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Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, Professor and Chair of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, believes art should be integrated into core curriculum. Her new book argues in favor of forwarding the value of the artistic process of creating, cultivating, initiating, and unfolding over instructing, memorizing, and reciting.
![Waldorf School's Outdoor Education in the News]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1636117151/waldorfeducationorg/kghj1sovj4xwtehqvqff/ShiningMTClass7.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1636117151/waldorfeducationorg/kghj1sovj4xwtehqvqff/ShiningMTClass7.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1636117151/waldorfeducationorg/kghj1sovj4xwtehqvqff/ShiningMTClass7.jpg","width":600}])
Shining Mountain Waldorf School Community is in the news for their outdoor education and recent seventh grade backpacking trip. The seventh grade students hiked in with their gear, set up camp, installed their own tarps, cooked their own meals and took care of themselves and others.
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Cyber Civics celebrated Media Literacy Week with the feature article -- Waldorf Schools are Media Literacy Role Models -- discussing Waldorf education's approach to media access for children.
![Waldorf Alum Networking: Health and Wellness in the 21st Century]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1634235973/waldorfeducationorg/s1ti0rikaabb81nzn2up/600x400HealthanWell.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1634235973/waldorfeducationorg/s1ti0rikaabb81nzn2up/600x400HealthanWell.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1634235973/waldorfeducationorg/s1ti0rikaabb81nzn2up/600x400HealthanWell.jpg","width":600}])
You are warmly invited to join our next bi-monthly Waldorf Alum Networking and Social Hour in the afternoon/evening of Tuesday, November 9 at 4:30 PT / 5:30 MT / 6:30 CT / 7:30 ET.
![Waldorf Alum Turns Senior Project into Successful Nonprofit]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1633441670/waldorfeducationorg/l2du2ik23zszojzcpa3z/PawsandClaws600.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1633441670/waldorfeducationorg/l2du2ik23zszojzcpa3z/PawsandClaws600.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1633441670/waldorfeducationorg/l2du2ik23zszojzcpa3z/PawsandClaws600.jpg","width":600}])
Chicago Waldorf School alum, Ashlynn Boyce, has turned her senior project into a thriving non profit animal rescue. Her organization has saved 414 kittens, puppies, cats and dogs by placing them in foster or forever homes.