Inner Connections, World Transformation, and Net Positivity

Inner Change – World Change All brain can be numbing and detached.All heart can be painful and paralyzing.Thank goodness for artists, who can help us bridge between head and heart.Here’s to art of love and agency.Here’s to the art of witness and grace.Here’s to...

Makers Market Returns for Second Season

      Hawthorne Valley Farm Store is thrilled to announce the return of the monthly Makers Market for the 2023 season. The first market will be held this Saturday, May 27 from 11 am-3 pm. “Everyone really enjoyed the markets we held last fall, and we...

May Day, Service Projects, & More

Thank you to all of the families, parents, teachers, alumni, and community members that came to support the May Day Festival on Saturday, May 6th. After many dark and rainy, chilly days, it was wonderful to have the sun come out and to warm up for what proved to be a...

Remembering Madeleine “Mado” Spiegler

Mado Spiegler, a dear member of our community, passed away on March 28. Over the years, Mado was both a teacher and a parent at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School, and also worked with Hawthorne Valley Farm’s Visiting Students Program for a time. She had a love for...

Global Works: Seniors in Spain

The senior class returned from their Global Works trip to the Andalusia region of Spain, with Eileen Lee and Simon Frishkoff as their teacher chaperones. For several days everyone lived with and volunteered in the community Fundación Escuela de Solidaridad outside of...

School Festivals and Celebrations

Look To This Day Look to this day for it is lifeThe very life of lifeIn its brief course lie all the realitiesand truths of existence.The joy of growthThe splendor of actionThe glory of powerFor yesterday is but a memoryAnd tomorrow is only a visionBut today,...

Aligning Curriculum with Earth’s Rhythms

It was a boon on Thursday afternoon to have the sun shining down after several days of cold and gray. Some of the students went up to Fire Pond to investigate all of the new signs of spring. They found some lovely wildflowers and were very careful to admire them from...

Class of 2023 Senior Project Presentations

You are warmly invited to the Class of 2023 Senior Project Presentations, this Friday, April 21st at 7:00 pm and Saturday, April 22nd at 2:00 pm in the school Assembly Hall. The presentations will also be recorded for future viewing, for those who are unable to attend...

Spring, The Gift of Renewal

Now the green blade riseth, from the buried grain,Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain;Love lives again, that with the dead has been:Love is come again like wheat that springeth green.   John Macleod Campbell Crum Spring brings the gift of renewal. One...