Opportunity for Equity? Deploying Waldorf Methods to Master the Common Core

• In Event: 35.055 - Caring for Mind, Body, and Heart: Holistic Practices in the Classroom

Abstract

The question of this study is as follows: When and under what conditions can teachers use Waldorf strategies to help under- performing students accelerate to master Common Core Reading Standards: Foundational Skills? If successful, how does this set of strategies resonate with the asset-focused cluster of strategies advised by education researchers Noguera and Boykin and with the core objectives of the Common Core?

Authors

• Ida Oberman, Community School for Creative Education

• Mary Barr Goral, Bellarmine University