Westside Waldorf School

We honor childhood, and this is how. These are the ideas at the center of our new website. See what else we’ve been building at weatsidewaldorf.org.

Trained Child Whisperers
Most teachers are trained to deliver a curriculum. Ours are trained to read a child. Our post-grad program requires inner work—meditation, artistic practice, self-reflection—because character matters as much as content. They don’t just teach. They embody wisdom.

Earlier Isn’t Better
Early academic pressure isn’t the advantage people think. We build curiosity, concentration, and love of learning first. It shows: our graduates outperform by high school.

Imagination Is Infrastructure
The ability to imagine what doesn’t exist yet is the most durable human skill. We practice it daily, in every subject, not just art class.

Self-Knowledge Is the Outcome
Childhood here isn’t prep for later, it’s the point. Our graduates know who they are and how to move through hard things intact.

Rigor That Transfers
Our graduates enter high school ahead—in attention, complexity, follow-through. Built deliberately, over years.

Six sweet weeks of early childhood summer camp are in the books, and our hearts are full. 💛🌿 Led by our wonderful early childhood summer teaching team, each week had its own dedicated theme with special songs, circle times, puppet shows, scavenger hunts, and, of course, many, many crafts. We loved how this summer combined classic summer fun with water play and games and long, long stretches of outdoor play time with the special Waldorf magic of stories and art and purposeful work. ✨🎨🌞 From a Gnomes and Fairies treasure hunt to Flora-dying napkins, Fauna-themed sewing projects, Ocean kaleidoscope crafts, Star and Moon mobile making, and a Butterfly puppet story—every week brought something new to wonder at, make with our hands, and carry home in our imaginations. 🧵🌊🦋