Teaching as an Art Instructors

Teaching as an art instructors

July 7 - 12th, 2024

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Early Childhood

Martha Gollogy

Martha Gollogly

Director of Early Childhood

Martha grew up in Austria & completed her Waldorf Early Childhood Training in Germany. She has been a kindergarten teacher & director in independent and public Waldorf education. She shares her love of music with students in the training.

Bonnie River

Bonnie River

Early Childhood

Bonnie River, Ed. D. Candidate, began her journey in education in 1971 when she completed teacher training at San Jose State University. During this time she joined an Anthroposophical study group in Santa Cruz, CA, and made the decision to devote herself to a life in Waldorf Education. In the ensuing 40+ years, Bonnie has served on faculty and in founding positions in 5 Independent Waldorf Schools and 2 Public Waldorf Schools.

Lin Welch

Lin Welch M.A.

Early Childhood

Lin has been teaching for 27 years. She has taught Kindergarten in private and charter Waldorf Schools. She has an M.A. degree in Transpersonal Counseling and Education from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Stephanie Skinner

Stephanie Skinner M.A.

Early Childhood

Stephanie has worked within Waldorf education for 25 years. She has served as a Kindergarten teacher in both independent and public Waldorf Schools, administrator for the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education, director of Live Oak Waldorf School’s Sunflower Nursery, and a teacher-trainer for the Hybrid Program of Rudolf Steiner College. Currently she runs a small forest-and-farm-based early childhood program in Grass Valley, CA.

Lori Daniels

Lori Daniels

Early Childhood

For over thirty years Lori has worked diligently to support young children and their parents--the past sixteen of those as a Waldorf early childhood educator. Lori is the founder, director and lead teacher at Rafael's Garden, a therapeutic kindergarten in Colorado.

Christine Summerfield

Fiber Arts Early Childhood

Elementary grades

Cristina Drews

CRISTINA DREWS, M.S.ED.

Grade One

Cristina has been an educator since 1975 & has taught in public and private elementary & Waldorf schools, adult literacy programs, and teacher trainings. She did her Remedial Training at RSC and completed her Master's in Curriculum/Instruction, Reading & Children's Literature.

Ireneo De Leon

Ireneo de Leon

Grade Two

In 2015, Ireneo and his family moved to the United States to join the Prairie Moon Waldorf community. In the same year, he took the Waldorf teacher training course in Antioch University, New England and pursued his Masters in Education in the same institution which he completed in 2020.

Catalina De Luna Garza, M.Ed.

Catalina De Luna Garza

Grade Three

Catalina was born and raised in Mexico. She moved to the USA in 2010 with her two daughters. She has been an educator for over 30 years, 20 of those in Waldorf Schools, including Atlanta Waldorf School, as a Class Teacher as well as teaching foreign language.

Sandra Kirschner

Sandra Kirschner

Grade Four

Sandra led two classes (1-8) at Shepherd Valley Waldorf School. She is currently teaching at Shining Mountain Waldorf School.

Thesa Callinicos

Thesa Callinicos

Grade five

Thesa began her Waldorf career as a kindergarten assistant in Johannesburg, South Africa at age 18. After attending Johannesburg Teacher Training, she enrolled in Emerson College, England, for her Waldorf training. She has since been teaching in Waldorf schools in Honolulu, Boulder, Denver and Paonia. A pioneer in bringing Waldorf to Paonia, Colorado she is also a founder of the public Waldorf school, North Fork School of Integrated Studies run by the local district. Thesa has been a class teacher for 35 years. Currently, she is a mentor to teachers at NFSIS in Paonia, CO and a grade level and art instructor for Gradalis.

middle school

Karl Johnson

Karl Johnson

Grade Six
Grade Six - Eight Science

Karl David Johnson, M.A., has been an educator for 35 years and has taught in the Waldorf movement since 1986.

Vernon Dewey

Vernon Dewey

Grade Seven

Vernon moved to Hawaii in 2022. He taught for 14 years at The Denver Waldorf School, first as an assistant, then serving as a class teacher for two classes, one from grades 1-8 and another from grades 6-8. He then served as Education Director for the 2021-22 school year.

Roel Op'tende

Grade Eight

Roel began teaching in 2011 at the Rudolf Steiner College in Rotterdam. His dedication to Waldorf education transcended borders, leading him to teach at the Wasatch Waldorf Charter School in the United States. Having previously served as a social science teacher at Credo High School, Roel now holds the position of Education Director.

temporal arts & curriculum enrichment

Laurie Portocarrero

Laurie Portocarrero

Transformative Arts

Laurie Portocarrero brings teachers a transformative artistic experience to develop themselves and free the imagination and ability to live into stories with movement, speech and fun in community with other teachers.

Andrea Pronto

Andrea Pronto

Singing & Instrumental Music

At age fourteen Andrea met Anthroposophy through a Waldorf teacher who became her lifelong friend and tutor. The Anthroposophical impulse led her to study special education in Camphill, where my combined interest in the social realm, Anthroposophy and music therapy met she deepest interests.

Alice Stamm

Alice Stamm

Eurythmy

Alice has been teaching eurythmy since 1975. She began her eurythmy training in Eckwalden, Germany and finished with Else Klink in Stuttgart.

Jennie Baudhuin

Jennie Baudhuin

Grade Specific Watercolor Painting

As both a founder and teacher at Santa Fe Waldorf School, Jennie Baudhuin has dedicated her adult life to Waldorf education for over 35 years.

Thomas Baudhuin

Thomas Baudhuin

Clay Modeling & Beeswax

With over 39 years of teaching and using beeswax, plasticine, clay, wood, and alabaster, Thomas has created a developmentally appropriate curriculum for use from kindergarten through grade eight.