Starlight Rays in Darkened Times 2024-2025

SEMINARS ON CONTEMPORARY TOPICS FOR WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS

Empower Yourself to Shape the Future of Waldorf Education
This online series offers a rare opportunity for Waldorf high school teachers, administrators, staff members, and parents to come together and explore a fresh round of new “hot topics” with one another as well as share the latest current observations with seasoned colleagues from CfA’s Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program (WHiSTEP).

Starlight Seminars Schedule 2024-2025
All seminars take place online on Saturdays from 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET

Fall 2024
September 14 – What Are the Developmental Tasks Facing Young People Today? with Martyn Rawson
September 21 – Diversity, Sexuality, Humanity with Sven Saar
October 19 – Why Teach Math in the Age of AI? with Marisha Plotnik
October 26 – The Inner Work of the Teacher with Alison Davis
November 9 – How the Teacher’s Biography Meets Adolescent Astrality with Betty Staley
November 23 – To Sleep — Perchance to Dream: Waldorf Education in an Age of Insomnia with Douglas Gerwin
December 7 – Towards Pedagogical Creativity: Developing the Qualities Needed to Be an Effective Waldorf Teacher with Neil Boland
December 14 – Intelligence, Artifice, and Education with Cedar Oliver

Winter 2025
January 11 – to be determined
January 25 – Conscious Innovation with Carol Bärtges
February 8 – Teaching Towards Understanding: Teaching through “Exemplary Experiences” with Jon McAlice
February 22 – Sankofa & Janus: Making Positive Progress in the Future, Retrieving the Past with David Barham