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Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Teaching
Emerson Waldorf School Mission: We provide a Pre-K-12 grade education based on the insights of Rudolf Steiner that inspires our students to become independent and creative thinkers who are collaborative leaders in social and environmental justice. Emerson Waldorf School Vision: Our graduates are life-long learners who are committed to the service of others and the Continue reading
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What Must Remain Human: The Epistemological Fault Lines Between Artificial Intelligence and Education
Artificial intelligence did not arrive in education with a single revolution. It crept in. Quietly. One tool at a time. Drafting essays. Summarizing readings. Writing exam questions. Generating lesson plans. Answering student questions with startling confidence and speed. Much of the pedagogical conversation has understandably focused on questions of utility and control: How do we Continue reading
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Education: the inter-becoming of subjects
“The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects” – Thomas Berry Even with the advent of AI, I still come across the dated idea that human education is about teaching people things. Instruction has its place, of course, in the context of human learning as a whole. But instruction must be Continue reading
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Rainbows Are Nowhere Away
Our final 12th grade physics block, Visual Physics, ends up being as much a course in philosophy of science as a study of optics. A favorite experience is when we take a hose with a spray-nozzle, go outside on a sunny morning, make rainbows, and discover they transcend the idea of distance. If you try Continue reading
Morphogenesis 