The first offering is a fascinating film series with discussion panels, offered over the course of five weeks. Please join us at the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Nyack, New York. We hope you will partake in all five screenings and bring your insights and questions. You will glean from the series how a holistic education is vital to serve and meet the needs of young people today. All films are appropriate for ages 8 and up. We request a donation of twenty dollars for each film and its ensuing conversation and, if you would like to attend all five, eighty-five dollars. To donate ahead of time click here. The list of screenings and further info is in the flyer below.

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Parents Embrace Documentary on Pressures of School

December 15, 2010

By Trip Gabriel in The New York Times It isn’t often that a third of a movie audience sticks around to discuss its message, but that is the effect of “Race to Nowhere,” a look at the downside of childhoods spent on résumé-building. “How do you help your children balance when the whole education system [...]

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Students Feel Like They’re In a “Race to Nowhere”

December 15, 2010

By Bob Sweeney (The writer lives in Ossining and is a guidance counselor at Mamaroneck High School) in The Journal News “You have to be smart, but also you have to be pretty and also you have to do sports and you have to be involved in the arts, and you have to find something [...]

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Follow-Up Discussion for Race to Nowhere

October 29, 2010

On Tuesday, October 26th, over 200 people viewed the documentary Race to Nowhere at the Green Meadow Waldorf School.  Race to Nowhere points to the silent epidemic: · cheating has become commonplace; · students have become disengaged; · stress-related illness, depression and burnout are rampant, at times to the point of suicide; · young people [...]

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Why Education Reform?

October 29, 2010

There is a prevailing assumption that nothing can be done to overcome the challenges facing the education of children in the United States.  Inaction can be justified with statements such as: “economic forces are too powerful;” “the government does not support new paradigms;” “circumstances have already gone too far to change them.”  In reality, the [...]

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Introduction to Wellspring Living Arts

September 14, 2010

Introduction to Wellspring Living Arts: Social Change through Environmental Waldorf-Inspired Education by Katie Ketchum We live in a world dominated by competition and the ever-increasing drive to consume, where we are rapidly losing the art of community-building and creativity. Wellspring Living Arts is an initiative that seeks to combat against this impulse through the development [...]

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Beginning

September 13, 2010

My theme for today is beginning. It seemed apt for both the blog and myself as I have recently moved to Chestnut Ridge and am very new at Wellspring. To this end, I would like to start with a quote from Goethe. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has [...]

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