The change brought by Mindful Journey Academy
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In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.
-Rudolf Steiner
At Mindful Journey Academy you will find:
-Waldorf inspired
- nature exploration
-developmentally appropriate education
-experiences before explanation
-meeting individual needs
-connection and communication
-arts and theater in the curriculum
-teachers connecting with children and parents
-community
Dear parents, grandparents, teachers, and members of our society who feel that our educational system is not serving our children, or our future,
We are following the dream of Marie Hall, a mother of 6 who says there is a need for change in our children's schooling and has homeschooled her children using the Waldorf curative method. She has gained strength and friendships that support her to start a school and be the change in our community. With every dream exists the reality--- we need funds.
Let us be the start, let us be the change. Join us.
Help us teach mindfulness and connection to our community and become examples to our children.
Marie and friends
Vision
At Mindful Journey Academy we believe in teaching the whole child, developing the cognitive, social-emotional and the physical domain. At Mindful Journey Academy we are dedicated to bringing mindfulness to your child through involvement and exploration, communication, and growth in nature. We have found that children learn through experiencing science, culture, arts, history, geography, handwork, and rhythms. Our school curriculum is dynamic and diversified, offering Math, Science, humanities, and the arts. The mastery of traditional academic disciplines are interwoven with practical, engaging, and artistic activities.
In times of Covid, we offer relief to parents in the world in which we live giving them an alternative to public style education that we have found that does not serve our children us or well.
About Marie
I have been homeschooling for 19 years. I have 6 children and 3 grandchildren. After many years I found that there were many things lacking in the curriculum for both public school, private and home schools. Constantly learning and seeking I came upon Waldorf education about 9 years ago. Before that, I had attended many homeschool cooperatives in the area all over Horry County, South Carolina. I have taught at many of the various classes like cooking, worm composting, painting classes, modeling beeswax classes, herb classes, movement classes, handwork classes, history and the age-based whole curriculum. You name it and I probably have a love for it and if a child needs it, I will research and teach it or find someone else that can.
I have attended Waldorf conferences at Taproot, also at Waldorf home school conferences in Florida. I have been mentored by Melisa Nielsen of Waldorf Essentials and Seasons of Seven for the past 9 years.
I have been a trained leader with Cub Scouts as a Cubmaster for 5 years. I went to Woodbadge leadership training. I have taught Sunday school for primary children and youth in church for several years. I also have been a leader in one of the largest Women’s organization in the world, serving women of all ages and various stages of life. I have run church summer camps of 100 plus children and obtained adult leaders for them. I planned each daily activity with the youth, teaching them how to lead. I have also had summer camps for scouting and have also planned and executed large scouting events for the public. This all involves seeking and finding adult leaders, youth leaders, and youth and primary-aged children to attend. I have also handled budgets and stayed within them in all organizations. I have also run fundraisers and helped children and youth to create fundraisers for their individual projects or camps.
In 2014, I convinced six families, in the beginning, to join me as we all learn more about Waldorf education. We started a Waldorf coop in Conway, SC. We continued to grow and have had up to 26 families and 58 children at a time. We became large and we are a living entity; we change and grow as needed. We had many classes for each age group. I interviewed children and adults upon applying. I worked with many individuals. I set up schedules, guided the adults to be teachers, lead meetings, and coached parents with their curriculum. We started in a house and met once weekly for lessons for 5 to 6 hours. I sold a curriculum and became a leader with a company, Waldorf Essentials. In our coop, each family bought a curriculum from me and followed that at home. I met with and advised ways for school lesson planning for each individual family. We opened accounts and made group orders for everyone to be able to have supplies for each class. We also planned Waldorf-inspired festivals monthly, and larger events like a pentathlon, and art walk where the extended families and friends of member families were also invited.
I became a 4-H leader and ran gardening programs weekly for age groups, age 5 -8 and 9 and up. For the last seven years, I have run the Conway Waldorf homeschool cooperative.
I have also created Waldorf education homeschool conferences. Hired the instructors, planned the meals and hired staff to manage each area.
I have had a dream since I began with the Waldorf cooperative to open a Waldorf-inspired private school.
