Weaving Connections: Meeting the Children of Today (Grades focus)

Our second installment in a series of three sessions will feature Grades teachers Magally Luna of Denver Waldorf School and Emily Remensperger of Green Meadow Waldorf School, who bring their diverse backgrounds to this work.

You’ll leave this session with practical ideas for enlivening your work with young people in Grades 1-8!

Series Overview:

In response to many requests and to support teachers in their daily classroom work, Alma Partners is offering a Community Class Series in Fall 2025/Winter 2026, in which teachers will share about the concrete, practical steps they are taking to contextualize their pedagogy, curriculum, and classroom.

Through this series, we will explore what contextualizing means, and discuss the delicate and skillful art of weaving traditional Waldorf education with the needs of today’s children. What does Waldorf Education look like as it connects with newer modalities such as anti-bias education, culturally and historically responsive education, decolonizing education, and the complex world of state curriculum standards?

Guests with expertise working with different age groups will present their work, share resources, and engage directly with questions from participants. We will also hold additional space for brainstorming, with facilitation provided by Alma Partners.

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Magally Luna has been a full-time teacher at the Denver Waldorf School since 2002 in the capacities of Class Teacher and Spanish Teacher. Additionally, she was a 12th Grade Class Trip Guide to Peru and Costa Rica from 2002 to 2018. In addition to teaching, Magally co-facilitates AWSNA’s BIPOC Affinity Group, acts as a restorative justice facilitator, mentor, and movement teacher. Outside of schools, Magally is an actress in local theaters throughout Denver and a singer in a salsa band called Kizumba (who played at the AWSNA conference in 2024).

Emily Remensperger (she/her) is a Second Grade Class Teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School (Chestnut Ridge, NY)​. A visual artist and educator with an MA in Art Education from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) and a certification in Waldorf Elementary Education from Sunbridge Institute (Chestnut Ridge, NY), Emily has over 14 years of class teaching experience, beginning at the Housatonic Valley Waldorf School (Newtown, CT), where she taught Grades 1-8. As a K-12 Waldorf alum turned teacher​, Emily is committed to increasing equity and justice in Waldorf curriculum and Waldorf school culture.