FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Boulder, CO, April 16, 2024 — Shining Mountain Waldorf School (SMWS) is thrilled to announce the grand opening of its new high
Cyber Civics at Shining Mountain Waldorf School As screens and media become integral to our lives, Shining Mountain Waldorf School is at the forefront, equipping
Shaping the Future of Education with a Passion for Waldorf Pedagogy FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Boulder, CO, Sept. 7, 2023 — Shining Mountain Waldorf School, one
On Interviewing Sarah Gillis, Shining Mountain Waldorf School Class of 2012, about how Waldorf education helped her develop curiosity, creativity, and imagination to become a
By Meg Gardner, Incoming High School Director Waldorf education is meant to evolve, grow, transform, and to be relevant to the times in which we
Annabelle Boak and Violet Dempsey, Student Journalists, met with Sarah Gillis for this interview on November 14, 2022, at the CU Aerospace Engineering Building. Sarah
Release Date: 2/2/2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Boulder, Colorado – Shining Mountain Waldorf School (SMWS) announced this week that they will be building a new high
By Joshua Berman This article was originally published in The Boulder Daily Camera’s “Raised in the Rockies” Family and Parenting Guide on August 1, 2022
A Poem to My Class By Shanti Berman, 8th grade student, delivered to the Shining Mountain Waldorf School community during the Rose Ceremony, June 10,
At Shining Mountain and most other Waldorf high schools, each senior chooses an area of interest starting by the end of their junior year, finds
Louis Pastuer was a painter. Albert Einstein and Francis Arnold were both accomplished musicians. New research shows that award winning scientists, and especially Nobel Prize
Prolonged focus between our hands and raw materials encourages cognitive connections, fine-motor activity, concentration, perseverance with tasks, and a sense of pride in meaningful work. Susan
By Seb Murray, originally published in Nov. 2019 on the BBC website, Worklife 101 . As workplaces change, is it enough to be smart? Enter
High School Virtual Alumni Panel & Open House January 12, 2022, 5:30-7PM Please join us on Wednesday, January 12, for our High School Virtual Alumni
By Lori Kran, PhD, Pedagogical Director Last Monday evening Dr. Joaquin Muñoz, a professor of American Indian Studies, presented, via zoom, ideas for how our community
By Soni Albright, originally published in Oct. 2021 on the Cyber Civics website. As we celebrate Media Literacy Week 2021, it’s hard to believe that
Sarah (Levine) Gillis, Lead Space Operations Engineer at SpaceX and crew trainer for the Inspiration4 mission, graduated from Shining Mountain Waldorf High School in 2012.
By Joshua Berman In my 8th grade Spanish class, students listen to podcasts featuring musicians from the Spanish speaking world, most recently, a young Mexican
Class of 2021 high school senior, Elizabeth Wood, a student at Shining Mountain Waldorf School (SMWS), won a Gold Key Award in painting for the Colorado Region of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
Here’s an end-of-the-school-year, pre-summer gift from all of our faculty and staff. This video goes out to all our dear families—especially students and parent volunteers
June 02, 2020 SMWS Statement on Racial Injustice from the SMWS Diversity & Inclusivity Committee: • The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud
2nd edition, Spring, 2020, Boulder, CO By students in the 7th grade at Shining Mountain Waldorf School Editors: Lilla Molnar, Finneas Palazzari, Sascha Panian A
At Shining Mountain Waldorf School, an independent K-12 school in Boulder, CO, educating our children continues as faculty and staff deliver the comprehensive, experiential curriculum
“I feel like one of the really important things that you get out of a Waldorf education is curiosity—curiosity to go and learn and explore what’s out there in the world. I fell into engineering and a path that I don’t think I would have anticipated, but having an arts background where you’re bringing creativity and imagination into problem-solving, there’s a really incredible synergy between those.”
