Cultural Appreciation in Schools: An Exploration of Power Cultural Appreciation Series #1   By Masumi Hayashi-Smith, Aiyana Masla, and Joaquin Muñoz     We at Alma Partners have noted that many teachers are carrying similar questions and concerns about sharing elements of culture in their classrooms and schools. Some are holding themselves back from taking risks that could lead to ... Read More ►

An Educational Model for the Future? Thoreau College and the Microcollege Movement Jacob Hundt   When the history of American higher education in the twenty-first century comes to be written, 2024 will stand out as a watershed year when many dire predictions finally came true.   Less than halfway through the year, at least a dozen colleges with long histories ... Read More ►

Rudolf Steiner on Building Healthy Organizations: Understanding the Fundamentals of Working Together—from the School to the Factory Seth Jordan   It was once normal for people to work their whole lives at the same job. Today, that’s obviously not the case, and not just because technology transforms industries so quickly; our whole way of thinking about work has changed. If ... Read More ►

One of the benefits of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is its ease at unveiling hidden associations between current difficulties and life events from our past. Here, I want to share an inside glimpse of an EMDR session to elucidate how intertwined our day-to-day reactions are with past life events. The session occurred near the beginning of the ... Read More ►

I wrote You Are Your Child’s First Teacher in the late 1980s in response to a task I had been given to make a bridge between Steiner’s insights and the ideas of parents of young children who might have been called cultural creatives for their interest in more natural alternatives in birth, parenting, and education. At the time, everyone I encountered in ... Read More ►