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Freedom Within Form

After Ruby Moore attended the Elves’ Faire for the first time, her daughter Roxy (then 7) remarked, “The kids who go to school here are really lucky!” Roxy (now in 4th Grade) and her brother, Robin (6 th Grade), joined the PWS community the next year along with mother Ruby, their father, Ron and stepmother, [...]

Spark for Life

Jesse Zamarripa and his wife, Anna, began their relationship with PWS when they enrolled daughter Adelle in the Poppy Preschool last fall. However, their awareness of Waldorf was fostered much earlier with Anna’s two Waldorf-educated brothers, the youngest of whom graduates from Sacramento Waldorf this spring before attending Rhode Island School of Design come autumn. [...]

Ah-Ha Moments

“I fell in love with Waldorf education when my first son, Tovi, was a toddler. It just seemed right and a great fit for our family style. I like that children stay together as a class for 8 years, and grow up with the same teacher. Most of all, I love that the curriculum fosters [...]

The Heart Knows

“I did not know if it was the ideal education for my daughter, I just felt it. There are some things that the mind doesn’t know but the heart does, and this was one of them. The difference in this type of education is that first you can feel it through your soul [or will], [...]

The Feeling of Community

“Like a lot of us [parents], our first experience with PWS was the Elves’ Faire. We had heard it was fun, wholesome and put on completely by the parents of the school (we had to see that!). At the time, I didn’t know a Waldorf from a Waldo, but Catherine and I knew we wanted [...]