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“Finding solutions demands human capability in fields we have barely begun to understand. Today an education is needed which enables children to unfold faculties, which go beyond mere tradition or the conventional wisdom of our times. Waldorf education seeks to do this. It seeks to participate in the development of human beings who will become initiators of cultural progress.”
—Friende der Erziehungskunst Rudolf Steiners, Waldorf Education, Exhibition Catalogue on the Occasion of the 44th Session of the

Open House Events

Open houses are held on Saturdays from 10:00am until 12:30 pm at the High School campus located at 21050 McClellan Road in Cupertino.

Open House Schedule:
October 20, 2007
November 17, 2007
December 8, 2007
April 12, 2008

All events will include sample lessons and a Q&A. Enrollment applications will be available. All middle school students and their parents are encouraged to attend.

Please RSVP to 408-863-0132 or email highschool@waldorfpeninsula.org

 

Upcoming Lectures

October 19, 2007- Douglas Gerwin Ph.D

7:00pm-9:00pm

Involution and Evolution:
How the High School Builds on the Lower School

The transition from elementary to high school can be compared to the metamorphosis of leaf into blossom. What was hidden becomes manifest; what was potential becomes actual. And what was approached in the lower school through the more dreamy life of feeling and fantasy in the high school is treated with the increasingly wakeful life of thinking. 

Out of the powers of imagination, so lovingly cultivated in the lower school up to eighth grade, begin to arise in ninth grade those more dispassionate abilities to weigh, to assess, and to arrive at truth.

Douglas will be answering questions like:
How does the Lower School curriculum dovetail into the High School curriculum?, and
How is one the involution of the other?

Parents of all grades are encouraged to attend.
Please rsvp to the office.

Past Lectures

Douglas Gerwin Ph.D - Waldorf High School Graduates: What are they doing, thinking and feeling today?-

Click here to view the powerpoint presentation from this lecture.

 

Douglas Gerwin, Ph.D - Moral Development in Teenagers-

Click here for a summary of this lecture.

 

Press

Press release December 12, 2006
WSPHS Newsletter March 9,2007
Los Altos Town Crier, March 21, 2007
WSPHS Newsletter April 6, 2007
WSPHS Newsletter May 11, 2007
WSPHS Newsletter July 21, 2007
WSPHS Newsletter August 20, 2007
Cupertino Courier, September 12, 2007

Awards

On March 8, 2007, this website won a "Dottie" award in the education category.  Congratulations to Sara Raffo (WSP, 1996) at Twin Theory Design for creating this beautiful site.  Specials thanks to Evan Winslow Smith for contributing his creative expertise in design, graphic art and photography to this effort.

Message to the Community

Waldorf School of the Peninsula in Los Altos, California, is beginning our high school with a 9th grade class in the fall of 2007. There is tremendous excitement and momentum at our school. We are proceeding with faculty recruitment, securing a site, enrollment outreach, fundraising and other key steps to prepare for receiving our first class next year.

WSP high school will offer a multi-dimensional curriculum, in which subject areas are taught through presentation, discussion, reflection, and experimentation. These subjects will be brought to life through the fine and practical arts.

Our high school curriculum and community life aim to address the emerging needs of adolescents, and foster the development of young people who will be creative and independent thinkers, innovative and ethical leaders, confident artists, and responsible world citizens.

Waldorf high school graduates have an established reputation for critical, analytical, and imaginative thinking capacities and are highly sought after by leading colleges and universities throughout the country.