If you have a chance to stop by the school foyer, you'll have the delightful opportunity to see the array of beautiful self portraits by the class of 2023.

We are excited to announce that registration is now open for our 2023 summer camps.

Camp offerings include:

• Children's Garden Camps
• Biking Camps
• Maker Camps
• Writing Camps
• Vocal Arts Camp
• And more...

Learn More & Register

We will not actively advertise camps outside our community until Feb 1 to give you the first opportunity to register.

Are you interested in visiting the school library? A Parent Collection to the left of the library entrance has books on Waldorf education, parenting, crafts and child development. There is a wide selection of books for all ages, including a wonderful collection of picture books on the shelves under the windows.

The library staff, Tammy Gompper and Kathleen Baker, are happy to assist you and are available Monday through Thursday, 8:15 - 9am & 12:30 - 1pm

Another great source for books on Waldorf education is The Online Waldorf Library. This site was created to provide information and “to make visible all the available book resources on Waldorf education that are currently in print.”  Also included are a number of eBooks and educational journals that can be downloaded for free.

It was lovely to see so many folks at Lunch Music earlier this afternoon, enjoying offerings from the High School and Grades 3 & 4. Be sure to mark your calendars for the next Lunch Music on Feb 8!

January

25/ Wednesday

• Songbirds Parent/Guardian Evening, 7pm
• Waldorf in the Woods Parent/Guardian Evening, 7pm

26/ Thursday

• Whole School Morning Tour, 9am
• G1-12 Pep Rally (during school)

27/ Friday

• Senior Night Basketball Games at Burke, 4pm & 5:30pm

27-28/ Friday-Saturday

• Green Meadow Basketball Friendship Games (No Classes G7 & G8)

31/ Tuesday

• New Student Applications Due for 2023-2024.

February

2/ Thursday

• Adult Education Talk at WWS, 7pm (see below)

3/ Friday

• Faculty Appreciation Luncheon (see below to volunteer)

4/ Saturday

• Contra Dance (Grades 8-12)

8/ Wednesday

• Lunch Music, 12:15pm

9/ Thursday

• Sunflowers Parent/Guardian Evening, 7pm

10-11/ Friday-Saturday

• Kimberton Basketball Tournament (No High School Classes)

View the Calendar of School Days for the 2022-2023 School Year

HS Basketball “Senior Night” Games

Friday, Jan 27

HS Girls 4pm & HS Boys 5:30pm

Edmund Burke School

4101 Connecticut Ave NW

All are invited to join us in celebrating our seniors and cheering on our HS basketball teams this Friday!

Thank you to our friends at Burke for sharing their HS basketball teams' Senior Night games with us for years. Seniors on both schools' teams will be honored before the start of each game. Be sure to allow time for parking and be in the gym 15 min before the start of each game!  

"Teaching in a World on Fire"

talk by David Barham (Visiting High School Teacher)

Thursday, Feb 2 at 7pm at WWS

Join us for a talk about Waldorf high school education and the worldwide Waldorf movement with David Barham. David recently completed the American Transcendentalists morning lesson block with the Class of 2023 at WWS. He has taught for 29 years in Waldorf grade and high school classes at Pine Hill Waldorf School & High Mowing School in Wilton, NH, at El Papalote in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, and at Maine Coast Waldorf School in Freeport, Maine.

Now, David is no longer full-time in the classroom but serves as the Leader for the Northeast/Quebec region and on the Leadership Council of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA), and as of September, has become the Director of the Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program (WHiSTEP) through CfA. He writes, consults, mentors, and dreams of a world where more children and families have access to Waldorf education. His children all attended Waldorf schools and his wife, Kelly Marie, is the Faculty Chair at Acorn Hill.

Help Celebrate the Faculty at the Appreciation Luncheon on Feb 3!

Once a year, WWS families honor and appreciate our hard-working, dedicated and beloved faculty by offering them a delicious luncheon. This year's event is on Friday, Feb 3, in the school library.

Thank you in advance for your contributions of food and time. Those who come in to help on the day have a lot of fun arranging the room and dishes and getting to witness the faculty and staff enjoying themselves!

To produce the event, we need your help in two ways:

1. Setting up, staffing during the lunch, and cleaning up.
2. Food offerings.

Sign up to help with set up, staffing, and clean up.

Sign up to contribute food offerings. Each class has a type of food assigned, but they are merely suggestions; if you’d like to contribute a dish that is assigned to a different class, go for it! In either case, please leave a comment saying what you plan to bring.

WWS and the Undoing Racism Working Group are hosting an in-person Undoing Racism Workshop, led by PISAB at WWS

Saturday and Sunday, March 4-5, from roughly 9am-5pm.

The Undoing Racism Workshop (URW), created and offered by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB), has been a proven change agent for over 40 years. It has come to be recognized as “the Gold Standard when it comes to supporting people to understand how racism dehumanizes all of us, and how it can be undone" (pisab.org). We’ve seen the URW’s impact powerfully evidenced in those of us who have participated in a virtual session and gather monthly to use it as the foundation for our anti-racism practice.

