). \nDiscount Options \n10% discounts on subsequent registrations (of equal or lesser value) automatically appear on your registration form when selecting more than one title. (Exception: Waldorf Weekend\, which offers an $80 discount when selected as a subsequent registration.) \nCurrently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount (not to be combined with any other offering). Discount instructions will appear on the registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. (Account must be in good standing.)  \nSchools making 11 registrations for any combination of 2\,3 and/or 5-day offerings will be rebated one tuition of the least expensive offering. (Rebate to be issued in August.) \n  \n \n  \nQuestions?\nPlease contact Penelope Voss\, Admissions\, Alumni and Summer Coordinator\, at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \n  \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/numeracy-early-grades-strengthening-teaching-arithmetic-grades-1-3/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courses and Workshops,Grades,Summer Series
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SUMMARY:Working Together in the Early Childhood Section: Addressing Practical Questions and Social Dynamics
DESCRIPTION:Professional development for early childhood educators and section heads \nIn this course we will explore the social life of the early childhood section\, illuminating important themes and common obstacles that prevent harmonious collegial work. Through group presentations\, break-out discussions\, journaling\, and film\, we will address three main areas of focus: \nLead/assistant relationships: \n\nIdentifying professional expectations\nDefining clarity of roles\nEstablishing clear communication\nExploring the unique experience of working with an assistant—or as an assistant—and the accompanying gifts and challenges\nIdeas for nurturing and strengthening the relationship\n\n  \nRacial diversity: \n\nTaking active\, concrete steps toward recognizing where you are and where you want to be\nConsciously interfacing and communicating with the school community and beyond\nEstablishing a foundation for understanding Race as a social construct in America\nCultivating an active interest in the other\n\n  \nConflict and collaboration: \n\nWorking with flexibility and creativity\nRecognizing different ways of doing the “right” thing\n\n  \nYou will come away with: \n\nClarity around supporting healthy professional relationships in the early childhood classroom\nStrategies for identifying\, communicating\, and rectifying challenging relationships\nHelpful strategies toward healthy collaboration\nIncreased confidence in being able to discuss issues of Race and Racism\n\n  \nInstructor  \nKeelah Helwig is a kindergarten teacher and early childhood chair at The Waldorf School of Garden City\, her alma mater. She is also a Garden City Board Trustee and chair of her school’s Diversity Committee. Keelah started her Waldorf early childhood career in Garden City in 2006 as kindergarten assistant in the school’s new early childhood program. A graduate of their Foundation Studies program\, she earned her bachelor of arts in drama from Spelman College and her master’s in Waldorf early childhood education from Sunbridge College. \nYour course also includes painting with Brigitte Bley-Swinston of Green Meadow Waldorf School. \n  \n\n\n\n\nCourse Schedule\nSunday\, July 15: Optional campus tour 5:30-6pm; Registration 6-7pm; First session runs from 7-9pm\n\nMonday\, July 16\, and Tuesday\, July 17: Classes run 8:30am-5:30pm\nWednesday\, July 18: Classes run 8:30-3:30pm\nAn hour is given for lunch\, with shorter breaks for morning and afternoon snacks\n\n\n  \nFee\n$510 (includes all materials and non-refundable $45 registration fee). \nDiscount Options \n10% discounts on subsequent registrations (of equal or lesser value) automatically appear on your registration form when selecting more than one title. (Exception: Waldorf Weekend\, which offers an $80 discount when selected as a subsequent registration.) \nCurrently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount (not to be combined with any other offering). Discount instructions will appear on the registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. (Account must be in good standing.)  \nSchools registering 11 participants for any combination of 2\, 3 and/or 5-day offerings will be rebated one tuition of the least expensive offering. (Rebate to be issued in August.) \n  \n\n  \nQuestions?\nPlease contact Penelope-Myles Voss\, our Admissions\, Alumni\, and Summer Coordinator\, at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \n  \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/working-together-early-childhood-section-addressing-practical-questions-social-issues/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courses and Workshops,Early Childhood,Summer Series
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SUMMARY:Managing Your Year in the Classroom: Tools and Skills for Effective Organization\, Planning\, and Communication
DESCRIPTION:Professional development for Waldorf teachers and homeschool parents \nThis highly practical workshop will give you the tools and framework you need to proactively manage your year in the classroom. Using Rudolf Steiner’s lecture “Practical Training in Thought” as a launching point\, together we will explore the executive functions and skills that enable us to effectively plan\, focus our attention\, juggle multiple tasks\, and set goals and priorities. \nYour workshop will cover methods for: \n• Planning your lessons\n• Organizing your materials\n• Making classroom notes\n• Time management\n• Effective record-keeping \nSome class time will be given to discuss communication with parents and report writing. \nYou will leave with strategies and tools that can effectively support your success in preparing for the upcoming year. \n  \nInstructor \nKelly Beekman is fourth grade class teacher at the Brooklyn Waldorf School. Prior to joining the Brooklyn faculty in 2016\, she was a member of the faculty for nine years at The Waldorf School of Garden City\, where she served as a class teacher\, mentor\, and lower school chair\, and where her ability to plan\, organize\, and maintain a high level of executive functioning skills\, within both her personal class preparation and her classes themselves\, were highly recognized. Previously\, she served as a Board trustee at The Clover Hill School and as business administrator at The Linden Hill School. A longtime student of anthroposophy\, Kelly is a member of the Anthroposophical Society and the First Class of the School of Spiritual Science and the Pedagogical Section. She completed her teacher training at Antioch New England. \nAttendees who took a previous Summer Series workshop with Kelly had this to say: \n– Kelly was knowledgeable\, organized and prepared! She graciously offered to assist us with questions beyond the days of the course. \n– Kelly explained all of the information very clearly and passionately. She was well prepared and organized. \n– Wonderful instructor! Kelly really knew the subject inside and out\, had fantastic ideas\, and was very approachable and amicable. \n– I don’t think anyone could have been as thorough and detailed as Kelly. She’s inspiring! \n\n\n\nYour workshop also includes movement with Will Crane.\n\n\n\nSchedule\nSunday\, July 22: Optional campus tour 5:30-6pm; Registration 6-7pm; First session runs from 7-9pm\nMonday\, July 23: Classes run 8:30-5:30pm\nTuesday\, July 24: Classes run 8:30-3:30pm\nAn hour is given for lunch\, with shorter breaks for morning and afternoon snacks\n\n\n\n\nFee\n$345 (includes all materials and non-refundable $30 registration fee) \nDiscount Options \n10% discounts on subsequent registrations (of equal or lesser value) automatically appear on your registration form when selecting more than one title. (Exception: Waldorf Weekend\, which offers an $80 discount when selected as a subsequent registration.) \nCurrently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount (not to be combined with any other offering). Discount instructions will appear on your registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. (Account must be in good standing.)  \nSchools registering 11 participants for any combination of 2\,3 and/or 5-day offerings will be rebated one tuition of the least expensive offering. (Rebate to be issued in August.) \n  \n\n\n  \n\nQuestions?\nPlease contact Penelope Voss\, Admissions\, Alumni & Summer Coordinator\, at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \n  \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/managing-year-classroom-tools-skills-effective-organization-planning-communication/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courses and Workshops,Grades,Summer Series
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SUMMARY:Collaborative Leadership: Personalized Strategies for Becoming a More Effective Member of Your Leadership Team
