Author: Dianne McGaunn

The recent surge in online learning both before and after the Coronavirus crisis has brought into sharp focus the reality of students using computers for many hours and for many things, including the advancement of their education and learning. Whether or not we agree with students using computers for learning, the reality of our current [...]

Less than two months ago, the education system here in the US was thrown into disarray. School districts and teachers scrambled to conduct online learning, and many of the previously “hot” issues, such as technology in the classroom and how to best serve students with learning differences, came to the fore, demanding to be addressed.  [...]

In these challenging times of the coronavirus pandemic, teachers are forced to come to new and different ways of teaching and meeting the needs of their students and the families they serve. For most of us, this is a very difficult task, as we are bound by what the schools are telling us we must [...]

Early Literacy Learning in Waldorf Education: How Reading, Writing, Literature, and Languages is Taught in a Waldorf Education (Originally posted at https://blog.waldorfmoraine.org/2019/07/early-literacy-learning-in-waldorf-education/ ) By Dianne McGaunn and Kat Marsh The Waldorf approach to literacy is unique in two very important ways. First, Waldorf education builds a foundation for literacy learning through attention to the physical [...]

Our duty as educators is to keep our students in love with the world, ultimately for their entire lives. - Dianne McGaunn Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. - C.S. Lewis ...For even the wisest can learn incalculably much from children. - Rudolf Steiner [...]