Discover Waldorf  Education

The Highland Hall community invites you to explore Waldorf education from early childhood through high school. Waldorf education is based on the research into child development conducted by Austrian educator and philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). The Waldorf approach recognizes the simple but profound insight that children learn in distinctly different ways at different stages of their development. Waldorf schools introduce and teach in ways that correspond to the developmental needs of the growing child. Our strong academic curriculum is based on building and fostering the child’s natural capacities at each developmental stage. In classrooms full of light and life, Waldorf students learn traditional academic subjects through distinctive and time-tested teaching methods that serve their intellectual, physical, emotional and spiritual development. Engaging the hands and the heart as well as the mind cultivates a real inner enthusiasm for learning, the hallmark of a Waldorf education.

Highland Hall has been helping families raise well-balanced, multifaceted young people since 1955. A rapidly growing international educational movement that began almost 90 years ago, Waldorf education has grown to over 900 independent Waldorf schools worldwide.  Come experience the continuity of a complete and integrated curriculum which extends from early childhood through high school. Highland Hall is accredited by both the WASC and the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America.

The best way to learn more about a Highland Hall is to see it for yourself. We offer regularly scheduled school tours which provide an ideal opportunity to visit our campus, meet the teachers and best of all, see the education in action.  For more information please contact our Enrollment Director at 818-349-1394 x211.

Waldorf schools are nonsectarian. Values such as respect for self and others, universal to all religious and spiritual traditions, are upheld in the classrooms. Spiritual leaders of many cultures are studied through the history of world civilizations. The question of religion is left strictly to the family.

Highland Hall is committed to equal-opportunity education and welcomes families of all ethnic, social and religious backgrounds.

  


Meet our Alumni

Alumni Profiles - read articles about our alums -  (click here)

Interviews
Hear from alums about their experiences since leaving Highland Hall and their reflections about Waldorf education.

David White, JD Harvard Law, attorney specializing in energy (click here) Dede Lyons, Molecular & Cell Biologist, UC Berkeley (click here)
Dan Low, PhD, Director of Medical Physics, Washington Univ. (click here)

Richard Hodkinson, Aviation Entrepreneur (click here)