DESCRIPTION:Professional development for decision-makers—including administrators\, directors\, board and committee members\, and faculty chairs—working in Waldorf schools or other workplace settings \nNo matter what your position or title is\, if you participate in a planning or problem-solving process in your school\, business\, or organization\, you have leadership responsibilities. In this highly-useful course\, our focus is on the practical work of being a leader and decision-maker. Through a process imbued with the anthroposophical understanding of the human being\, and successfully applied in organizations from multi-million dollar nationals to Waldorf schools\, Collaborative Leadership will help you learn how to improve your effectiveness as a member of your leadership team. \nEach participant is asked to bring to the course his or her own organizational question\, project\, or challenge. Using your real-life cases\, we will apply these four core models for collaborative leadership: \n\nThree main leadership tasks: Maintaining and creating identity / Creating space for healthy\, stable relationships / Assuring professional results\nDiagnostic and planning tools: How to look at an organization as a whole and understand the dynamics of intersecting segments\nHow to create processes toward healthy decision-making\nThe balance between power and trust\n\nYour course takeaway will be an individualized action plan for the question\, project\, or challenge you have brought with you\, along with an understanding of the necessary skill set with which to execute it. \nBONUS: Ongoing coaching support! To support you as you implement throughout the year what you have learned and practiced during the summer\, this course includes conference calls facilitated by co-instructor Jessica Heffernan Ziegler scheduled from October through May. In these one-and-a-half-hour-long coaching conversations\, you and your classmates will continue to hone your collaborative leadership skills\, addressing and supporting one another’s progress and challenges—and so gain further insights\, understanding\, and expertise. \nInstructors \n Joachim Ziegler\, PhD\, has been working in the fields of Organizational Development and Human Resources Development since 1994. A partner in MIRA\, an international group of consultants\, Joachim’s current list of American and international clients encompasses the banking\, pharmaceutical\, retail\, and manufacturing sectors\, as well as anthroposophical institutions and Waldorf schools. Joachim is a member of the College of Social Sciences Section at the Goetheanum and the international Association for Social Development and has taught at the University of Muenster and at Germany’s first private university in Herdecke. He holds an MA in Adult Education and a PhD in Medical Education. \nJessica Heffernan Ziegler has been the Executive Director of Sunbridge Institute since 2008; previously\, she taught collaboration and group dynamics in Sunbridge College’s Administration\, Biography\, and Elementary Teacher Education programs. Jessica has worked as an executive coach and organizational development consultant for Waldorf school administrators and teachers\, as well as other professionals\, since 2004\, consulting in diverse institutions and schools in both the US and Germany with a focus on governance issues\, personnel development\, and leadership skills. She was also co-founder\, administrator\, and Board member of a Waldorf school in Everswinkel\, Germany\, is a partner in MIRA Companions for Development\, an international consulting group\, and sits on the boards of Manhattan’s Rudolf Steiner School and the Otto Specht School in Chestnut Ridge\, NY. Jessica\, who holds a BS in Business Management\, did biography training with Karl-Heinz Finke and is currently engaged in training with SECA International. \nYour course also include eurythmy with Sea-Anna Vasilas of Eurythmy Spring Valley. \n  \nStudents who took Collaborative Leadership in previous summers had this to say: \n~ The experience and dedication to the whole process that our facilitators brought to a very rich and full week was very\, very satisfying.\n~The professional material was exceptional. The clarity of the presentation was superb.\n~ There was a surprisingly beautiful balance of theory and artistic work that was completely relevant and complimentary.\n~ Excellent content\, excellent presenters.\n~ I am working in a school\, yet I know I can also apply this training to any business.\n~ I’ve been wanting to take this course for some time; I will encourage others from my school to attend.\n~ The coaching calls have been helpful on several levels… having a like-minded community of school leadership team members reflecting on the same topic at the same time deepens the quality of our leadership process (and keeps) our summer work focused and moving forward.\n~ This course exceeded my expectations! \nCourse Schedule\nSunday\, July 22: Optional campus tour 5:30-6pm; Registration 6-7pm; First session runs from 7-9pm\nMonday\, July 23-Thursday\, July 26: Classes begin each day  8-8:30am and run through 5:30-6pm\, with an hour for lunch and short mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks.\nFriday\, July 27: Classes begin 8-8:30am and end between 12-1pm\, with a mid-morning break. \nCourse Fee\n$905 (includes all materials\, year-long coaching sessions\, and non-refundable $75 registration fee) \nDiscount Options \n10% discounts on subsequent registrations (of equal or lesser value) automatically appear on your registration form when selecting more than one title. (Exception: Waldorf Weekend\, which offers an $80 discount when selected as a subsequent registration.) \nCurrently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount (not to be combined with any other offering). Discount instructions will appear on your registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. (Accounts must be in good standing.)  \nSchools registering 11 participants for any combination of 2 \,3 and/or 5-day offerings will be rebated one tuition of the least expensive offering. (Rebate to be issued in August.) \n\nQuestions?\nPlease contact Penelope Voss\, Admissions\, Alumni\, and Summer Coordinator\, at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \n  \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/collaborative-leadership-personalized-strategies-becoming-effective-member-leadership-team/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
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SUMMARY:Teachers Conference: Waldorf Education and the Lifelong Cultivation of Ecological Identity
DESCRIPTION:Are you looking to build a more ecologically-conscious learning community? Are you interested in developing curriculum that will strengthen your students’ sense of place\, their relationship to nature\, and their roles as stewards of the earth? Are you working with \n\nSustainability\nEcology\nEnvironmental studies\nLand stewardship\nFarming\nGardening\n\nAnd wondering how these topics can best express themselves in your curriculum and in the daily experiences of students\, teachers\, and the broader school community? \nUnderstanding our relationship to the natural world and our connection with it—and learning how to foster this understanding within our students and our communities—is the subject of Sunbridge’s 2018 Teachers Conference. Designed for early childhood\, elementary\, and high school educators\, this highly practical conference will help you take up these themes in the context of your own school setting and inspire new vision for your work with children and adolescents. Through developing and sharing age-appropriate curriculum and approaches that deepen one’s experience with nature and encourage and support a child’s sense of place and interconnectedness with the world\, you will return to your classroom and your school inspired and equipped! \n\nPresenters \nColeen O’Connell\, MS (Keynote Addresses and Workshop Facilitation). Co-founder of the Ecological Teaching and Learning MS Program at Lesley University in Cambridge\, MA\, an innovative master’s degree program for educators infusing their teaching practice with ecological principles\, systems thinking\, reflective practice\, and Action Research\, and Lesley University faculty member. Coleen’s mission as an educator for the past 30 years has been to bring people into relationship with the natural world with an emphasis on our interconnectedness through systems thinking. Coleen’s teaching and scholarship are focused on expanding the definition and underlying notions of environmental education to be that of ecological teaching and learning integrated across the curriculum. Focused on changing the code for education so that it becomes the practice of educating for ecological global citizenship\, she weaves the concepts of sustainability\, systems thinking\, deep ecology\, intentional communities\, and traditional indigenous knowledge into her teaching practice. Coleen lectures and presents workshops throughout New England and has served on the boards of the Maine Environmental Education Association\, which in 2013 awarded her the Eberhard Thiele Environmental Educator Award\, and the New England Environmental Education Alliance. She earned her BS degree in early childhood education at South Dakota State University  and her MS in environmental education from Lesley University. \nRev. Patrick Kennedy (Opening Talk). Director\, The Seminary of the Christian Community\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY. A graduate of Kimberton Waldorf School\, Patrick attended the seminary in Stuttgart and was consecrated into the priesthood in 2006. From 2007 to 2015 he served as the resident priest in the Washington DC area congregation and now works both as a director of the Seminary and in the local Chestnut Ridge congregation. Prior to preparing for the priesthood\, Patrick studied and worked in the field of early childhood education and as a Waldorf class teacher. He received his bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from the University of California. Santa Cruz. \nCalisa Tucker\, MS (Curriculum Panelist). Class teacher (on sabbatical)\, the Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor. Calisa has been a class teacher at Ann Arbor since 2002 when she joined her first class in second grade\, taking them through eighth grade in 2010 before beginning her second round. Prior to becoming a Waldorf teacher\, Calisa worked on an organizational learning and lean manufacturing internal consulting team for Ford Motor Company. Lessons learned in the automotive industry inspired her to seek out an education that nurtured systems thinking\, creativity\, and a love of learning. A faculty member of Sunbridge’s “Approaching the Grades” Summer Series courses\, Calisa received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan and did her teacher training at the Waldorf Institute of Southeast Michigan. \nJeannine Davis\, MS (Curriculum Panelist). Horticulture and gardening teacher\, The Waldorf School of Garden City. Jeannine created\, implemented\, and teaches the WSGC’s organic gardening curriculum for grades one through eight.  