Scientific understanding of how the brain influences the body — and the body influences the brain — is shedding light on the role movement plays in learning and memory. 
New studies show that a teacher educating the same group of students in multiple subjects over multiple years (looping) has lasting benefits. 
An overview of how our classes are honoring and celebrating Black History Month at Cedarwood this year.
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Thanks to your purchases through the Cedarwood Bookshop, we’ve been able to add 24 new titles to our collection in the early childhood program, and over 60 books in our grades classes.
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New research shows that award winning scientists — and especially Nobel Prize winners — are far more likely to have artistic hobbies than the general public. Many of them, including Einstein, cite the role of the arts in their breakthroughs. 
New research highlights the fascinating things that happen with your brain when you work with your hands.
Cedarwood students don’t have to run away to join the circus — they just have to run to school!
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Some of the ways in which students are honoring MLK Day and Black History Month in the music program.
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With increasingly rapid changes in technology and the nature of work, employers are interested not just in intelligence and social skills, but in an employee’s adaptability quotient–their ability to adapt to new challenges with flexibility, curiosity, problem-solving, courage, and resilience.
New research indicates that access to the outdoors during childhood is strongly associated with happiness, mental health, and wellbeing in adulthood. 
Our approach to media literacy gives Cedarwood graduates the tools and knowledge they need to be independent, creative, and ethical digital citizens. 
To solve the environmental crisis, or any of the other ecological, economic, social and political crises we face, we need to foster the power of imagination in education.
We find ourselves continually inspired and determined to build this program in a way that serves the students in our community with comprehensive, equitable support for the diversity of learners before us.
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In September 1985 I met a woman who would impact the rest of my life. Her gifts, and the gifts of Waldorf education, extended beyond the classroom into the ability to connect with others, to see the humanity in each person, to treasure the group, and to feel stable in one’s roots even as wings are spread into high school and beyond.
This year, Diwali was celebrated in the classrooms at Cedarwood. Children made diyas, heard stories, shared music, and learned more about the history of this special festival.
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Cedarwood's honoring of El Día de los Muertos during Spanish classes on November 1 & 2.
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While developing research papers on scientists who we think have helped change the world, the seventh grade has also been talking about how scientists (and all of us) need to be observant of the world around them in order to truly see, experience, define, and know what is there.
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It’s impossible for us to know everything, and things are always changing. But we can learn to be curious, and know how to ask the questions that lead us to consider new ideas.
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