Mountain Laurel Waldorf School

Inspired Learning

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Tree & Wreath Pre-Sales

The Sixth Grade class is happy to once again, offer fragrant fresh cut trees and wreaths for the Holiday season. This year we are providing an early pick-up option for Thanksgiving week beginning on … Read More »

MLWS Open House – Nov. 17th

Mountain Laurel Waldorf School Open House Join us for an all-school open house on Saturday, Nov. 17th, from 10am - noon. Meet teachers from the grades classrooms, see children's work, and … Read More »

The Gift of Play

I continue to be amazed by young children, their wonder and joy for life is infectious. However, they are still just landing and growing so rapidly. Four years of life go quickly for us as adults and … Read More »

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Thank you for your interest in Mountain Laurel Waldorf School. We are part of a growing worldwide association of schools dedicated to bringing forth the full creative potential of each child.

Waldorf education speaks directly to children’s experience, addressing each of the three different ways we relate to the world: through the intellect, the emotions, and the will — the ability to get things done.

The Waldorf approach also recognizes that children have distinct, age-related educational needs according to their particular stages of development. Our goal is that our students meet life’s challenges with clear thinking, balanced emotions, and self-initiative.

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Waldorf Education

Those in the public school reform movement have some important things to learn from what Waldorf educators have been doing for many years. It is an enormously impressive effort toward quality education, and schools would be advised to familiarize themselves with the basic assumptions that under gird the Waldorf movement. Art as it helps to reveal the use of language, art as it can be revealed in numbers, and certainly in nature.

— Ernest Boyer, former president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

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Waldorf 100: Celebrating 100 Years of Waldorf Education Around The World

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Inspired Learning

Mountain Laurel Waldorf School strives to build the foundation of a free human being.

Guided by the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, our teachers inspire independent and insightful thinking; empathy for all beings; and a love of meaningful work.

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Mountain Laurel Waldorf School

16 South Chestnut Street
New Paltz, NY 12561
(845) 255-0033