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The Washington Waldorf School is a private K-12 school in
Bethesda, Maryland Bethesda () is an unincorporated, census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland. It is located just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in ...
, just north of
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, on a 6-acre campus the school rents from Montgomery County. As a
Waldorf school Waldorf education, also known as Steiner education, is based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. Its educational style is holistic, intended to develop pupils' intellectual, artistic, and practical skil ...
, the curriculum is based on the educational philosophy of
Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a ...
. Washington Waldorf School is one of over 1000 Waldorf schools worldwide and 150 Waldorf schools in North America. The school has one of the few outdoor kindergarten programs in the Washington, D.C., area.


History

The Washington Waldorf School was founded initially as a grade school in 1969 in Washington, D.C., and in 1982 moved to its current six-acre campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The high school was added in 1984 and graduated its first 12th grade in 1988.Washington Waldorf School: About Us
Accessed 2009-04-17. The school is accredited by
Association of Independent Maryland and DC Schools The Association of Independent Maryland and DC Schools is an American nonprofit education organization representing 120 independent schools in the US state of Maryland and the District of Columbia. Based in Glen Burnie, Maryland, it was founded in ...
and th
Association of Waldorf Schools of North America
The school's sports teams (baseball, basketball, cross country, soccer, softball, and swimming) compete in the
Potomac Valley Athletic Conference Formed in 1979, the Potomac Valley Athletic Conference is a group of independent schools in the Washington metropolitan area who compete against each other in interscholastic athletics. The conference comprises small independent schools from Maryl ...
.Mitch Rubin, Jeff Seidel
Washington Waldorf goes back-to-back
''The Washington Post'', May 3, 1999. Accessed 2009-04-17. The school mascot is the Red-Tailed Hawks.


See also

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Curriculum of the Waldorf schools In the curriculum of the Waldorf schools, much of the education in academic subjects takes place in blocks, generally of 3–5 weeks duration. Each pupil generally writes and illustrates a self-created textbook representing the material learned ...


References


External links


Official web site

The Waldorf Method
''The Washington Times'', June 1, 2003. Accessed 2009-04-19. Waldorf schools in the United States Private K-12 schools in Montgomery County, Maryland Schools in Bethesda, Maryland {{Maryland-school-stub