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Our Faculty and Staff
 | Donna
Abler , Sensory Integration/Remedial Work
Check
back for more on Donna Abler's biography. |
| Lori
Barian , Director of Administration & Waldorf Enrichment
Lori Barian has both a BS and MS degree in English, and her certification is in
Waldorf early childhood education through Arcturus, Chicago, and LifeWays. Her
professional work since 1988 has been primarily in nonprofit (Waldorf school &
LifeWays included) administration and development. She serves on the Central Regional
Council and the General Council of the Anthroposophical Society in America. |
| Jacqueline
Beecher , Intro to Waldorf Education Pedagogy, Math Activities, and Form Drawing
Check back for more on Jacqueline Beecher's biography. |
| Linda
Bergh, Biography Work - Minneapolis, MN
Linda
Bergh has worked with Anthroposophy and Waldorf education for 30 years and is
currently core teacher for the Novalis Institute in the Twin Cities - an adult
collaborative serving the Waldorf, anthroposophic and wider community. She has
a deep interest in biography work. Professionally, she has a Masters in Psychology
and Counseling and has worked as a public and Waldorf school teacher and administrator,
as a college professor, and as a child psychologist. After the death of her daughter
in 1996, Linda Bergh published She would Draw Flowers, a book of poetry by
Kirsten Bergh. She has been working herself, with her community, and with
Nancy Poer in the field of death and dying since that time. |
| Margaret
Brill, Spatial Dynamics
Margaret Brill is a
founding member of Prairie Hill Waldorf School. In the early 90's she team-taught
grades 3-6 there with Bente Goldstein. She has also served as School Wright at
Prairie Hill Waldorf School in Pewaukee, Wisconsin and has taught movement/games
at Prairie Hill for a number of years. She studied spatial dynamics with Jaimen
McMillan and graduated from that program in 2000. She currently teaches grades
3-8 at Prairie Hill. |
| Claudia
Browne, Language Arts - Ann Arbor, MI
Claudia
Browne is entering Grade 6 as a class teacher, after having taught 15 years as
a class teacher (Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor, Waldorf School of Milwaukee)
and 2 years as a French teacher. She also taught "Kinderbridge" classes
at Prairie Hill and Ann Arbor for 5-6 summers. Prior teaching experience includes
seven years in Sheboygan Public Schools. She has taught form drawing, singing
and circle games, and chalkboard drawing this past year for the Waldorf Instituted
of Southeast Michigan, another teacher training program. She is the AWSNA representative
for the Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor; she serves on summer conference committee
for AWSNA and is involved in mentoring, in AWSNA school visits, and in accreditation
visits. Claudia has a 26-yr. old son (Nathan) living in Omaha, Nebraska; 23-yr.
old daughter (Ashlea) who graduated from RCA and is attending Eastern Michigan
University. Her alma mater is MacMurray College (liberal arts) in Illinois, where
she majored in physical education and minored in English and French. |
| Chet
Calenza , Movement and Games, Folk Dancing
Chet
received his Waldorf teacher training through Arcturus, in Chicago. He taught
at Prairie Hill Waldorf School from 2002 to 2008. During his years at Prairie
Hill he worked as a class teacher and a music teacher; he also taught movement
and games, and woodworking. |
| Sherris
Corby, Blackboard Drawing
Sherris Corby took
a class from first through eighth grade at Prairie Hill Waldorf School. She earned
her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her Waldorf Teaching Certificate
from Sunbridge College, Spring Valley, NY. |
| Barb
Danner, Speech, Drama Overview and Play - Milwaukee,WI
Barbara Danner is a trained actress and certified Waldorf teacher. She has directed
numerous class plays including works by Shakespeare, Christopher Fry and Owen
Barfield. She has written a number of plays for classes and workshops as well,
most recently an adaptation of the Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnall.
