so I started out in
mainstream for 10 years and I was
feeling the air get like sucked
out of me when I discovered that Juniper
Ridge was accessible here in the valley
I started looking into Waldorf and fell in
love with it and
it's going to carry
them through the rest of our lives and make him successful
Stewart in our future generation we do want
them to be different we want them to be creative we
want them to go out and for teachers to just be
blown away that these children can just create I
don't have to be kind of like pushed around her
guided you know the entire day
that they can give them something in a child will
do it on their own or will will have those
passages to just be more than
what some educators
are expecting children to be think the misconception
is that we don't have successful
learning happening at our school and in
fact we do if we just look at
more than that intellectual paper-based
or computer-based age to determine
what it means to be a successful child I
think the Waldorf method is
unique to each and every individual
it's something that brings about this
place of selfhood and
experience is
their success
and the numbers that they can back that
with 94% of all their students
go on to college and of those 88%
graduate genuinely
making a connection
with the students year after
year after year and being able to meet
them at their at their
needs being able to even Truly find out
what their needs are and then
overtime and
connection we can really make a
difference the word is getting out in the community about
what we're doing here at Juniper Ridge that it is
something different from the mainstream d51
curriculum but is also a value-added
service to what district 50
I was trying to accomplish with her kids you can have kids
graduate be successful in high school and move
on to college but also show that that
could be done within a framework of compassion
of caring and loving every
time when I come home and turns out to be what I do
and I've learned a lot of fun stuff that they have it
so everyday lost me what did you learn
today what did you do today and so I would
tell them and they just be in awe and
jealous they said multiple times that they
would like to come to my school and actual
go back into their younger years and come
to the school what I hope for is
that our community at
large the Grand Valley sees
this school as a gift and the
fact that we have a wall.
inspired school to offer to our community
at large is something that is
only going to benefit everyone