Brooklyn Waldorf School

Founded in 2005, Brooklyn Waldorf School began with two early childhood classrooms and expanded to include Parent-Child programs, elementary classes, and middle school. The school offers a developmentally appropriate Waldorf education based on Rudolf Steiner's pedagogic principles. Its curriculum integrates academic learning with the arts, emotional intelligence, and physical knowledge of the world. Students engage in hands-on learning and study language arts, history, science, mathematics, choral and orchestral music, and Mandarin. The school also emphasizes connections with the natural world and traditions and mythologies of global cultures. Its home is Claver Castle in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where the school has been based since 2011. Short and long-term learning are supported by a community of students, families, and educators.