AHWS Alumna awarded Rhodes Scholarship. Bruce Nicol writes a few words about his daughter’s recent achievement.
“I can say a few words about what Rosanna might have taken with her from her time at the AHWS, both is terms of her immersion in Waldorf Education, and the time she spent with her teachers.
The Rhodes Scholarship is awarded on four attributes: academic excellence, natural leadership
ability, athletic ability, and an instinctive desire to help the weak and downtrodden. There is an
obvious …

Recently in the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star, there have been a series of articles focusing on boys and education. A Grade 6 AHWS parent takes a look at what they are saying and what her son is receiving at AHWS:
Canada’s largest school board recommends “boy-friendly” instruction such as hand-on learning and movement for boys. However, all students need these qualities in education. Alan Howard Waldorf School teachers use an integrated curriculum practised since 1918 and addressing different learning …

Review of Atkinson Series “Brainstorm” – Toronto Star, Saturday, November 07, 2009, p. L1 Story by Alanna Mitchell.
The series is based upon the results of a year long fellowship aimed at investigating the controversial push to use brain sciences to improve education.
Allison Hudgins delves into the series and sees how Waldorf Education holds up to ‘Brain Science’.
“This is the essence of neuroeducation: an openness to let the brain grow as it needs to, fuelled by jubilation at …