Voted Best School in the Berkshires for the seventh consecutive year, Berkshire Waldorf School provides a vibrant liberal arts education for toddlers through 8th grade. Join families from Berkshire, Columbia and northern Litchfield counties as we celebrate the school’s 50th anniversary in 2021. Spots still available for Fall 2020!
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In honor of First Nations Day, and to begin the work of truth and reconciliation, we want to acknowledge that our school is on the traditional territory of the Muhhekunneuw (Mohican) Nation, the people of the flowing waters, whose territory originally ranged west beyond the Muhheakantuck (Hudson) River, the “river of tides,” from which they take […]
Berkshire Waldorf School is one of over 1,000 Waldorf schools, a worldwide movement of independent schools founded in 1919 by Rudolf Steiner. In accordance with Steiner’s insights into the nature of human beings and the developmental stages of childhood, the Waldorf curriculum fosters each child’s natural curiosity, presenting material to appeal to the imagination as well as to the intellect. Care is taken to balance intellectual growth with emotional growth and development of a capable will. Lessons are rooted in experience rather than presented as merely abstract concepts; a botany lesson, for example, begins not with a textbook, but with a close look at a living plant.
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35 West Plain Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230
Telephone: (413) 528-4015
Fax: (413) 240-3246
Email: info@berkshirewaldorfschool.org
Designed by Wyatt Coe and Built by Thornton Fernbacher