This program includes renewable energy and sustainable agriculture practices\, cooking\, canning\, fermenting\, entomology\, botany\, and making medicinal salves from weeds found on campus.  She organizes her school-wide Earth Day event each spring\, where students\, faculty and staff focus on planting for a bio-diverse species and care for the school grounds; manages the school’s solar powered greenhouse\, organic food\, herb\, and flower gardens and composting program; supports a farm to table cafeteria; recently co-piloted an eighth grade sustainability and science program; and is also a key figure in her school’s coming-of-age experience to honor the transition and challenges of entering adolescence. Last spring\, she was a featured panelist at a conference at Hofstra University\, speaking on “Importance of Local Agriculture to Health and Education.” Jeannine graduated from American University with a BA in public relations\, earned her MS in Waldorf Education from Sunbridge College\, and a certificate in Biodynamic Agriculture. \nRobin Gucker (Curriculum Panelist). Longtime Waldorf early childhood educator\, outdoor educator\, and farm and forest kindergarten teacher. Robin most recently served as faculty chair and teacher of the farm and forest-based outdoor kindergarten program at Lakeside School at Black Kettle Farm in Essex\, NY. Her eighteen years of teaching experience in Waldorf settings also include nine years teaching at Lake Champlain Waldorf School. Robin was a founding parent at the Northern Lights School\, a Waldorf-inspired school now located in Saranac Lake\, NY\, and\, prior to her work in Waldorf Education\, taught science and outdoor education at North Country Camps\, Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center\, and North Country School. She has a BA in biology and art from the University of Vermont and a certificate in early childhood education from Sunbridge College\, and completed her training in Spacial Dynamics®. \n  \nConference schedule \nFriday evening\, November 30: Doors open at 6:30pm for check-in registration. Conference begins at 7pm and runs until 9pm. \nSaturday\, December 1: Conference runs 9am-6pm with time for breaks and lunch\n \nCost \n$285 (includes Saturday breakfast\, lunch\, and mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks\, and a $25 non-refundable registration fee). \nDiscounts \nFor every 5 attendees it registers\, a school may send a 6th attendee for free (the 6th registration cost will be rebated after the conference takes place). Current Sunbridge program students and Sunbridge program alumni receive a discounted price; discount code will appear on your registration form. (Only one discount option may be applied.) \nHousing \nCampus housing is reserved directly through Threefold Educational Center. \nRegistration \nOnline registration is open through noon on Friday\, November 30. If you haven’t registered online and still wish to attend\, you may do so as a walk-in registration providing space is available. Walk-in cost is $300. \n\nQuestions?\nContact Admissions\, Alumni\, and Summer Coordinator Penelope-Myles Voss at info@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20. \nSunbridge Institute reserves the right to cancel any offering at any time. If Sunbridge cancels\, all registrants will be notified and will receive a full refund. If the registrant cancels\, he or she will receive a full refund less the non-refundable registration fee.  Sunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/annual-teachers-conference/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Featured
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SUMMARY:Deepening Your Work as An Effective Mentor and Evaluator
DESCRIPTION:Guidance For Those Working with Teachers From Early Childhood Through High School\nwith Louise deForest \nA professional development seminar for experienced Waldorf educators who are either already mentoring teachers or who wish to move into a mentoring role \n“All real living is meeting\,” Austrian philosopher Martin Buber once famously said. But how can we meet the other in such a way that all our experiences and expertise can enhance the others’ capacities and abilities? How do we build sufficient interest in the other to perceive and reflect back in a meaningful way? And how do we make our years of teaching useful when guiding others? \nThis seminar\, designed for mentors working with teachers across all age and grade levels\, is comprised of two on-site weekends and an interim assignment\, plus follow-up coaching calls. Through presentation\, discussion\, group exercises\, and role-playing\, you will learn: \n\nHow to be responsive to the environment you are working with while maintaining core principles\nHow to address diversity of all kinds (gender\, racial\, cultural\, other) to create a more inviting classroom\nStrategies and techniques for building your skills as an evaluator and mentor\nSteps for developing a mentoring program in your school\, from paper to practice\n\nYour seminar will include: \n\nExploring the role of inner development in your work as a mentor\nExamining your own mentoring style\nUnderstanding the effect mentoring has on the mentee’s class—and on the well-being of your school\n\nYou will benefit from: \n\nDiscussions on mentoring section-specific teachers\, led by master early childhood and elementary educators\nArtistic activities\nCoaching calls in the spring and the following fall to track your progress as a mentor and help address any issues that may arise\n\nYou will come away with both a solid foundation for your own mentoring practice and tools to help your school build an effective and supportive mentoring program. \n  \nInstructor \nAn international lecturer\, Waldorf early childhood teacher\, teacher trainer\, evaluator\, and mentor\, Louise deForest travels extensively throughout the US\, Canada\, Mexico\, Central America\, and Europe\, supporting teachers\, parents\, and schools. Currently serving as teacher mentor at the New Amsterdam School\, Louise’s professional history includes serving as pedagogical director of the early childhood program at the Rudolf Steiner School\, kindergarten teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School\, and co-founder of a Waldorf school in Vermont. She is also board chair of WECAN (Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America) and one of two North American representatives to IASWECE (the International Association of Steiner/Waldorf Early Childhood Education). \nSchedule \nThis seminar has been designed to take place in two parts\, occurring over weekends in late January and late March. Participants register for both parts at once; registering for the January or March weekend alone is not possible. \nDates & Times  \nJanuary 24 (Thursday) 7pm-9pm\nJanuary 25 (Friday) 9am-5:30pm\nJanuary 26 (Saturday) 9am-5:30pm\nMarch 28 (Thursday) 7pm-9pm\nMarch 29 (Friday) 9am-5:30pm\nMarch 30 (Saturday) 9am-5:30pm \nCost/Discounts \n$945 total for both parts. Includes breakfast\, lunch\, and mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks on Fridays and Saturdays\, $85 non-refundable registration fee\, and follow-up coaching calls. \nSchools sending more than one attendee will be rebated $125 off the cost of each additional attendee (rebate to be issued after the seminar takes place). Sunbridge program alumni will receive a discounted price (final cost will be reflected on your registration form after you enter the code provided.) NOTE: Discounts may not be combined.\n \nOnline registration runs through 11am on Thursday\, January 24. If you haven’t registered online by 11:00 on Thursday morning\, January 24\, and still wish to attend\, you may register as a walk-in. Walk-in cost is $960. \n  \n\n  \nQuestions?\nContact Penelope-Myles Voss\, admissions\, alumni\, and summer coordinator\, at info@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20. \nSunbridge Institute reserves the right to cancel any offering at any time. If Sunbridge cancels\, all registrants will be notified and will receive a full refund. If the registrant cancels\, he or she will receive a full refund less the non-refundable registration fee.  Sunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/deepening-your-work-as-an-effective-mentor-and-evaluator/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
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SUMMARY:Project Management: A Guide to Planning\, Executing\, and Evaluating Projects or Initiatives of Any Size or Scope
