Westside Waldorf School Daycare

Working out of the principles of Waldorf Education, the Westside Waldorf School offers students an education that embraces the academic, the artistic, and the practical. Our mission is to engage the mind, ignite the imagination, and strengthen the will of each student. We strive to achieve these goals by bringing to our students a developmentally appropriate curriculum through artful teaching that promotes independent thinking, individual initiative, and social responsibility while cultivating a thirst for knowledge and lifelong learning. Waldorf education seeks to awaken the true potential of the human being's uniqueness and creativity in thought and expression and strives to be in partnership with families in raising confident, compassionate human beings. Waldorf education balances academic rigor with artistic and practical disciplines to cultivate self-confident, motivated, creative and independent thinkers. The critical value of te Waldorf approach is not what is taught, but when and how it is taught. At the heart of the approach is the idea that the gifts of childhood must be valued and protected.