News & Stories

The gala is almost here!

May 27, 2016

If you haven’t already, now is the time to purchase your admission for the big night. Take a look at our auction items, check you schedule and coordinate with friends- you could be the high bidder on a trip to an incredible destination! Set your sights on beautiful tile art made by the Transition Program […]

Camphill appreciates our incredible volunteers

April is Volunteer Appreciation Month!

April 25, 2016

We are thankful for our dedicated volunteer groups who have done so much for the school: Alternative Spring Break at VCU Camphill Special School’s Board of Directors Community Landwork Day participants Fundacja Primus Foundation Stone School, Taiwan Gala and Village Racquet ProAm Committee Green Meadow Waldorf School Vanguard Washington Waldorf School And we appreciate our […]

The magic of a single continuous thread

April 18, 2016

Everyone admires the results of Camphill Special School’s handwork curriculum: student woodworking, weaving, and felting projects always are hugely popular items at our ProAm Gala silent auction. But why is handwork, and particularly knitting, an important part of a Camphill education? Eugene Schwartz is a Fellow of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education and an […]

Happiness is All That Matters

March 30, 2016

Five years ago, on Cassidy’s first day at Camphill, we never dreamt she would have accomplished as much as she has or thought that we would have such tenderness in our hearts and appreciation for this magical place! We turned to Camphill at a time when we were feeling lost. Cassidy’s current school was no […]

A Children’s Village the size of a continent

March 21, 2016

In his address for the fourteenth anniversary of Camphill Special School at Beaver Run, Carlo Pietzner spoke about his imagination of a ‘Children’s Village’. He envisioned this community as “a village for the child, for the purposes necessary to give space to the child. The child as such.” It was to become “an island for […]

Room for more

March 18, 2016

There was a Farm in the County of Chester ‘Twas a place of peace and plenty And in it there lived together House parents and students twenty. And when new students came knocking They sang, “There’ll be room galore: We’ll make room for you who are flocking And perhaps even a few more!” The Farmers, […]

How to imbue life

March 14, 2016

Every year as we welcome new coworkers into our village, one of the first aspects they learn is how we live as a community and strive towards recognizing each individual in our care as a whole human being. Therefore we need to explore how we approach a student, how we are with a student, and […]

BBC Radio Scotland highlights Camphill’s story

March 4, 2016

We’re happy to share that Camphill Scotland was featured on BBC Radio Scotland’s “Our Story” program. The ‘Our Story’ series is about the distinctive past of the North East of Scotland. It seeks to bring the past to life with eye witness accounts. The interview features Marianne Gorge, who met Karl König in June 1942 and arrived […]

A truly remarkable realm

February 22, 2016

I would propose that one who works with his hands and his head and his heart is also a Waldorf student. Our students at Beaver Run receive a Waldorf education that draws forth the true artist in each and every student. Since students with special needs receive educational funding through their 21st year, we at […]

Doing good for others

February 18, 2016

In a recent student council meeting the elected members decided they wanted to help families that are in need of food. They began by brainstorming ideas of how this could be accomplished. In the end they decided the best way was to reach out beyond the doors of Beaver Run as well as within the community with […]

Economy for the Common Good Report

February 17, 2016

The Common Good Report is a comprehensive documentation of how well a company lives up to the values described in the 17 indicators of the Common Good Matrix. Camphill Special School was the first organization in the U.S. to receive a certified Common Good Balance Sheet. Economy for the Common Good Podcast: Humanizing Economics with the […]

Therapy and the young child

February 15, 2016

The young child is wide open to the world – everything and everyone he encounters are taken in and literally make an impression on him, right into his little body and his organs. Just watch a baby at his mother’s breast – he tastes the milk in his whole body, even his tiny toes are […]

Making the Old Young Again: Play, Imagination and the Ability to Re-Create the World

February 1, 2016

Many stories from cultures all around the world speak of a heavenly child, a playful divine being that comes down to Earth, bringing with it the warmth and light of the Sun, in order to bring new life to everything that has become solid and hard, cold, sclerotic and dark. From Thailand, we know of […]

What better teachers than our children?

January 19, 2016

When the teaching faculty decided that I could take charge of the first grade class in the fall of 2014, I had just re-entered the world of the younger child. My wife and I had our hands full with our infant son Albert, who loves to watch the other children play, and loudly insists upon […]

Peace and Joy

January 15, 2016

Before Camphill there was a public middle school with a bus that came at the ungodly hour of 6:30a.m. to take him clear across town to school. When he got there he had to entertain himself without being able to join the breakfast line because he wasn’t a free and reduced lunch eligible child. I […]

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