DESCRIPTION:A collaborative leadership workshop for anyone tasked with leading projects or initiatives and trying to ensure high performance collaboration.  \nProject management is a well-known tool of the business world and part of a management system that every business or organization needs in order to bring ideas into reality. Good project management defines whether or not you will be successful in your work. \nThe tools of project management are simple—the difficulty lies in implementing them into the culture of the organization. \n \nSunbridge’s latest collaborative leadership workshop is a crash course in understanding the project management mindset and the process for successfully carrying a project through from beginning to end. \nIn this very down-to-earth workshop\, we will look at and touch upon: \n• The seven most important tools inherent in project management (with time given to practice some of them)\n• The role of direction\, alignment\, and commitment in the project management process\n• How to instill a project management mindset and skills in both the practical habits of an organization as well as its social and ideal realms\n• The project management steps essential for bringing ideas into fruition and completion \nYou are encouraged to bring with you a project or initiative that you are currently involved in or would like to bring to your community\, to work on here. \nFacilitators \n Joachim Ziegler\, PhD\, has been working in the fields of organizational development and human resources development since 1994. A partner in MIRA Companions for Development\, an international consulting group\, Joachim’s current list of American and international clients encompasses the banking\, pharmaceutical\, retail\, and manufacturing sectors\, as well as anthroposophical institutions and Waldorf schools. Joachim is a member of the College of Social Sciences Section at the Goetheanum and the international Association for Social Development and has taught at the University of Muenster and at Germany’s first private university in Herdecke. He holds an MA in adult education and a PhD in medical education. \nJessica Heffernan Ziegler Jessica has been the executive director of Sunbridge Institute since 2008; previously\, she taught collaboration and group dynamics in Sunbridge College’s Administration\, Biography\, and Elementary Teacher Education programs. Jessica has worked as an executive coach and organizational development consultant for Waldorf school administrators and teachers\, as well as other professionals\, in diverse institutions and schools in both the US and Germany. She served as the first administrator and as a board member at a Waldorf school she co-founded in Everswinkel\, Germany; is a partner in MIRA Companions for Development\, an international consulting group; and sits on the boards of Manhattan’s Rudolf Steiner School and the Otto Specht School in Chestnut Ridge\, NY. Jessica who holds a BS in business management\, did her biography training with Karl-Heinz Finke and her executive coach training with SECA International. Her professional focus on leadership skills\, governance issues\, and personnel development are utilized in both her executive director position and in her work as co-instructor of Sunbridge’s Collaborative Leadership summer course and related workshops. \nArtistic faculty TBA. \n  \nThose who took previous collaborative leadership offerings with Joachim and Jessica had this to say: \n~ This exceeded my expectations!\n~ The experience and dedication to the whole process that our facilitators brought to a very rich and full week was very\, very satisfying.\n~The professional material was exceptional. The clarity of the presentation was superb.\n~ Excellent content\, excellent presenters\n~ The quality was incredibly rich and practical\n~ I am working in a school\, yet I know I can also apply this training to any business.\n~ It’s always a pleasure to come to these workshops. Many thanks! \n  \nSchedule \nFriday\, April 26: Doors open at 6:30pm for check-in registration. Please arrive with enough time to register and get settled. Workshop begins promptly at 7pm and runs until 8:30pm. \nSaturday\, April 27: Workshop runs 9am-5:30pm\, with times for breaks and lunch \nCost  \n$285 via online registration (includes Saturday breakfast\, snacks\, and lunch\, and $25 non-refundable registration fee). Online registration is available through noon on Friday\, April 26. If you haven’t registered in advance and wish to attend\, walk-in registrations will be accepted space permitting; walk-in cost is $300. Check here before arriving for walk-in registration to make sure spaces remain. \nDiscount Options \nBecause it is beneficial for several members of a school to attend this workshop together\, schools registering 4 attendees will receive a rebate for the cost of the 4th registration (rebates to be issued once the workshop has taken place). Please contact registrar Tamara Photiadis at registrar@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x16 for instructions. \nCurrent Sunbridge program students receive $80 off and Sunbridge program graduates receive $40 off the workshop cost. Accounts must be in good standing. A discount code will appear on your registration form when you answer questions about your educational background. \nDiscounts may not be combined. \n  \n\n  \nQuestions? \nContact Penelope-Myles Voss\, admissions\, alumni\, and summer coordinator\, at info@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20. \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/project-management-a-guide-to-planning-executing-and-evaluating-projects-or-initiatives-of-any-size-or-scope-2/
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SUMMARY:Literacy in the Early Grades: Developing Your Skills to Teach Writing and Reading in Grades 1-3
DESCRIPTION:For Waldorf teachers and homeschool parents \nExplore the genius of the Waldorf approach to literacy as together we draw on current resources and practices to inform your teaching. You’ll discover ways to integrate treasures from Orton-Gillingham and Project Read into your Waldorf classroom while learning practical\, effective\, and imaginative techniques for teaching writing and reading in the early grades. \nIncorporating speech\, spelling\, writing\, and reading\, this course covers: \n\nMoving from oral to written tradition\nLearning a structured\, yet flexible\, way to teach reading skills\nDecoding and encoding the English language through a linguistic understanding\nUsing a multi-sensory approach for all\nDeveloping scope and sequence of a literacy curriculum\nWorking with parents on literacy questions\n\nIn addition to grades 1-3 class teachers\, Waldorf remedial and reading specialists\, and homeschool parents working with a Waldorf curriculum\, those who would also benefit from the information imparted in this course include Waldorf kindergarten teachers\, upper grades class teachers\, world language teachers\, and pedagogical and faculty chairs. PLEASE NOTE: This is not an introductory course. Participants should have Waldorf training and/or experience as a Waldorf class teacher; exceptions will be made at the instructor’s discretion. \nLead Instructor \nMargot Amrine teaches at the Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor\, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1989 and has shepherded several lower school classes. She has also chaired her college of teachers and is a founding teacher of the high school\, where she currently teaches history and humanities. A teacher of literacy skills to children from preschool to grade 12 since 1976\, Margot was the director of the Waldorf Institute of Southeastern Michigan and mentors Waldorf teachers in the midwest area. She holds a BMA in music and art history from the University of Michigan School of Music and has been a member of the Anthroposophical Society since 1981.  Margot has a particular interest in language arts and in working with parents\, and enjoys traveling and playing the cello. \nArtistic faculty TBA \n  \nStudents who took this workshop previously with Margot had this to say: \n~ Margot is a great presenter with wonderful knowledge to share.\n~ A master of masters.\n~ She knows everything about teaching grammar/writing/reading.\n~ Margot had a complete grasp on the subject and had a breadth of experience to share. She made good time for questions and created an engaging workshop.\n~ Ms. Amrine is a wonderful teacher and she inspires confidence to try new things.\n~ Margot is an excellent teacher of teachers. She is knowledgeable\, encouraging and funny!\n~ The highlight was definitely the knowledge and energy of the instructor. The clean picture of Language Arts instruction was so helpful\, and the way the instructors work together mainstream elements with Waldorf pedagogy was fantastic.\n~ The entire course was excellent and just right. The topics covered\, time allotted and Margot’s ability to stay on track (while also including levity here and there) were right on and what I needed!\n~ This was likely the most impactful educational experience I’ve had as an adult.\n~ I am going home brim full of ideas and excitement for the coming year. \n  \nSchedule \nFriday\, June 28:  Check-in registration takes place 6:30-7pm. Orientation and your first class runs 7-9pm.\nSaturday\, June 29: Classes begin at 9am and run through 5:30\, with time for lunch and short mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks.\nSunday\, June 30: Classes begin at 9am and end at 1pm\, with a mid-morning break. \n  \nCost\n$360 includes all materials and non-refundable $30 registration fee \n  \nThree Discount Options (Choose One! Discounts may not be combined.)  \n1. Friends and Family (Personal Discount):  Currently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount off one or more registrations. Discount instructions will appear on your registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. Accounts must be in good standing. \n2. Take Two and Save (Personal Discount):  10% discounts on subsequent registrations (of equal or lesser value) will automatically appear on your registration form when selecting more than one title. (Exception: Waldorf Weekend\, which offers an $85 discount when selected as a subsequent registration.) \n3. Send More/Save More (School Discount):  Schools paying for five or more registrations will receive discounts in increasing amounts.\nMake 5 registrations\, receive 5% off the total cost\nMake 6 registrations\, receive 6% off the total cost\nMake 7 registrations\, receive 7% off the total cost\nMake 8 registrations\, receive 8% off the total cost\nMake 9 registrations\, receive 9% off the total cost\nMake 10 or more registrations\, receive 10% off the total cost\nNOTE: When choosing this option\, please be sure to check off “Invoice my School” on your registration form. To qualify for the Send More/Save More discount\, registrations must be made by July 14. \n\n  \nQuestions?\nPlease contact our summer office at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \n  \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy. \n 
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/literacy-in-the-early-grades-developing-your-skills-to-teach-writing-and-reading-in-grades-1-3/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Early Childhood,Featured,Grades,Summer Series
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SUMMARY:Chalkboard Drawing for Class Teachers: Skill-Building and Inspiration for Teachers of Grades 1-8
DESCRIPTION:This workshop has been cancelled.\nFor Waldorf teachers and homeschool parents and anyone interested in the medium of chalk drawing \nIn this highly practical workshop\, teachers of grades 1-8 will receive instruction in the basics of how to create beautiful chalkboard drawings. Regardless of your artistic background\, you’ll leave with valuable skills\, new-found confidence\, and ideas for your coming year’s drawings. \nYou will learn: \n\nTechniques for drawing with chalk\nHow to approach chalkboard illustrations across the Waldorf lower and middle school curricula\nWays to model animal and human forms through the grades\nSeasonal use of color\n\nYou are encouraged to bring your own pictures and ideas of what you want to focus on in the coming year\, and get guidance and practice for how to bring your ideas into reality. \n  \nLead Instructor \nBrigitte Bley-Swinston has been teaching fine arts at Green Meadow Waldorf School for the past seven years. Previously\, she taught at the Rudolf Steiner School in Manhattan and\, from 1992-2004\, served as the resident art teacher for all Sunbridge College programs. She also frequently taught courses at the Rudolf Steiner Institute and co-directed the Foundation Studies program at the Brooklyn Waldorf School. Brigitte earned her BA in art education in Berlin\, Germany\, her MS in Waldorf teacher education from Sunbridge College\, and also studied at the Art Students League\, The National Academy of Design\, and the New York Botanical Garden \nStudents who studied with Brigitte in Summer Series 2018 had this to say: \n~ Brigitte was able to bring out my inner artist I didn’t know I had.\n~ Well-prepared and knowledgeable.\n~ Brigitte was just wonderful.\n~ Brigitte was a warm\, inviting teacher who provided clear guidance. \n~ Brigitte was the perfect art teacher. I always felt “seen” and respected\, even when the art challenged my capacities.\n~Brigitte has a very calm\, easy way with student anxieties and feelings of inadequacy/frustration with art\, and also met the experienced/advanced students in a meaningful way.  \n~ I loved everything about the class. \n  \nYour workshop also includes eurythmy with Sea-Anna Vasilas of Eurythmy Spring Valley. \n  \nSchedule \nFriday\, June 28:  Check-in registration takes place 6:30-7pm. First class runs 7-9pm.\nSaturday\, June 29: Classes begin at 9am and run through 5:30\, with time for lunch and short mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks.\nSunday\, June 30: Classes begin at 9am and end at 1pm\, with a mid-morning break. \n  \nCost\n$360 includes all materials and non-refundable $30 registration fee \n  \nDiscount Options \nThree Discount Options (Choose One! Discounts may not be combined.)  \n1. Friends and Family (Personal Discount):  Currently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount off one or more registrations. Discount instructions will appear on your registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. Accounts must be in good standing. \n2. Take Two and Save (Personal Discount):  10% discounts on subsequent registrations (of equal or lesser value) will automatically appear on your registration form when selecting more than one title. (Exception: Waldorf Weekend\, which offers an $85 discount when selected as a subsequent registration.) \n3. Send More/Save More (School Discount):  Schools paying for five or more registrations will receive discounts in increasing amounts.\nMake 5 registrations\, receive 5% off the total cost\nMake 6 registrations\, receive 6% off the total cost\nMake 7 registrations\, receive 7% off the total cost\nMake 8 registrations\, receive 8% off the total cost\nMake 9 registrations\, receive 9% off the total cost\nMake 10 or more registrations\, receive 10% off the total cost\nNOTE: When choosing this option\, please be sure to check off “Invoice my School” on your registration form. To qualify for the Send More/Save More discount\, registrations must be made by July 14. \n  \nQuestions?\nPlease contact our summer office at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \n  \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy. \n 
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SUMMARY:The Foundational Teachers' Course of 2019: Experiencing Rudolf Steiner’s Seminal Three-Part Lecture Series in the Context of 21st Century North America
DESCRIPTION:This summer\, to mark the historic occasion of Waldorf Education’s 100th anniversary\, Sunbridge Institute’s Waldorf Elementary Teacher Education program will be recreating Rudolf Steiner’s very first Waldorf teacher education course. \nThe Foundational Teachers’ Course of 2019: Experiencing Rudolf Steiner’s Seminal Three-Part Lecture Series in the Context of 21st Century North America will bring together Sunbridge faculty\, students\, and auditing program graduates for a festive fifteen days of lecture\, discussion\, and artistic activity (following the same schedule Rudolf Steiner and his original teacher education students—the first cohort of Waldorf educators—experienced in August-September 1919). From jointly reading and discussing his three main texts (Foundations of Human Experience\, Practical Advice to Teachers\, and Discussions with Teachers)\, to engaging in eurythmy\, singing\, speech\, painting and drawing\, we will celebrate a momentous century of Waldorf Education\, exploring Steiner’s thoughts and methods and considering them through the lens of our current time and place. \nIn addition to comprising the summer 2019 curriculum for our currently enrolled elementary program students\, this unique offering is also open to graduates of any full program offered by Sunbridge Institute or Sunbridge College who wish to participate by registering and paying an auditing fee. (Please note: Our specialized subject intensives do not qualify as full programs.) \n  \nFaculty \nFaculty will include: \nJana Hawley\, MSEd\nGeorge McWilliam\nStephen Sagarin\, PhD\nElizabeth Hall\, MA \nplus artistic specialists \n  \nSchedule \nMonday\, July 8-Friday\, July 12: 8am-6pm\nMonday\, July 15-Friday\, July 19: 8am-6pm\nMonday\, July 22-Friday\, July 26:  8am-6pm \n  \nCost / Registration \nThis course is included in the regular tuition paid by Sunbridge Elementary program students. Sunbridge program graduates pay a $1\,500 auditing fee to attend. \n  \n\n  \nQuestions? \nTo confirm your eligibility for attending as an auditing student\, or for more information about this opportunity\, please contact: \nLinda Ogden-Wolgemuth\, Director of Education and Advancement\nlogden@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x10 \n  \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/the-foundational-teachers-course-of-1919-experiencing-rudolf-steiners-seminal-three-part-lecture-series-in-the-context-of-21st-century-north-america/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courses and Workshops,Early Childhood,Featured,Grades,High School,Program Intensives,Programs
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SUMMARY:The Power of Traditional Country Dancing in Grades 1-8: How Dancing Together Can Enhance Learning\, Enrich Your Teaching\, and Bring Social Health to Your Classroom
