05/17/08
May Fair 11:00am – 4:00pm
Welcome
Discover Waldorf Education
The Chicago Waldorf School community invites you to explore Waldorf education from early childhood through high school. Waldorf education is based on the research into child development conducted by Austrian educator and philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). The Waldorf approach recognizes the simple but profound insight that children learn in distinctly different ways at different stages of their development. Waldorf schools introduce and teach in ways that correspond to the developmental needs of the growing child. Our strong academic curriculum is based on building and fostering the child’s natural capacities at each developmental stage. In classrooms full of light and life, Waldorf students learn traditional academic subjects through distinctive and time-tested teaching methods that serve their intellectual, physical, emotional and spiritual development. Engaging the hands and the heart as well as the mind cultivates a real inner enthusiasm for learning, the hallmark of a Waldorf education.
The Chicago Waldorf School has been helping families raise well-balanced, multifaceted young people since 1974. A rapidly growing international educational movement that began almost 90 years ago, Waldorf education has grown to over 900 independent Waldorf schools worldwide. The Chicago Waldorf School is one of Chicagoland’s leading independent schools. Come experience the continuity of a complete and integrated curriculum which extends from early childhood through high school. The Chicago Waldorf School is accredited by both the Independent Schools Association the Central States and the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America. Our outstanding and dedicated faculty has led the Chicago Waldorf School to become one of the most respected and successful Waldorf schools in North America.
The best way to learn more about a Chicago Waldorf School education is to see it for yourself. We offer regularly scheduled school tours which provide an ideal opportunity to visit our campus, meet the teachers and best of all, see the education in action. Sunday afternoon Open Houses provide a more relaxed format and are child-friendly. For schedule details, please visit our events calendar. To RSVP to attend an Orientation or Open House, please call Eliza Bivins at 773.828.8468.
Waldorf schools are nonsectarian. Values such as respect for self and others, universal to all religious and spiritual traditions, are upheld in the classrooms. Spiritual leaders of many cultures are studied through the history of world civilizations. The question of religion is left strictly to the family.
The Chicago Waldorf School is committed to equal-opportunity education and welcomes families of all ethnic, social and religious backgrounds.