We are excited to share that Music Teacher Carlisle Evans Peck has been chosen as one of six artists to take part in the Cedar Cultural Center’s 2022 round of commissions! The Cedar Commissions have been showcasing local emerging composers …
A Message from Our Administrative Director
The following remarks were shared by our Administrative Director, Marti Stewart, to begin our All School Meeting on Wednesday, February 2, 2022. Good evening. Thank you for joining us tonight. Tonight we’d like to share some updates and snapshots of …
In the News: Working with Your Hands Does Wonders for Your Brain
Working with our hands is enjoyable and helps ward off irritability, apathy, and depression. New research highlights the fascinating things that happen with your brain when you work with your hands. It gives your active mind a rest by engaging …
The New Smart: Educating for an Uncertain Future
With increasingly rapid changes in technology and the nature of work, employers are interested not just in intelligence and social skills, but in an employee’s adaptability quotient, or AQ–their ability to adapt to new challenges with flexibility, curiosity, problem-solving, courage, …
Alumni Spotlight: Lilian Carroll (CLWS ’03)
By Eva Mulloy (CLWS ’10), Alumni Coordinator This month we are excited to shine a light on Lilian Carroll (Fithian-Zurn), who graduated from City of Lakes Waldorf School in 2003. Earlier this fall, Lilian started Bramblebee Baby, an organic baby …
A Greener Childhood Associated with a Happier Adulthood
Recent research indicates that access to the outdoors in childhood is strongly associated with happiness, mental health, and well-being in adulthood. “The effect is remarkable,” says Kelly Lambert, a neuroscientist at the University of Richmond who studies the psychological effects …
Waldorf Schools are Media Literacy Role Models
By Soni Albright, CLWS Admissions Director and Cyber Civics Teacher This article originally appeared on the Cyber Civics blog and has been re-posted here with permission. As we celebrate Media Literacy Week 2021, it’s hard to believe that Waldorf schools …
Fundraising Update: Forging Our Future
November 23, 2021 Dear City of Lakes Waldorf School Community, Greetings! Yesterday our school celebrated a major milestone: we made the final payment on our mortgage and own our school home! We first moved into our home at 2344 Nicollet …
We Own Our Home!
Today—Monday, November 22, 2021—our school is celebrating a major milestone. Following a capital campaign and with a substantial loan from RSF Social Finance, City of Lakes Waldorf School purchased our historic building in 1999. We moved into our permanent …
Fostering the Power of Imagination
To solve the environmental crisis, or any of the other ecological, economic, social and political crises we face, we need to foster the power of imagination in education. Future generations need to be able to imagine a different world. They …