DESCRIPTION:For teachers and homeschool parents \nLearn how to harness the power of traditional country dancing to benefit your teaching and your students! \nDancing can provide children with developmentally appropriate opportunities to work on basic coordination\, left-right discrimination\, and the foundation senses of rhythm\, self-movement\, and balance\, all of which are necessary for healthy sensory-motor development. In groups\, dancing fosters awareness of symmetry\, patterns\, and geometrical forms; facilitates awareness of others; and enhances social relationships.  Most importantly\, dancing brings joy! \nIn this experiential workshop\, through presentation\, articles and reference materials\, and movement sessions\, you will: \n\nReceive an overview of traditional social dancing through the centuries\nDiscover how dance positively affects learning and social health\nExplore how to determine which dances and music to bring to your group\nDiscuss specific dances that are geared to each grade\nPractice ice breakers and warm-ups\nPractice calling dances\, and learn about dance courtesies and etiquette\n\nYour takeaways will include handouts with a sample of dances for each grade\, resources for age- and grade-appropriate dances\, and ideas for curriculum integration. Please Note: While the focus of this workshop is on grades 1-6\, grades 7 and 8 dances will also be touched upon and those teachers will also benefit from the information imparted. \n  \nInstructor \nPatricia Campbell is traditional country dance teacher at Housatonic Valley Waldorf School\, where she works with students in grades one through eight. A lifelong dancer\, and a dance caller for 30 years\, Patricia began her dance involvement at HVWS in 2000\, when she “called” for a Harvest Dinner & Dance fundraiser for the third grade trip. In the years since\, she created the Shining River Morris Team and took on more dance projects including leading the Maypole dancing\, dances for the school’s annual Halloween event\, Morris dances\, and a sword dance performed by the HVWS Shining River Morris & Sword Team. Patricia’s repertoire of traditional country dancing encompasses a wide range of dance genres\, including historical dance (Medieval\, Renaissance\, Revolutionary War\, Civil War\, etc.)\, singing games\, international folk dances\, contra dances\, square dances\, and English country dances. A caller and a member of the Board and Programming Committee for the NOMAD (Northeast Music\, Art and Dance) Festival for most of its 20-year run\, Patricia also leads workshops and residencies\, along with dance programs for numerous community groups. Her advice is always for anyone to “get a group of people together and have a dance!” \nYour workshop also includes singing with Patti Regan of Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School. \n  \nStudents who took this workshop previously had this to say: \n– Patricia was a wealth of information and provided a multitude of useful songs and dances for grades 1-6 and beyond. \n– This course was helpful for learning new rhythms and different movements to use in my classes.\n– The class was very satisfying. It provided lots of dances that I will use. Patricia was very knowledgeable.\n– Very high quality. I loved being with other teachers\, and the sharing that Patricia made room for.\n– Patricia answered all of our questions and provided many resources to take home with us. \n  \nSchedule \nFriday\, July 19:  Check-in registration takes place 6:30-7pm. Orientation and your first class run from 7-9pm.\nSaturday\, July 20: Classes begin at 9am and run through 5:30\, with time for lunch and short mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks.\nSunday\, July 21: Classes begin at 9am and end at 1pm\, with a mid-morning break. \n  \nCost\n$360 includes all materials and a non-refundable $30 registration fee \n  \nThree Discount Options (Choose One! Discounts may not be combined.)  \n1. Friends and Family (Personal Discount):  Currently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount off one or more registrations. Discount instructions will appear on your registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. Accounts must be in good standing. \n2. Take Two and Save (Personal Discount):  10% discounts on subsequent registrations (of equal or lesser value) will automatically appear on your registration form when selecting more than one title. (Exception: Waldorf Weekend\, which offers an $85 discount when selected as a subsequent registration.) \n3. Send More/Save More (School Discount):  Schools paying for five or more registrations will receive discounts in increasing amounts.\nMake 5 registrations\, receive 5% off the total cost\nMake 6 registrations\, receive 6% off the total cost\nMake 7 registrations\, receive 7% off the total cost\nMake 8 registrations\, receive 8% off the total cost\nMake 9 registrations\, receive 9% off the total cost\nMake 10 or more registrations\, receive 10% off the total cost\nNOTE: When choosing this option\, please be sure to check off “Invoice my School” on your registration form. To qualify for the Send More/Save More discount\, registrations must be made by July 14. \n. \n  \n\n  \nQuestions?\nPPlease contact our summer office at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \n  \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/the-power-of-traditional-country-dancing-in-grades-1-8-how-dancing-together-can-enhance-learning-enrich-your-teaching-and-bring-social-health-to-your-classroom/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
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SUMMARY:Working with Parents: Developing and Sustaining Healthy Teacher-Parent Relationships
DESCRIPTION:For Waldorf teachers of all levels \nBehind every child stands a parent… or two\, or three\, or four! As teachers we tend to focus on our students\, sometimes forgetting the fact that our relationships with parents are every bit as important. In this workshop we will explore the different facets of the teacher-parent relationship; discuss successful ways of sharing with parents the wonderful\, challenging task of guiding their child through childhood; and do some hands-on activities to strengthen our powers of observation and compassion. \nTopics we will cover include: \n\nNavigating the (often tricky) parent/friend divide\nRunning effective and rewarding parent evenings\nCreating an atmosphere of trust and collaboration\nWriting tactful\, informative year-end reports\nEstablishing guidelines for healthy communication\nPreventing and managing crises\n\nInstructor \n Melissa Merkling is currently an educational support coordinator and extra lesson teacher at the Housatonic Valley Waldorf School in Newtown\, Connecticut\, the school she founded in 1989 and at which she has held virtually every position\, including early childhood and grades teacher\, administrator\, enrollment director\, and College and Board member. Melissa has attended and led anthroposophical classes and study groups for over twenty years.  She currently serves as a pedagogical mentor for students in Sunbridge’s Waldorf Elementary Teacher Education program\, and she is also a professional editor and proofreader. Melissa attended NYC’s Rudolf Steiner School from kindergarten through 12th grade\, studied art at Bennington College\, and earned a certificate in Waldorf early childhood education from Sunbridge College. \nStudents who previously took this workshop with Melissa had this to say: \n~ It was great to hear from a teacher with so much experience and wisdom. She gave us a lot of tools and ideas on how to work with parents. What a gift!\n~ The content was well delivered. Melissa was well prepared and added artistic activities\, which helped the mood of the heavy topics but also the quality of the group dynamic.\n~ I enjoyed the practical nature of the topic\, the realistic and artistic quality of instruction\, and the excellent resources provided.\n~ Melissa was very prepared and had many great tips. She was funny\, fun\, and very wise. She facilitated very well.\n~ Excellent balance of information and experiential activities. \n  \nYour workshop also includes singing with Patti Regan of Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School. \n  \nSchedule \nFriday\, July 19:  Check-in registration takes place 6:30-7pm. First class runs 7-9pm.\nSaturday\, July 20: Classes begin at 9am and run through 5:30\, with time for lunch and short mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks.\nSunday\, July 21: Classes begin at 9am and end at 1pm\, with a mid-morning break. \n  \nCost\n$360 includes all materials and non-refundable $30 registration fee \n  \nThree Discount Options (Choose One! Discounts may not be combined.)  \n1. Friends and Family (Personal Discount):  Currently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount off one or more registrations. Discount instructions will appear on your registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. Accounts must be in good standing. \n2. Take Two and Save (Personal Discount):  10% discounts on subsequent registrations (of equal or lesser value) will automatically appear on your registration form when selecting more than one title. (Exception: Waldorf Weekend\, which offers an $85 discount when selected as a subsequent registration.) \n3. Send More/Save More (School Discount):  Schools paying for five or more registrations will receive discounts in increasing amounts.\nMake 5 registrations\, receive 5% off the total cost\nMake 6 registrations\, receive 6% off the total cost\nMake 7 registrations\, receive 7% off the total cost\nMake 8 registrations\, receive 8% off the total cost\nMake 9 registrations\, receive 9% off the total cost\nMake 10 or more registrations\, receive 10% off the total cost\nNOTE: When choosing this option\, please be sure to check off “Invoice my School” on your registration form. To qualify for the Send More/Save More discount\, registrations must be made by July 14. \n  \n\n  \nQuestions?\nPlease contact our summer office at summer@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20 \n  \nSunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy.
