PWS High School alumni visit with HS Art Director Mr. Getnick
Intentionally Raising Good Humans
At Pasadena Waldorf School, we help students grow into kind, confident, and compassionate young adults.
As parents and educators, we want to see children thrive—not just academically, but in every aspect of life. We want them to become critical thinkers and curious learners, and we want them to grow into caring, honest, and conscientious young adults, capable of building meaningful, mutually respectful relationships with the people around them.
At Pasadena Waldorf School, we believe that a truly holistic education considers every aspect of a child’s life. Here, we encourage our students’ cognitive and social skills, alongside their moral imagination and inner development. These human qualities will serve them in a changing and unpredictable future; they are also essential to a rich and meaningful life.
Here are some of the ways that we build character at Pasadena Waldorf School.
A Healthy Social Life
In our collaborative classrooms and across our school community, we nourish relationships between students, teachers, and families, explicitly teaching children about values like kindness, inclusion, and mutual respect. When conflict arises, it is treated as a teachable moment, giving children the opportunity to learn about resolution and restorative practices.
Trusting Relationships
We foster strong and trusting relationships at school through small class sizes and stable multiyear teacher-student cohorts. Our teachers get to know every student individually, encouraging them to reach their full potential personally and academically. In addition to fostering their students’ personal growth, our faculty strives to bring their best selves to the classroom every day—inspiring their students to do the same!
Collaborative Classrooms
Our classrooms are hands-on and social environments where teachers promote social cohesion and group work through daily activities like singing, reciting verses in unison, working on math problems in small groups, listening to peers present a research paper or book report, and playing games or sports.
Care for Our Community
In our school community, everyone contributes. As early as preschool, students are given meaningful chores and responsibilities, such as sweeping the floor after snack time or helping plant seeds in the campus garden. These early experiences lay the groundwork for middle school and high school, when students engage in both service-learning and on-campus community service.
Embracing Challenge
Performing for a live audience in the school play. Hiking up a rocky slope. Outlining a creative writing project. Sleeping under the stars. Every year at Pasadena Waldorf School, students have opportunities to challenge themselves, take risks, and step outside their comfort zones through both curricular and co-curricular activities that build resilience, diligence, and self-confidence.
Come visit our campus to learn more about what we do at Pasadena Waldorf School.