News & Stories

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 […]

Ben’s journey through the Kingdom of Childhood

January 5, 2016

We are the proud parents of Benjamin, a 15 year old rising ninth grader at Camphill Special School. For the past eleven years we have watched him grow up at Beaver Run, becoming a young teenager poised to embark on his high school years. After Ben’s birth and Down Syndrome diagnosis, we followed conventional early intervention […]

Parent Workshop: Transition Planning

December 20, 2015

The question of life after Camphill Special School is always on everyone’s minds, so we are offering a Parent Workshop on this theme at the Transition Program at Beaver Farm on Wednesday, January 20th, at 7 pm. Our workshop will be led by Michele Leahy, of M. Leahy & Associates, and Lori Leathers, of the […]

Emerging Adults

December 15, 2015

Beaver Run’s Children’s Village is, in essence, an exploratory experience. As students reach adolescence, they are allowed the space to “play” with different roles, different ways of being a person. Do they want to be a student in classroom? Do they want to be an actor, artist, or musician? Do they want to be farmer […]

Why Joseph and Vivian are participating in #GivingTuesday CSS

November 30, 2015

Joseph and Vivian, parents of Joseph, a student at Camphill Special School, shares why they choses to participate in ‪#‎GivingTuesdayCSS: Our son Joseph just started his first year at Camphill Special School. Joseph is 13 years old and has Fragile X Syndrome. Prior to this he attended the public school system in his younger years. As […]

Why Amy and Bill are Participating in #GivingTuesday CSS

November 25, 2015

Amy and Bill Hagner, parents of Jack, grade three, shares why they choose to participate in #GivingTuesdayCSS: When we drive up to Camphill in the mornings, Jack is always smiling. He leans forward in the back seat and peers intently out his window as we drive through the Children’s Village. When we pass his house, Antanor, he takes […]

#Action4Botton Update

November 25, 2015

All Party Support Gained for the Preservation of the Vocational Volunteer Co-worker Model at Botton Village “This House notes that until recently, Botton Village, a Camphill Community of 60 years’ standing, offered a shared way of life for learning-disabled adults alongside volunteer co-workers, living as equals, sharing home, work, culture and recreation;…. / and concludes […]

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