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Giving Tuesday 2022

Donate on Tuesday, November 29th, 2022, to create transformative educational opportunities for The Camphill School students. Join together with the Camphill community by making your gift on this national day of giving…

The Three Essentials: Our Work Takes Root

In 1965, Karl Koenig wrote an essay known as “The Three Essentials” of Camphill. Koenig’s “three essentials” were his attempt to articulate that special “something” that made Camphill different from other schools and boarding homes for children with special needs…

Intention and Meaning

Driving down Children’s Village Lane, you enter a village with many homes, with many people. Our children are not at home within themselves, but here they find an outer home as they live with others and others live with them…

A Center Focus: Blackboard drawings

Visitors to our school always comment on the blackboard drawings. They often ask, “Who DID this?!” in wonderment at the beauty and skill expressed in each classroom. They often may puzzle at the reason behind such a practice…

More than Just a School: Eight Decades of Utopian Research

The Camphill School is a small piece of the larger Camphill Movement, which was founded by Dr. Karl Koenig in World War II. Dr. Koenig and his friends were refugees fleeing Nazi occupied Austria, and when they began their work in Scotland in 1940…

Engaging The Will: Main Lesson Books

A distinguishing feature of Waldorf® education is the Main Lesson block: a daily ninety-minute period devoted to a particular subject for three to four weeks. Components of the lesson consist not only of listening to subject material but also active participation…

To Be A Better Teacher

Every teacher values the individual contributions that each student brings to the class - love of learning, making others feel appreciated, artistic or musical gifts, being able to persevere with tasks, or enjoying the stories the teacher is telling…