Seventeen years ago, a group of recent UC Davis graduates living in Sacramento, learned that the Gardenland Northgate neighborhood of Sacramento, an area with one of the lowest average family incomes, had one of the highest concentrations of children in the Sacramento area. Knowing this, the group initiated safe and …
College Application Essay by Chris Olson, 12th Grade Setting bow to string, I begin to play Bach’s Prelude in G Major on a cello I made myself. My fingers move swiftly through the notes. I look up and survey the assembled crowd, watching me and my box cello, carefully built …
College Application Essay Minh Thuc Tran, 12th Grade Student For me, “Chicken Nut Bread” are the most profound words in the English language. In my first year in the U.S., I attended boarding school in Pennsylvania, a drastic change for someone from Vietnam. I will never forget my ESL instructor, …
Student-Teacher Relationships In a recent opinion piece entitled “Students Learn From People They Love,” New York Times columnist David Brooks discusses the crucial role the quality of student-teacher relationships plays in learning. Citing research that shows the importance of relationships for learning outcomes, he bemoans the lack of emphasis on emotional …
“Community” Commencement Speech to SWS Class of 2012 By James Meier The Class of 2012. My, oh my! What thrills you have given us. What mysteries you have unfolded before our eyes. What memories you have made for us. You are a force to be marveled at, and at times, …
The Arden-Carmichael News featured SacWaldorf High School’s spring musical Mamma Mia!, on the front page of their March 15th edition. Read more about how this musical builds lasting relationships among our high school students.
“In some ways, writing a memoir is knocking yourself out with your own fist, if it’s done right. Sure, there’s the pleasure of doing work guaranteed to engage you emotionally — who’s indifferent to their own history? The form always has profound psychological consequences on its author. It can’t not. What project …
No one put it better than Naomi Harper, Science NGSS Educator of Will Rogers Middle School, when she thanked Sacramento Waldorf School for “being a bastion of strength and educational excellence in our community.” Ms. Harper was one of many who attended the “Anne Frank – A History for Today” exhibition …
