Ashwood Waldorf School is closed starting March 16 until further notice.
Ashwood Waldorf School is an independent, pre-K through eighth grade learning community. Ashwood offers a rigorous, classical education structured around the stages of human development. Our professional faculty is devoted to challenging and engaging each student through a curriculum that integrates science and mathematics with literature, history, and the arts. Ashwood graduates are vibrant, balanced and confident individuals with the initiative to learn, adapt, and thrive in a changing world.
Ashwood has just released its new Five-Year Strategic Plan
Ashwood Waldorf School’s Five-Year Strategic Plan marks the school’s position at the beginning of the second hundred years of Waldorf education. This plan holds fast to the school’s mission while providing a guiding vision for its future and a working plan for how to get there. Click here for details.
Early Childhood
Our early-childhood teachers create a warm, caring atmosphere that nurtures each child’s initiative through creative play and fosters healthy social experiences.
Grade School
Central to Ashwood’s philosophy is a desire to honor childhood and make learning joyful. Individual achievement gives way to the quality of our students’ relationships with their teachers and classmates.
Middle School
Through each of the main lesson subjects teachers lay the groundwork for the deepening and widening of the students’ understanding of the world and their unique place within it.
Campus News
Ashwood Tour Offers Window on Waldorf
On Wednesday, April 8, from 8:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Ashwood Waldorf School will offer community members an opportunity to visit classes in-session. This behind-the-scenes look at Waldorf education is for all those who are curious about what goes on in a...
Hand Washing Song
The teachers at Ashwood have been hard at work creating take home learning plans for our students. We miss you! So we made this video for you. It's a song you can sing when you wash your hands (over and over!) It's just the right length (20 seconds or so) if you sing...
APC Funds Restorative Practices Workshop for Faculty
The faculty wishes to acknowledge and thank Ashwood’s parents for their generous contribution that will allow three of Ashwood’s grade school teachers to attend a six-session AWSNA Restorative Practices workshop. Through the APC’s contribution and the donation of an...
Class 1–2 Studies the Life of Wangari Maathai
Text: Wangari Maathai planted one million trees with the help of many Kenyan women. She was hit and jailed, but she never gave up. As part of their Saints and Legends block, Class 1-2 has been studying the life of Wangarĩ Muta Maathai (1940–2011) a renowned Kenyan...
Where In the World Is Ms. Davis?
Sophie Davis, Ashwood’s strings teacher, will be off on an exciting adventure for the next several weeks. Her travels will take her to a schooner traveling through the Caribbean, while she collects water sound recordings later be integrated into a musical piece...