This summer I had an opportunity to make that dream come true. I helped to build hobbit houses, a teepee, and an outdoor kitchen made of bamboo, a composting toilet, and beautifully crafted handmade tables and fenced it all in using bamboo. I built an outside coop school. It was amazing. I had meetings with parents within the community until the beginning. I sought after trained teachers then hired and trained them for our school. I set up a curriculum, helped them with their planning, and organized a conference for parents and teachers. Then I set up the rhythm of the school for the teachers. I then became the teacher. We had 12 children in attendance and changed $600 monthly. We served all organic and vegan meals, sang songs, had circle time, daily rhythms that included cooking, painting, various handwork projects, gardening, and baking bread. We also enjoyed making mini-plays, told lots of stories, and had daily nature walks to the beach or the park. We also had a Hebrew teacher three times a week. In each circumstance, I have learned more and more about how to make our future school better.
I have also helped set up another Waldorf-inspired mini-school. This one had a building with indoor plumbing and live animals, chickens, bunnies, and a hamster. With each, we continued our rhythm. We learned and grew more.
We have gained support from many local families, retired Waldorf teachers, current Waldorf teachers, retired and current public and private school teachers that seek a change in the way they are able to teach, and also current and businessmen and businesswomen in the area.
We have sought Waldorf teachers and education business owners like Melisa Nielsen of Seasons of Seven, an online Waldorf school and owner of Waldorf Essentials to help to train our teachers. We have also sought and gained counsel and support from a current Waldorf teacher of 30 years who has started 2 Waldorf highs schools.
We are also looking to add support from Robyn Brown, a curative Waldorf teacher and trainer, from the Mulberry Center for Curative Education training for our teachers if needed.
We have also sought support from Tiffany Conary, a current Waldorf teacher at Seasons of seven for Eurythmy, and she will be a teacher at our school.
The program currently is a preschool-kindergarten ages 4-6. I have several parents wanting to attend and many with older children as well. Please help me secure a loan to bring this style of education to this community.
Currently, we are seeking seed money, 20 people to donate $5,000.
The property cost is $11,000 per month
Classroom furniture is purchased.
Teacher’s salary $2,500 per month
Tuition $800 per month
School Hours Monday-Thursday 9-3 pm, Friday 9-1 pm
Once we fill our kindergarten classrooms with approx 30 students.
http://www.mindfuljourneyacademy.org/home/
https://www.facebook.com/Mindful-Journey-Academy-110815594416659
-Rudolf Steiner
At Mindful Journey Academy you will find:
-Waldorf inspired
- nature exploration
-developmentally appropriate education
-experiences before explanation
-meeting individual needs
-connection and communication
-arts and theater in the curriculum
-teachers connecting with children and parents
-community
Dear parents, grandparents, teachers, and members of our society who feel that our educational system is not serving our children, or our future,
We are following the dream of Marie Hall, a mother of 6 who says there is a need for change in our children's schooling and has homeschooled her children using the Waldorf curative method. She has gained strength and friendships that support her to start a school and be the change in our community. With every dream exists the reality--- we need funds.
Let us be the start, let us be the change. Join us.
Help us teach mindfulness and connection to our community and become examples to our children.
Marie and friends
Vision
At Mindful Journey Academy we believe in teaching the whole child, developing the cognitive, social-emotional and the physical domain. At Mindful Journey Academy we are dedicated to bringing mindfulness to your child through involvement and exploration, communication, and growth in nature. We have found that children learn through experiencing science, culture, arts, history, geography, handwork, and rhythms. Our school curriculum is dynamic and diversified, offering Math, Science, humanities, and the arts. The mastery of traditional academic disciplines are interwoven with practical, engaging, and artistic activities.
In times of Covid, we offer relief to parents in the world in which we live giving them an alternative to public style education that we have found that does not serve our children us or well.
About Marie
I have been homeschooling for 19 years. I have 6 children and 3 grandchildren. After many years I found that there were many things lacking in the curriculum for both public school, private and home schools. Constantly learning and seeking I came upon Waldorf education about 9 years ago. Before that, I had attended many homeschool cooperatives in the area all over Horry County, South Carolina. I have taught at many of the various classes like cooking, worm composting, painting classes, modeling beeswax classes, herb classes, movement classes, handwork classes, history and the age-based whole curriculum. You name it and I probably have a love for it and if a child needs it, I will research and teach it or find someone else that can.
I have attended Waldorf conferences at Taproot, also at Waldorf home school conferences in Florida. I have been mentored by Melisa Nielsen of Waldorf Essentials and Seasons of Seven for the past 9 years.