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LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
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SUMMARY:2019 Teachers Conference: Addressing Sensory Development in the School-Age Child
DESCRIPTION:A conference on approaching the twelve senses as an essential tool for teachers\nWith keynote speaker Adam Blanning\, MD \nWalk-in registration will be accepted on Saturday morning. Come to the Main House at Sunbridge between 7:45-8:45. Walk-in cost is $330; cash or credit card.\nThe conference takes place in the Arts Building/Rose Hall on the Green Meadow Waldorf School campus. \nStudents struggling to be successful in their educational environment\, whether in independent or public school classrooms\, is a trend which shows no sign of abating. More and more\, children are exhibiting difficulty paying attention in class\, forming and remembering thoughts\, expressing themselves and listening to others\, and developing healthy social relationships. \nSunbridge Institute’s 2019 teachers conference offers an approach for educators seeking new and creative ways to engage—and engage with—these children\, in order to help them feel more comfortable within themselves and find their place in the world. \nThrough the guidance of leading anthroposophical physician and Waldorf school consultant Adam Blanning\, MD\, our conference takes a close look at the school-age child through the lens of the twelve senses—understood by Rudolf Steiner to be the entryways through which each individual can relate to and make sense of the world around them—so we may learn how to better understand and serve the children in our care today. \n  \nRudolf Steiner and the Twelve Senses \nSteiner divided the twelve senses into three groups\, directly tied to the first three life cycles of the developing human being during their first twenty-one years.  Unfolding from birth to approximately age seven\, the four foundational senses—life (health\, vitality)\, touch\, movement\, and balance (also known as the lower or inner senses)—connect young children to their own bodies\, anchoring them physically to the world and giving them their sense of self. From about ages 14-21\, the development of the four upper (or outer) senses—hearing\, language\, concept\, ego—serves to help adolescents find their connection to other human beings\, expanding their sense of cognition and of relating to one another\, along with their intellectual capacities. \nBetween these two stages lies the soul (or feeling) senses of smell\, taste\, sight\, and warmth. It is through these middle senses that the school-age child of 7-14 establishes a connection with and relationship to the outer world. Focusing on this stage of sensory development\, our conference will delve into what happens as children move between the lower and the upper senses during the grade school years—and what teachers can do to help facilitate a healthy transition. \n  \nDescription \nIn this conference\, we will: \n\nExamine what it is already embedded in the Waldorf curriculum that helps children on their sensory journey\nShare observations of where we see children getting off-track in their sensory development\nExplore what concrete steps we can give to the school-age child so they can navigate their sensory journey in a more integrated and fluid manner\n\nWe will approach our topic from the general (How do children move between the senses?) to the specific (How is Waldorf Education serving children who live in an increasingly visual world\, from screens to main lesson books?)\, using specific curricula as framework for our exploration. We will hone in on some common grades 1-8 subjects\, both academic and artistic\, and view the progression of how these subjects are taught through the lens of the twelve senses. \n  \nThrough presentation\, discussion\, and small group work focusing on specific curricular approaches (for class and subject teaching and remedial support)\, among the questions we will address are: \n\nHow do we work with the twelve senses\, taking children from developing themselves to developing a relationship to the world?\nHow do the four middle senses serve as an essential bridge between the lower and upper senses and move children from just seeing the world to being interested in the world?\nWhere are children getting “stuck” in one of the senses and how do we recognize and support those children?\nHow does working with the twelve senses affect diverse learners?\nWhat changes can we make to our curriculum to effect healthy sensory development?\n\n  \nWhile our 2019  Teachers Conference is designed specifically for class and subject teachers\, it is open to anyone interested in children and Waldorf Education. \n  \nSuggested background reading to familiarize you with the twelve senses before attending the conference:  \n\nSpiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms by Rudolf Steiner\, Lecture III\, August 8\, 1920 (available at SteinerBooks\, Amazon\, etc.) or online at the Rudolf Steiner Archive)\nUnderstanding Deeper Developmental Needs by Adam Blanning\, MD\, chapters 12 and 13 (available at SteinerBooks\, WECAN\, Amazon\, etc.)\n\n  \nKeynote Speaker \nAdam Blanning is currently serving as president of the Association for Anthroposophic Medicine and Therapies in America (AAMTA) and sits on the board of the Physicians’ Association for Anthroposophic Medicine (PAAM)\, for which he directs the training courses for doctors. He is also a founding member and core faculty for the “Nurturing the Roots” course in Waldorf early childhood therapeutic education and is on the staff of the Denver Center for Anthroposophic Therapies\, the medical practice he founded in 2003. In addition to his work as an educational and developmental consultant for Denver-area Waldorf schools\, he lectures regularly about anthroposophic medicine and child development\, including being a guest speaker for conferences in the US\, Canada\, New Zealand\, and Switzerland. Dr. Blanning attended the University of Colorado\, both as an undergraduate studying English literature and for his medical degree\, and taught family medicine at New York Medical College and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. His (proud) mother is Nancy Blanning\, Sunbridge’s Early Childhood program co-director. \nYour conference also includes presentations by Will Crane (Spacial Dynamics® movement educator) on subject teaching\, Elizabeth Hall (class teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf school\, and Sunbridge faculty member) on class teaching\, and Jeanette Rodriguez (program director of the Otto Specht School in Chestnut Ridge\, NY) on remedial support.. \n\n  \nSchedule \nFriday evening\, November 8: Doors open at 6:00pm for check-in registration. Conference begins at 7pm and runs until 8:30pm. \nSaturday\, November 9: Conference runs 9am-5:30pm with time for breaks and lunch.\n \n  \nHousing \nCampus housing is reserved directly through Threefold Educational Center. \n  \nCost \n$315 (includes Saturday breakfast\, lunch\, mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks\, and a $25 non-refundable registration fee). \n\nDiscount options \nOnly one discount may be applied: \n\nSend More/Save More (School Discount):  \n\nFor every three attendees a school registers/pays for\, a fourth registrant attends for free.\nSchools sending ten or more attendees receive an even higher discount (about 35% off the conference cost).\nSchools interested in taking advantage of one of our volume discount opportunities should fill out a volume discount form\, and then follow instructions provided in the form regarding having each attendee complete their individual registration. Requests for volume discounts must be submitted no later than one week prior to the conference date.\n\n\nFriends and Family (Personal Discount):  Currently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount. Discount instructions will appear on your registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. Accounts must be in good standing.\n\n  \nRegistration \nOnline registration is open through noon on Friday\, November 8. If you haven’t registered online by that day/time and still wish to attend\, you may register as a walk-in\, providing space is available (check this web page for updates). Walk-in cost is $330. \nREGISTER\n  \nQuestions?\nContact Admissions and Summer Coordinator Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20. \nSunbridge Institute reserves the right to cancel any offering at any time. If Sunbridge cancels\, all registrants will be notified and will receive a full refund. If the registrant cancels\, he or she will receive a full refund less the non-refundable registration fee.  Sunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. \n\n 
