Teaching as an Art
Grade Level Preparation and School Leadership Institute
June 22 -27, 2025
Boulder, CO
Cohorts include ECE, Grades 1- 8 and Specialty Teachers; including Music, Games, and School Leadership.
New Foreign Language Training begins next summer (Including Mandarin)
Begins Sunday 4pm for Registration (Pick up grade-level packets & name tag lanyards) followed by Performance with Laurie Portcarrero, Transformative Arts instructor, who will teach all grades during TAA week. Experience imaginative storytelling: the essential element of Waldorf instruction. M-F this week is filled with practical preparation for teaching your grade level or subject. Offerings include grade level arts, science, music, and main lesson content and the elements of planning a Waldorf lesson and day. Ends Friday at 12:00 pm MT.
Introduction to the School of Spiritual Science & the Pedagogical Section Meeting Monday 4:45 pm for those interested in anthroposophically informed tasks of the world movement
Meeting of members of the Pedagogical Section Tuesday at 4:45 pm.
Cost
COST: $675 (Register on or before May 15, 2025)
(late registration after May 15th is $715)
Deadline for registering is June 10th, 2025
Location
Gradalis Teaching Campus
Shining Mountain Waldorf School
999 Violet Ave.
Boulder, CO 80304
Materials
School Leadership Institute
Each year colleagues gather from around the country for these teacher renewal courses. GRADALIS has created a School Leadership component so administrators and other school leaders can also receive inspiration, renewal and more expertise and understanding of their essential role in the Waldorf school. Join our School Leadership cohort while your teachers are preparing for the grade level they’ll be teaching next year. Meet other School leaders this summer in Boulder, Colorado, Sunday June 22nd to Friday, June 27th. GRADALIS Instructors with years of Waldorf School leadership experience will join with you in expanding your understanding of multiple topics including Financial Planning and Budgetary processes, Strategic Planning, Fundraising and School Development, Building Healthy School Culture, Three-fold Governance in a Waldorf school environment and the role of School Leadership, Human Resources, Special Education and other compliance issues. Create and build lasting connections with other administrators. Rejuvenate with some art, movement and collaborative work with others leading schools today.
Cost: $675 if registered by May 15th. $715 after May 15th. Deadline for Registration is June 10th. Possible continuation with your leadership cohort through the school year, based on conversations at the Institute.
Grade Level Preparation and Renewal Courses
Each year colleagues gather from around the country for these teacher renewal courses. Create and build lasting connections. All instructors are experienced in their subjects and within the classroom. Grade level specific preparation allows you to feel confident imparting developmentally appropriate curriculum to your students.
Class Teachers will experience the following elements of preparation for their Grade Level:
- Focus on Storytelling
- Year Overview – curriculum content and main lesson placement
- Preparation of the Annual Block Plan – bring your school’s calendar for 2025-2026
- Lesson Planning for the 4-fold lesson
- Integrating Diverse Children’s Literature and Storytelling to meet the children in your class
- Forming your class and introductory activities to start the year
- Child Development for this age children & how to meet them in the appropriate way
- Classroom Management
- Age appropriate movement, games & circle activities that keep students engaged and challenged
- Speechwork & poetry, verses for your grade level
- Science at your grade level
- Singing & instruments appropriate for the grade level– and enrichment activities to engage your students in learning)
- Skills (math & literacy) expectations for your grade level–Introduction of the Gradalis Curriculum Frameworks.
- Drawing & watercolor painting at your grade level
- Suggested Field Trips to enhance learning and build the community in your classroom
- The Class Play – ideas and grade level appropriate approaches
- Games & Movement for children at your grade level
- The soul mood required by the teacher as “loving authority” in the classroom appropriate for this grade level
- What lies behind the curriculum at this grade level–why do we teach what we teach this year
Introduction to each Main Lesson Block of the year with Content (Instructors model lessons, story-telling, poems, music) - Diversity Exploration at each grade level
Summer 2025 Schedules
These summer schedules detail coursework for each grade.
“I am deeply grateful for the exceptional quality of this course, which has significantly enriched my training as a Waldorf teacher. Your expertise and dedication are truly appreciated.” – Class Teacher Graduate
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999 Violet Ave.
Boulder, CO 80304
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