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Welcome to the Simply Waldorf Blog
Our article and videos highlight a variety of tips and guidelines for implementing a Waldorf Curriculum whether for homeschool, charter, or private school including what is a main lesson and main lesson block, balancing form and freedom, the importance of story in Waldorf, and the four temperaments.
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Rev Bowen
Jul 1, 20226 min read
Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson: Story
This is the fifth part of a series of articles dedicated to exploring the Waldorf main lesson as a whole and its four primary component...
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Rev Bowen
Jun 22, 20224 min read
Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson: New-Do
Next In Main Lesson Series: Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson: Story This is the fourth part of a series of articles dedicated to...
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Rev Bowen
Jun 15, 20229 min read
Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson: Review
Next In Main Lesson Series: Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson: New-Do This is the third part of a series of articles dedicated to...
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Rev Bowen
May 27, 20225 min read
Waldorf Education - Understanding the Main Lesson:"Circle"
Next In Main Lesson Series: Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson: Review In the last article, we did a survey of the four primary parts...
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Rev Bowen
Apr 15, 202210 min read
Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson and its Component Parts
Next In Main Lesson Series: Waldorf Education - Understanding the Main Lesson:"Circle" In the last newsletter, we explored the seven-year...
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Rev Bowen
Mar 18, 202210 min read
Waldorf Main Lesson: Understanding Hands, Heart, and Head
Next In Main Lesson Series: Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson and its Component Parts One of the more distinctive aspects of...
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Rev Bowen
Feb 12, 20227 min read
The Three-Day Rhythm for Main Lessons
In Waldorf Education, grades one through eight, teachers usually design the school day with a main lesson, followed by several subject...
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Rev Bowen
Jan 15, 20226 min read
Why the Gesture is an Essential Element of Storytelling
Throughout nature, we find communication. Communication is the ability to impart or exchange information and this is done in myriad ways...
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Rev Bowen
Jan 10, 202211 min read
The Waldorf Temperaments
During the Middle Ages, scholars and doctors referred to something called "the humors" to classify four tendencies they could see in...
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Rev Bowen
Dec 10, 20217 min read
Weeding: The Waldorf Path To Dealing With Polarization
When Spring returns and the plants are growing with such tremendous forces, such urgency and vigor, I always find my thoughts...
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Rev Bowen
Dec 10, 20219 min read
"Plan and Meander"
If you are new to Waldorf education and/or you want to learn more about the deeper principles at work within it, then the following...
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Rev Bowen
Dec 10, 20216 min read
Explanation and Imagination
If you are new to Waldorf education and/or you want to learn more about the deeper principles at work within it, then the following...
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Rev Bowen
Dec 9, 20218 min read
Habits Win
The most fundamental principle of Waldorf Education is that the educator (parent and/or teacher) is informed by an insightful...
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