At the Emerson Waldorf School, the unique gifts and contributions of each child are honored through a developmentally appropriate curriculum that educates a student's body, mind, and spirit. Children are guided to develop compassion and reverence for themselves and the world community. Emerson Waldorf High School provides a balanced, challenging curriculum grounded in the classics and engaged in the modern world.
Our students become active learners and creative, flexible thinkers with the confidence to face the complex challenges of our interconnected world. Grade School children are inspired deeply by their feelings and by the beauty of the world around them. Participating in music, art, movement, and drama allows a student to explore academic concepts through their imagination and body, thereby, developing a deeper connection to the material.
Our students become active learners and creative, flexible thinkers with the confidence to face the complex challenges of our interconnected world. Grade School children are inspired deeply by their feelings and by the beauty of the world around them. Participating in music, art, movement, and drama allows a student to explore academic concepts through their imagination and body, thereby, developing a deeper connection to the material.
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We began in rented church space with 21 kindergarteners and seven 2nd and 3rd grade students. As word about Emerson's program spread, our school doubled in size the second school year and doubled again in year three. Rapid growth kept us scrambling for more space, which lead to the purchase of our current site and construction of the grade school building.
The Emerson Waldorf School in Chapel Hill, NC is situated on 54 acres of forest, fields and hills, just a 20-minute drive from downtown Durham, Hillsborough, and RDU Airport. The classrooms, studios, amphitheater, athletic field and farm provide an idyllic, woodland environment for indoor-outdoor, multisensory education.
The Emerson Waldorf School is proud of its exceptionally dedicated and experienced faculty and staff. All of our Grades, Subject and lead Early Childhood faculty have either completed or are completing their Waldorf Teacher Certification, have a Master's Degree or they have equivalent Waldorf experience.
Emerson Waldorf is committed to providing a safe and nurturing educational environment for every student. We continually seek to improve the ways we serve and support all members of the community. A supportive space is the fertile soil in which all the seeds of diversity may grow. Students feel safer in school when they are educated in a diverse setting, and classroom discussion is enriched with multi-cultural perspectives.
The focus of the College is pedagogical policy. Working with a model of shared discernment and consensus, the College of Teachers makes pedagogical decisions out of its shared study of the growing child.
The College's first and foremost responsibility is the spiritual wellbeing of the school, expressed through an oversight of curriculum development, pedagogical policy, program administration, faculty hiring and dismissal, professional development, and student admissions.The College will consult with the Board for input on decisions that impact the budget, such as adding, eliminating, or changing programs, and hiring and dismissal of faculty.
The College's first and foremost responsibility is the spiritual wellbeing of the school, expressed through an oversight of curriculum development, pedagogical policy, program administration, faculty hiring and dismissal, professional development, and student admissions.The College will consult with the Board for input on decisions that impact the budget, such as adding, eliminating, or changing programs, and hiring and dismissal of faculty.
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Leslie S.
Jan 04, 2021
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Waldorf education has been amazing for our 2 girls (who are now 12 and 15).
They started as babies and are now in Junior High and High School. We were so lucky to have found Emerson which is one of the few Waldorf schools in the country which goes through high school. They attended a Montessori school for one year when we were living in an area that had no Waldorf school nearby. It was a disaster! The following year we moved to a location which had an accredited Waldorf school and the girls quickly got back into the swing of it. Learning languages (currently German and Spanish) in early
They started as babies and are now in Junior High and High School. We were so lucky to have found Emerson which is one of the few Waldorf schools in the country which goes through high school. They attended a Montessori school for one year when we were living in an area that had no Waldorf school nearby. It was a disaster! The following year we moved to a location which had an accredited Waldorf school and the girls quickly got back into the swing of it. Learning languages (currently German and Spanish) in early
John D.
May 02, 2014
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