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/2019-teachers-conference/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Grades
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SUMMARY:Decades of Talking about Social Change: An Evening with Christopher and Signe Schaefer
DESCRIPTION:For over 50 years Chris and Signe Schaefer have been discussing and working for social change.  Their ongoing conversation—on whether change happens through systemic and structural transformation\, through individual development\, or is reliant on both—is reflected in their two new books: \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThis November\, join the Schaefers for an evening of dialogue about human development\, social transformation\, and the struggles of our times\, with short readings from their new books. \n  \nDate/Time/Place \nFriday evening\, November 22\, at 7:30pm in Upper Brookside \nThis event is free and open to the public.  \n(Also check out Chris’s workshop the following Saturday morning.) \n  \nAbout the Schaefers \nChris and Signe Schaefer each have a long history of teaching\, first at Emerson College in England and then\, for many years\, at Sunbridge College\, where Signe directed the Foundation Studies and Biography programs and Chris directed the Waldorf School Administration and Community Development program; they also both served on the Sunbridge Board. In the years since\, Signe co-founded the Center for Biography and Social Art\, and Chris has facilitated organization and community development with Waldorf schools and other institutions; he is also co-director of the Center for Social Research at the Hawthorne Valley Association. \nSigne is the author of Why on Earth? – Biography and the Practice of Human Becoming\, as well as a co-author of Ariadne’s Awakening and co-editor of More Lifeways. Chris’s previous books include Partnerships of Hope: Building Waldorf School Communities and Vision in Action: Working with Soul and Spirit in Small Organizations. \nNow retired from teaching\, the couple lives in Great Barrington\, Massachusetts. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/decades-of-talking-about-social-change-an-evening-with-christopher-and-signe-schaefer/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
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SUMMARY:Finding Hope and Re-Imagining America: A Workshop with Christopher Schaefer
DESCRIPTION:Working from his new book Re-Imagining America: Finding Hope in Difficult Times\, Chris Schaefer will explore questions of how we can understand the corruption and decline of our nation and how we can become more effective advocates for a better America. \nThis workshop\, which follows the Friday evening talk with Chris and his wife\, Signe\, consists of short talks\, exercises\, individual reflection\, and small group conversations. \n  \nDate/Time/Place \nSaturday\, November 23\, at 9am-12:00 noon in Upper Brookside \nCost \nContribution $30 \n  \nAbout the Author \nChristopher Schaefer\, PhD\, has been an adult educator and organization development adviser for most of his working life. He has taught at MIT and Tufts\, in addition to his years teaching at Sunbridge College and England’s Emerson College. Chris is the author of Partnerships of Hope: Building Waldorf School Communities and co-author of Vision in Action\, Working with Soul and Spirit in Small Organizations. He co-directs the Center for Social Research at the Hawthorne Valley Association and resides with Signe in the Berkshires.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/finding-hope-and-re-imagining-america-a-workshop-with-christopher-schaefer/
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SUMMARY:Planning and Creating a Mixed-Age Waldorf Grade School: Methods and Strategies for Sustainability and Success
DESCRIPTION:A pedagogical leadership workshop for school directors/administrators\, faculty chairs\, teachers\, and board members interested in exploring the intentionality and the process of combining grades \nWith facilitator Jody Spanglet of Ashwood Waldorf School \n  \nDescription\nWhile a departure from typical Waldorf convention\, mixed-age classrooms are a growing reality in many Waldorf schools today. Combining grades can strengthen a school and its pedagogy—and benefit students—by \n\nHelping a school maintain a healthy student population\nRequiring innovation and fresh thinking on the part of the teacher and the school\nCreating class sizes that allow for a favorable social mix and opportunities for group work\nProviding older students in need of remedial work opportunities to strengthen their skills\nProviding capable younger students exposure to more challenging skills classes\nProviding multi-age experiences that allow younger and older students to develop deep and lasting relationships\n\n  \nJody Spanglet of Ashwood Waldorf School has seen the advantages students and schools realize when schools intentionally combine grades. In Planning and Creating a Mixed-Age Waldorf Grade School: Methods and Strategies for Sustainability and Success we will explore mixed-age Waldorf grade schools from a strategic planning and governance lens. Through presentation\, discussion\, and sharing\, our focus will be on \n\n\nThe culture of your school: Does it support or undermine your multi-age classroom? \n\n\nHow to create and communicate a predictable and transparent strategic plan incorporating the multi-age model \n\n\nHow to manage expectations (for parents and others) \n\n\nHow to staff a mixed-age classroom and provide professional development for teachers as needed \n\n\nHow to conceive of and successfully work with a developmentally-based curriculum in a mixed-age classroom \n\n\nHow to evaluate the progress and outcome of combining grades \n\n\n  \nYou will leave with a newfound appreciation of the benefits that can result when combining Waldorf grades\, and the knowledge of how to plan\, create\, and sustain a mixed-age grade school. \n  \nFacilitator  \nJody Spanglet has been director of Rockport\, Maine’s Ashwood Waldorf School since 2005. Previously she was a  grades 1-8 and 5-8 class teacher.  Jody started her Waldorf career as after-care teacher at the Charlottesville Waldorf School when her daughter was a student there. She has since pursued 20 years of coursework in Waldorf Education and anthroposophical study at AWSNA-accredited institutions. Jody received a BA in sociology from SUNY Binghamton and her MSEd in Social Foundations of Education from the University of Virginia. \n  \nSchedule \nFriday evening\, January 24: Doors open at 6:30pm for check-in registration. Workshop begins at 7pm and runs until 8:30pm.\nSaturday\, January 25: Workshop runs 9am-5:30pm with time for breaks and lunch\n \n  \nWorkshop Cost and Meal Plan \nThe workshop cost is $295 via online registration (cost includes Saturday mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks and a $25 non-refundable registration fee). Online registration is available through noon on Friday\, January 24. If you haven’t registered by then and still wish to attend\, walk-in registrations will be accepted at the walk-in cost of $310. Note: Meal plans are not an option for walk-in registrants. \nFor the convenience of workshop participants\, we offer an optional meal plan consisting of Saturday breakfast (8-9am) and lunch (midday) served at the on-campus Threefold Cafe. You may sign up for the meal plan on your registration form. The $20 meal plan cost is non-refundable after 1/21/20. \n  \nDiscount options \n\nFor every three registrations it makes\, a school may send a fourth attendee for free (the fourth registration cost will be rebated after the workshop takes place). Schools should fill out a volume discount form.\nCurrent Sunbridge program students receive 30% off the workshop cost and Sunbridge program alumni receive 15% off; a discount code will appear on your registration form once you provide identifying information. Only one discount option may be applied.\n\n  \nHousing \nCampus housing and local accommodations are reserved directly through Threefold Educational Center. \n  \nREGISTER\n  \nQuestions?\nContact Admissions and Summer Coordinator Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x20. \nSunbridge Institute reserves the right to cancel any offering at any time. If Sunbridge cancels\, all registrants will be notified and will receive a full refund. If the registrant cancels\, he or she will receive a full refund less the non-refundable registration fee.  Sunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary.
URL:https://www.sunbridge.edu/event/planning-and-creating-a-mixed-age-waldorf-grade-school-methods-and-strategies-for-sustainability-and-success/
LOCATION:Sunbridge Institute\, 285 Hungry Hollow Road\, Chestnut Ridge\, NY\, 10977\, United States
CATEGORIES:Courses and Workshops,Featured,Grades
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