I have been a trained leader with Cub Scouts as a Cubmaster for 5 years. I went to Woodbadge leadership training. I have taught Sunday school for primary children and youth in church for several years. I also have been a leader in one of the largest Women’s organization in the world, serving women of all ages and various stages of life. I have run church summer camps of 100 plus children and obtained adult leaders for them. I planned each daily activity with the youth, teaching them how to lead. I have also had summer camps for scouting and have also planned and executed large scouting events for the public. This all involves seeking and finding adult leaders, youth leaders, and youth and primary-aged children to attend. I have also handled budgets and stayed within them in all organizations. I have also run fundraisers and helped children and youth to create fundraisers for their individual projects or camps.
In 2014, I convinced six families, in the beginning, to join me as we all learn more about Waldorf education. We started a Waldorf coop in Conway, SC. We continued to grow and have had up to 26 families and 58 children at a time. We became large and we are a living entity; we change and grow as needed. We had many classes for each age group. I interviewed children and adults upon applying. I worked with many individuals. I set up schedules, guided the adults to be teachers, lead meetings, and coached parents with their curriculum. We started in a house and met once weekly for lessons for 5 to 6 hours. I sold a curriculum and became a leader with a company, Waldorf Essentials. In our coop, each family bought a curriculum from me and followed that at home. I met with and advised ways for school lesson planning for each individual family. We opened accounts and made group orders for everyone to be able to have supplies for each class. We also planned Waldorf-inspired festivals monthly, and larger events like a pentathlon, and art walk where the extended families and friends of member families were also invited.
I became a 4-H leader and ran gardening programs weekly for age groups, age 5 -8 and 9 and up. For the last seven years, I have run the Conway Waldorf homeschool cooperative.
I have also created Waldorf education homeschool conferences. Hired the instructors, planned the meals and hired staff to manage each area.
I have had a dream since I began with the Waldorf cooperative to open a Waldorf-inspired private school.
This summer I had an opportunity to make that dream come true. I helped to build hobbit houses, a teepee, and an outdoor kitchen made of bamboo, a composting toilet, and beautifully crafted handmade tables and fenced it all in using bamboo. I built an outside coop school. It was amazing. I had meetings with parents within the community until the beginning. I sought after trained teachers then hired and trained them for our school. I set up a curriculum, helped them with their planning, and organized a conference for parents and teachers. Then I set up the rhythm of the school for the teachers. I then became the teacher. We had 12 children in attendance and changed $600 monthly. We served all organic and vegan meals, sang songs, had circle time, daily rhythms that included cooking, painting, various handwork projects, gardening, and baking bread. We also enjoyed making mini-plays, told lots of stories, and had daily nature walks to the beach or the park. We also had a Hebrew teacher three times a week. In each circumstance, I have learned more and more about how to make our future school better.
I have also helped set up another Waldorf-inspired mini-school. This one had a building with indoor plumbing and live animals, chickens, bunnies, and a hamster. With each, we continued our rhythm. We learned and grew more.
We have gained support from many local families, retired Waldorf teachers, current Waldorf teachers, retired and current public and private school teachers that seek a change in the way they are able to teach, and also current and businessmen and businesswomen in the area.
We have sought Waldorf teachers and education business owners like Melisa Nielsen of Seasons of Seven, an online Waldorf school and owner of Waldorf Essentials to help to train our teachers. We have also sought and gained counsel and support from a current Waldorf teacher of 30 years who has started 2 Waldorf highs schools.
We are also looking to add support from Robyn Brown, a curative Waldorf teacher and trainer, from the Mulberry Center for Curative Education training for our teachers if needed.
We have also sought support from Tiffany Conary, a current Waldorf teacher at Seasons of seven for Eurythmy, and she will be a teacher at our school.
The program currently is a preschool-kindergarten ages 4-6. I have several parents wanting to attend and many with older children as well. Please help me secure a loan to bring this style of education to this community.
Currently, we are seeking seed money, 20 people to donate $5,000.
The property cost is $11,000 per month
Classroom furniture is purchased.
Teacher’s salary $2,500 per month
Tuition $800 per month
School Hours Monday-Thursday 9-3 pm, Friday 9-1 pm
Once we fill our kindergarten classrooms with approx 30 students.
http://www.mindfuljourneyacademy.org/home/
https://www.facebook.com/Mindful-Journey-Academy-110815594416659
Organizer
Marie Hall
Organizer
Myrtle Beach, SC
