Connecting current events, social and emotional learning, technology, and art, Dirk Tiede, our Cyber Civics teacher and accomplished artist, created beautiful comic book panels to accompany a recent lesson on cyberbullying. In every bullying situation, there are three...
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions, is being...
As part of the Sixth Grade Language Arts class, students wrote about their recent experience attending the Boston Climate Strike on Friday, September 20, where an estimated nine to 10 thousand people converged on City Hall Plaza. This exercise served as a warm-up to a...
“The Waldorf School’s Cyber Civics program uncovers the complexities of computer use in the modern age. This class, creatively guided by Dirk Tiede, has given my daughter the rare moment to contemplate the power, potential, and pitfalls of this technology....
By Dirk Tiede, Cyber Civics Teacher In early September I attended the “Humanity + Tech” conference at the MIT Media Lab. It featured Joi Ito, the director of the Media Lab, Glen Murphy, the head of user experience at Google, and even Bo Burnham, the director of the...
A language arts curriculum generally focuses on words—reading words, writing words, speaking words and listening to words. Words are powerful, mystical, and musical. They evoke strong feelings and can paint beautiful pictures. Rudolf Steiner says that “our task is to...