Barbara has beeen instrumental in bringing the Shepherd's play to the Milwaukee
area every year at Advent. She is mother to five girls. |
| Indyria
Graham, Choral Singing
Indyria
earned her Waldorf Teacher Certification in 1993. She has been teaching at Urban
Waldorf School in Milwaukee since its inception (taking two classes 1-5). Indyria
holds two masters degrees; one in Creative Arts in Education and another in Administrative
Leadership. She is Choral Director of the Northside Church of God and is founder
and leader of the Urban Waldorf Gospel Choir. Indyria has led singing workshops
in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Austin, TX and Milwaukee. |
| Pam
Harsch, Inner Life Studies and Calligraphy - New
Berlin, WI
Pam Harsch taught in the Early Childhood
program at Prairie Hill Waldorf School for 13 years and as an adjunct faculty
member there for many more. She served as PHWS's Administrative Coordinator for
the AWSNA full membership and accreditatiojn process during the last two years
and has been hired to serve as Faculty Chair this year. She obtained her Waldorf
Teacher Training Certificate from the University of WI-Milwaukee and AWSNA, her
MS in Clinical Science, emphasis education and management from San Francisco State
University, CA, and her BS Honors in Medical Technology and Philosophy from Marquette
University. She has served as a Great Lakes Teacher Training Instructor, Mount
Mary College , since 2002. She is mother of two Waldforf school alumni. |
| Peggy
Hong, "Wish, Wonder and Surprise"
(Grade 7 Language Arts) and Creative
Writing - Milwaukee, WI
Peggy Hong is a poet,
dancer, and Iyengar yoga instructor who served as Milwaukee's Poet Laureate in
2006-07. She is the author of a poetry collection, Three Truths and a Lie
(Water Press and Media), and several poetry chapbooks. She lives in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin with her husband and three children, ages 19, 17, and 15, who attended
Waldorf schools from kindergarten through 8th grade. She teaches writing and yoga
at Alverno College, Woodland Pattern Book Center, and throughout the community. |
| Michael
Imes, Teaching Language Arts, Clay, Recorder, Form and Perspective Drawing,
Inner Life Studies; GLTT Director and Program Coordinator - Pewaukee, WI
Michael Imes received his MFA from Southern Illinois
University in Carbondale. He also has a BA from Iowa Wesleyan College and a Waldorf
Teaching Certificate from the UW-Milwaukee training. He taught grades 1-8 at Prairie
Hill Waldorf School. Since graduating in 1998 he has been teaching ceramics at
Carroll College, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Michael is director of Great Lakes Teacher
Training. |
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Peg Kasun, Choral Singing - Delafield, WI
Peg
Kasun is leading Choral Singing at Great Lakes for her third consecutive year.
Having worked as both a music educator and music therapist, Ms. Kasun is currently
Director of Music at Our Lady of Lourdes parish in Milwaukee. Peg enjoys conducting
and playing for musical theater productions, and directs the Youth Choir and Schola
Cantorum at St. Gregory the Great parish. She lives in Delafield with her husband
and three beautiful "Waldorf" kids, ages 10, 8, and 5. |
| Sandra
Martin, Former Waldorf Teacher
Sandra Martin
has worked with Anthroposophy for 20 years and has been an educator for over 30.
In all her endeavors, she strives to keep balance and economy in teaching the
whole child at the center of each initiative. Professionally, she is studying
to obtain her Director of Instruction Licensure, and has a Masters Degree in Curriculum
and Instruction. Sandra has worked as a public and Waldorf school teacher. In
addition, she served as faculty chairperson in a Waldorf school, college professor,
and problem solving facilitator. Currently, she works as a school improvement
supervisor. |
| Barbara
Prendergast, Watercolor Painting
Barbara teaches
at Urban Waldorf School, in Milwaukee. She received her Waldorf training from
Emerson College in England and her Masters in Education from Mt. Mary College,
in conjunction with the Great Lakes Teacher Training Program. |
| John
Price - Milwaukee, WI
Mr. John Price grew up
in Chicago, Illinois. He is an active string bassist, performing and recording
in the area. In his free time he also enjoys running and writing plays for adults
and children. In college, Mr. Price pursued both music and film studies. He earned
his Waldorf Teacher Training Certificate in the Ann Arbor WTDA Program. One of
the founding teachers of Tamarack Community School in 1996, Mr. Price was the
lead teacher in the fall of 1996, teaching a combined class of third and fourth
graders. Those two classes graduated in the spring of 2001 and 2002. |
| | Mary
Ruud, Eurythmy and Inner Life Studies - Milwaukee, WI
Mary
Ruud has taught eurythmy for over 25 years. She recently taught for 12 years at
the Urban Waldorf School. She is presently working as a therapeutic eurythmist
and teaching in adult education. Mary teaches in the Great Lakes Teacher Training,
the Lifeways early childhood training, and the Waldorf program at Bellarmine University
in Louisville, Kentucky. Mary received her Masters in Liberal Studies in 2005
with an emphasis on ecology and earth healing. Spring Valley Eurythmy School,
New York, additional stage training in Nurnberg, Germany, Therapeutic training,
London School of Eurythmy, Peredur, England. She was born in La Crosse, WI, and
has one daughter, who is a Milwaukee Police detective, and three grandchildren. |
| Dawn
Van Kley, Handwork
Dawn has a BA from Southern
Illinois University, in Carbondale, Illinois. She has been teaching handwork at
Prairie Hill Waldorf School since 1990. Dawn has presented workshops in felting
wool, knitting, spinning for children and adults. |
| Gideon
Weick, Child Development and Curriculum
Gideon
trained at Emerson College and has been involved with Anthroposophy for nearly
30 years. He has been a class teacher at the Minnesota Waldorf School for 13 years,
starting in 1989, and is currently with his second class. |
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