One of the best scientific predictors for how a child turns out, in terms of happiness, academic success, and meaningful relationships, is whether adults in their life consistently show up for them. Our teachers strive to see and recognize each of their students, greeting them each morning individually, and working with them over multiple years to build on their unique strengths and meet their individual challenges so that they can thrive.
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This special tradition at Cedarwood is a way for rising first graders to summon the courage and strength they’ve been building in kindergarten and cross over the bridge into the elementary school.
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Our incredible team of subject teachers and student ambassadors share what school is like when the whole child is engaged each day, head, heart & hands!
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We checked in with teachers, staff, parents & students to see how the past year of learning, connecting and growing together at Cedarwood has gone!
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Cedarwood parents Faith Kord and Hameed Noei have set up a beautiful Haft-Seen table to share this special celebration with our community!
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Now that we are almost to a full year of distance learning — and halfway through our 2020-21 school year of Connected Learning 2.0 — we thought we’d check in with a few teachers throughout the school and see how things are going!
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Now that we are several months into a new school year of distance learning, we thought we’d check in with a few teachers throughout the school and see how things are going!
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As we all experience our beloved school festivals in different ways this year, recreating some of these rituals and celebrations in peg doll form has been a way to remember the joys of years past, and consider the present in a lighthearted way.
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Grade 8 launched the new school year by creating art inspired by the Pacific Northwest.
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There may not be a more relevant story for our eighth graders to tackle than the fantastical tale about the concept of time and how it is used — and misused — by modern humans.
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This warming lentil soup is nourishing, flavorful, vegan & gluten-free, and simple to make (we’re busy working parents, too!).
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Thank you for helping us make magic at Winter Faire!
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This year, we brought the light of our Martinmas Lantern Walk to our very own Lair Hill neighborhood.
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In the Community Study Group, parents, grandparents, and friends have sat together and thought on the children, our own lives (past, present, and future), on education, and aspects of being human in today’s world and more.
The space we weave with our own thoughts and interests in each other leaves us feeling more connected and ready to start our week.
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It took courage to start the first Waldorf school 100 years ago, and it takes courage to continue to build on this legacy around the world. Cedarwood is pleased to participate in this worldwide celebration and to open doors of its Art Hall to the greater Portland community.
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This community soup is nourishing, flavorful, vegan & gluten-free, and simple to make (we’re busy working parents, too!).
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In honor of Cedarwood’s upcoming celebration of Diwali, several community members share sweet recipes to mark the festival!
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It is truly an amazing age we live in when our twelve and thirteen year-olds can experience what it was like to ply the seas in a hundred year-old sailing vessel!
The seventh grade had the great fortune to spend three September days aboard The Adventuress, a teaching ship operated out of Port Townsend, Washington, at the start of the new school year. The trip was not a typical one, but neither are Cedarwood’s seventh graders typical students.
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While still one of the youngest Waldorf schools in the country, Cedarwood already enjoys a well-deserved national reputation for offering a most innovative Waldorf education to its students, both inspiring and supported by its vibrant community of parents, faculty, staff, and children.
Consistent with this tradition for innovation — and its broader mission to bring other Waldorf-inspired initiatives to the greater Portland community — the school has opened its space to host The Art Hall, a gallery designed to showcase art inspired by anthroposophy, the initiative that gave rise to Waldorf education.
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