Author: Jody Spanglet
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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 individual parent, Jeremy Clough, Elizabeth Doshi, and Rob Kaczor have all registered for this important training…
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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 to performed by he Halcyon String Quartet. While Ms. Davis is away, Hannah Miller,…
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Our 2020-2021 First Grade Teacher
Please join us in enthusiastically welcoming Lori Duckstad to Ashwood’s faculty as grade one teacher in 2020-2021. Lori is a trained Waldorf teacher with more than 20 years of experience as a Waldorf class, handwork, and music teacher. In addition to teaching first grade, Lori will also teach handwork to grades one through seven next…
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Tamara Rosenthal to Join Early Childhood as Assistant Next Year
We are happy to announce that Tamara Rosenthal will be Ashwood’s early childhood assistant for next year. Many of you already know Tamara as Sora and Phoebe’s mom, and if you have met her, you already know what a warm, loving, and kind person Tamara is. Tamara completed her Waldorf early childhood teacher training through the…
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Open House & Pancake Breakfast a Sweet Success
On Saturday, April 6, 2019 Ashwood Waldorf School hosted its fifth annual Open House & Pancake Breakfast. I was fortunate enough to flip pancakes for all of the wonderful children and adults who visited the school that day. There were current Ashwood families as well as visitors interested in our school. While the smell of sweet…
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How Do Ashwood Teachers Address Conflict in the Classroom?
5 Ways We Help Students Grow in Their Ability to Resolve Differences “The answer is not the main event, the attempt to understand is.” — Kim John Payne M.Ed. Coping with the stress of conflict is becoming an increasingly common yet difficult challenge for children, and one that our teachers see as an important focus of our work with the students. Like all complicated issues, there…
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A New Approach to Teaching Science
Twenty-first century children are entering a world filled with complex technological wonders that allow them to communicate with people across the globe in seconds, have vast storehouses of information, literally, at their finger tips, and look forward to a future where machines will be able to perform highly sophisticated functions previously delegated to…