The full cost of the workshop is $515, and we have sponsorship funds available. We will try to coordinate childcare among attending families. 

Please contact Jesse Travis or Dini Rao at jessetravis@gmail.com or dinivrao@gmail.com for additional details.

Employment Opportunities

We've posted a few open positions recently - both teaching and administrative faculty. Some positions are open currently and some will begin with the move to the next school year. If you know of any strong candidates, please share the list of open positions and encourage them to apply!

https://www.washingtonwaldorf.org/about/employment/

• BigSis Portal - keep your contact information up to date!
• Current Health Policy - updated Aug 29, 2022.
• Lunch program info for current families in ParentSquare.
• Map of the pick up and drop off flow.
• Magnus Portal for student forms.
• Bulletin newsletters.

If you cannot find the information you are looking for on ParentSquare, please email your department coordinator/administrator:

• Children's Garden - Cecilia Berg-Benson
• Lower School - Christen Leonard 
• High School - Bonnie McClelland

Invitation - Undoing Racism Working Group Feb Gathering

Monday, Feb 6 at 7pm

We welcome all WWS community members to join the Undoing Racism Working Group for our February gathering. Together we will share Black history and celebrate Black brilliance in honor of Black History Month. If you'd like to join us on Monday, Feb 6 at 7pm, RSVP to jessetravis@gmail.com or dinivrao@gmail.com.

Seeking Elder Care Position

from Natalie Adams (Former WWS Faculty & Alum Parent)

Photchana (Thum) Keadrit seeks a full time elder care position. It can be live-in or live-out. She has worked for the past six plus years for a family taking care of a couple in their 90s. The husband passed away this past year and the wife has entered hospice care, and Thum's services are not longer needed. She most recently came to Massachusetts to help my 96 year old mother-in-law who needed support recovering at home from being in the hospital. She provided the best care my mother-in-law has ever had.

Thum has two related licenses: Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) and Certified Medical Technician (CMT). In addition to being an exceedingly patient, thorough, and loving caretaker, Thum is an excellent cook, responsible driver, and first rate organizer; she can help with whatever one needs around the house. She also has more than two decades experience as a nanny for children from birth through the teen years. She helped care for my two children (WWS class of '05 and class of '08) when they were young.

Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or call Thum directly on her cell phone 301-792-1523. Natalie Adams 301-221-6224.

Pedagogical Speech Workshop 

From Debbie Spitulnik (WWS Alum Parent & Former Faculty)

February 3 - 5

3:30 - 6:30pm Friday

9am - 3pm Saturday & Sunday 

Unfolding the IMAGINATION

Unlocking the creative forces in the WORD

A pedagogical speech WORKSHOP for all who seek to enliven their speaking with Christine Burke & Debbie Spitulnik.

Location: Bethesda, MD

Cost: $275

For more information: dspitulnik@gmail.com

Register: www.theartofspeech.org

Listen to a podcast from Debbie Spitulnik about creative speech.

Richmond Waldorf School Benefit Concert

From Alexandra Porr Mazères (WWS Alum Parent)

Christoph Wagner & Joanne Kong will perform a benefit concert for Richmond Waldorf School in March. The Wagner & Kong Duo is praised for their musical sensitivity, impacting diverse audiences in transformative concert experiences.

Sun, March 12 at 4:30pm

Eternity Church 1200 Wilmington Avenue Richmond, VA 23227

Get Tickets

Donate Extra Beeswax! 

Do you have any extra/unwanted modeling beeswax or leftover beeswax candles? The third grade is planning an event where we melt and clean the beeswax, and use it to create new candles. If you have some you'd like to pass along, please leave it at the front desk by this Friday, Jan 27.

Sounder Sleep System®: A course to transform your sleep (online)

from Alison Babil (WWS Alum Parent)

The Sounder Sleep System® uses simple, gentle movements to calm your nervous system and bring you from an alert state to a state of deep calm. Sounder Sleep draws upon the Feldenkrais® method and ancient Chinese medicine. What people are saying: "I am having AMAZING results from the Sounder Sleep System course!! I am falling asleep without sleep aids, and it is deep sleep. I feel great!" -- Joni B., Sounder Sleep System® class participant.

Six Wednesdays, via Zoom, January 11 - February 15, 6:30 - 7:45pm

For more information and to RSVP: Email Alison and send payment in the amount of $145 via one of these - Venmo: @Alison-Babil | Zelle: Alison Babil | PayPal

*A limited number of discounted slots available for those who need it. Email Alison to inquire.

*If you miss classes and are interested, please email to join the rest of the series. Classes are recorded.

DC Condo For Sale

From Tamara Minor (WWS Parent)

This exquisite two-level condo with an incredibly large open floor plan allows for well over an abundance of sunlight, fully renovated property with high end fixtures and appliances. Located near 14th St,16th St and Adams Morgan restaurants and entertainment, as well as downtown DC and Silver Spring. Garage parking. $1,199,000

Seller will entertain all reasonable offers and incentives such as closing help to buyer and/or byer agent bonuses. Developer has made arrangement with local lender for great financing.

Learn More

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