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Local Instructors, Consultants, Teaching Support
MARY LOUISE BEDARD
I offer over 35 years experience caring for children. My program includes rhythmic and seasonal activities with indoor and outdoor play, in a nurturing home setting. I am beginning my year with a small group of children. This enables me to extend an invitation to old and new acquaintances to come join in celebrating the festivals of our year. This invitation is extended to children of early childhood age(21/2 to 6), their families, and siblings. From all interested families, I will need a good two weeks notice before each festival of your intent to join us. This will help me in planning ahead as well as letting you know how you can prepare for each event.
Mrs. Bedard’s, NYState Licensed Family Daycare
Phone: 518-672-4241
LISA DAMIAN
20+ years experience with lower school and high school main lessons, specializing in life and earth science; math; handcraft and practical arts; movement therapist (Spacial Dynamics).
Email: sunsongfarm@gmail.com
ELIZABETH FRISHKOFF
Parent, movement teacher
Email: efrish@sover.net
EIREN GRAVER
Trained and xxperienced waldorf teacher offering lessons in applied and fine arts for children 7-14 and adults: handwork, watercolor painting, drawing, clay modeling, pentatonic flute and recorder, singing, nature walks, practical arts. Standard rate: $45/hour, Sliding scale or creative arrangements available based on a discussion of needs (yours and mine)
Email: eiren.kingsbury@gmail.com
215-696-9344
FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER is a wilderness school and community dedicated to mentoring children, youth, adults and families in deep connection to nature, self and others.
Website: https://flyingdeernaturecenter.org/
KITE’S NEST is a center for liberatory education in Hudson, NY. They create safe and supportive learning environments that nurture the confidence, skills, joy, and collective leadership of young people while building justice and equity in their communities.
Website: https://www.kitesnest.org
EMILY KOZAKIEWICZ
Open to various possibilities: Mixed age lower grades program (possibly grades 1-4) consisting of Waldorf and Curative Education inspired approach including developmental, therapeutic movement activities, farm and nature based seasonal outdoor activities and main lesson instruction. Also offering individual horseback riding lesson for young children or older beginners including basic horse care and grooming, basic horsemanship skills grounded in natural horsemanship and partnership, haltering, leading and groundwork and riding.
Email: emilyjane412@gmail.com
LELAND LEHRMAN
Offering high school and middle school courses: The Seven Liberal Arts of Pythagoras in the original form as: The Quadrivium: Number, Geometry, Music and Astronomy (Astrology) as well as The Trivium: Logic, Grammar, Rhetoric. Other courses include: Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Science of Technology, with intent to bestow mastery, instead of addiction. Including the ancients' view on the risks of revealing the mathematics to the mechanics. Full history of Logic and the Binary Code beginningwith the reduction of the Infinite to Logic, and proceeding through Francis Bacon and the invention of binary code, then to the use of punch cards developed for the industrial weaving industry, on to Alan Turing and the solving of the Enigma code using the first mechanical computers, ending in 1947 with the invention or receipt of the integrated circuit and its development by Bell Labs. Primary syllabus will be Gopi Krishnas Technology and the Laws of Thought.Then: computer science since the advent of the integrated circuit. Biological views of the computer, correspondence of various pieces of the computer with human being and other metaphorical ways to understand the basic input output systems (BIOS) and the logic of programming.Other lessons will include the original purpose and history of the internet, as well as the information science the makes the internet so resilient (and therefore uncensorable). An Indigenous History of the United States, told from the point of view of indigenous people, this course will focus on the difference between indigenous and modern worldviews, and lessons we can learn for the future from both cultures.Ecological EconomicsFrom the gold standard to debt slavery. Keeping in mind, with intent to refute the (in)famous saying:"The age of chivalry is over. The age of calculators and economists has begun."This course will focus on the cosmic shift from growth economics to maturity economics at the limits to growth, focusing on the political issues associated with the rise of Keynes, the countervailing Austrian school and the contributions of Herman Daly and others to the understanding of how economics can serve humanity, rather than pollute it.
Email: rll@fundbalance.com
AMELIA MCISAAC
Amelia will offer afternoon classes. She enjoys teaching fiber arts and fiber processing, plant dyeing, paper making, puppet making and creating puppet shows, botany, herbal medicine, the Wonders of Water, sewing, quilting and embroidery, and basic physics. She welcomes all ages and abilities in students.
Email: ameliafloweringheart@gmail.com
LAURIE PORTOCARRERO
Actor, storyteller, drama teacher offering: 2-4 week drama blocks for any age group to work together on a play (specialties Shakespeare, fairy tales); speech warm ups/sessions daily or several times a week; drama workshops for parents, teachers – weekly or half-day or weekend (many formats possible); in speech, movement, play, ensemble-building; work with individual students on acting, speech, movement; help creating festivals for/with the children; many many many possibilities depending on what is needed.
Email: laurieportostories@gmail.com
518 567-6766 cell
STU SUMMER
I have been a Waldorf, Curative, Nature and Farming educator for 30 years. I founded the EARTH program and before that was a class teacher at Hawthorne Valley. During those years I served in most leadership positions. I can offer mentorship, guidance, support for many aspects of education. My vision is to help bring about a network of independent educators and homeschool efforts that has the depth and richness to support children’s learning outside of the established institutions and the connectivity, mentorship and resources to sustain parents’ and teachers’ efforts. I can offer: Student/Child Assesment, Guidance for Parent’s developing their homeschool curriculum, Homeschool Coop Creation and Guidance, Teacher Guidance and Mentoring, Pedagogical Study and Advice, Instruction of Children, Grades 1-8
Email: stuart@taconic.net
518 672 7302
Hillsdale, NY
SUSANNAH WHITE
Extensive experience with all ages (early childhood to adult) and abilities, with skill building in the arts, crafts, nature study, and creative thinking. Multidisciplinary approach.
Email: carapacefarm@gmail.commail
AVERY SUMNER
I’m a Waldorf trained early childhood teacher and homeschooling parent to my six-year-old daughter. I’m open to creating a family style care situation for one or two other children. My approach is a blend of forest schooling and unschooling and is solidly founded on the Waldorf and Anthroposophical picture of human development. I’m also considering offering an Earth Parenting program for parents and children aged pre-birth to 7. This would be a fully outdoor (in all weather) program exploring deep nature connection while parenting young children. I live in Hillsdale, NY.
Email: sumneravery@protonmail.com
518-772-1677
CHRISTIAN SWENINGSEN
I taught high school physics in Waldorf schools for nine years. My special loves are demonstrations that are engaging and evocative; bringing an interest in the physical world from stories of humankind's interest and exploration through the years; and understanding the technologies that have come into our lives
In addition to "conventional" physics, with its understandings of the physical world and its technologies, I work in “Goethean” science – scientific understanding based directly in human experience.
Before coming to teaching I worked for many years in the solar heating field, installing and designing hundreds of systems. Through this I have decades of professional experience as an electrician, plumber and carpenter, and have taught classes in these.
I have a BS with a Physics concentration and a Waldorf high school teaching certificate.
I'm retired and not only seeking an income; rather, a chance to pass on the joy of discovery and understanding.
Email: csweningsen@berk.com
518 758-7347 home, 518 610-0919 cell
TALC, The Alternative Learning Center, is a homeschooling community and parent-led, learning cooperative based in Columbia County, New York.