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Eugene Schwartz

1614 Pughtown Road

Phoenixville, PA 19460

610-906-7644

info@millennialchild.com

Born: July 4, 1945, Brooklyn, NY.

Professional Experience:

2007:

·         Keynote Speaker at Steiner Schools Federation Conference, London, United Kingdom

·         Guest Lecturer, Alaska Pacific University

·         Consultant at Camphill Soltane

·         Lecturer/Consultant at 23 schools

·         Conference Leader, Essential Grades Five, Six, and Seven, Mancos, Colorado

2006:

·         Keynote Speaker at first Waldorf Conference in Turkey

·         Lecturer/Consultant at 12 schools

·         Conference Leader, Essential Grades Three, Four, Five, Six, and Seven, Mancos, Colorado

 2005:

·         Lecturer/Consultant at 16 schools

·         Director/Screenwriter for Eurythmy: Making Movement Human, a DVD

·         Consulting Editor for Raising Waldorf, a book about The Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork, Carbondale, CO

2004:

·         Lecturer/Consultant at 26 schools

·         Conference Leader, Essential Grade Three Conference, Philadelphia Children’s School

·         Conference Leader, Essential Grade Four Conference, River Valley School

·         Conference Leader, Essential Grades Four, Five, and Six, Mancos, Colorado

 2003:

·         Lecturer/Consultant at 24 schools

·         Guest lecturer, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, Alaska

·         Conference Leader, Essential Grade Two Conference, Philadelphia Children’s School

·         Conference Leader, Essential Grade Four Conference, River Valley School

2002:

·         Lecturer/consultant at 27 schools

·         Guest lecturer, Mercy College Continuing Education course for public school teachers in District 6, New York City Board of Education

·         Keynote Speaker, Norwegian Waldorf Schools Association, Hergesund, Norway

·         Conference Leader, Essential Grade One Conference, River Valley School

·         Conference Leader, Essential Grade Three Conference, River Valley School

2001:

·         Lecturer/consultant at 29 schools

·         Lecturer on "Harry Potter and Today's Child" at the Princeton Regional PTO

2000:

·         Lecturer/consultant at 26 schools

·         Lecture on “The Millennial Child” at the Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO.

·         Guest lecturer, Teachers College, Columbia University, “Waldorf Education: An Introduction.”

1999:

·         Lecturer/consultant at 31 schools

·         Guest lecturer at the University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, on the subject of ADHD.

·         Lecture on “Goethe, Our Contemporary” at the Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO.

·         Guest Lecturer, Computers in Education Conference, Dwight-Englewood School, NJ.

·         Guest lecturer, Teachers College, Columbia University, “Waldorf Education: An Introduction.”

1998:

·         Lecturer/consultant at 29 schools

·         Guest lecturer at Harvard University, “Building Community Through the Arts in Education.”

·         Guest lecturer, Teachers College, Columbia University, “Waldorf Education: An Introduction.”

1997:

·         Lecturer/consultant at 35 schools

·         Appointed Director of Teacher Training Programs at Sunbridge College.

·         Consultant to the Renaissance School, a New York City “New Vision” public school.

·         Guest lecturer, Teachers College, Columbia University, “Waldorf Education: An Introduction.”

1996:

·         Lecturer/consultant at 37 schools

·         Consultant and co-director of Waldorf Education: A Vision of Wholeness, a fifteen-minute video about Waldorf education in the United States. This video was awarded a   “Cindy” by the International Association of Audio-Visual Communicators.

·         Consultant to the West Side Community School, a New York City public school utilizing Waldorf methodology; taught a 12-session course to faculty.

·         Invited by the Center for the Study of the Spiritual in Education to present papers at its spring symposium.  Other presenters included Jerome Bruner (Harvard), David Elkind (Tufts), Edward Joyner (Yale), William Crain (CCNY), and Michaela Glöckler (Germany).

 1995:

·         Lecturer/consultant at 32 schools

·         Appointed Director of Three-Year Teacher Education Program, Sunbridge College

·         Visiting faculty member, Rudolf Steiner College

·         Visiting faculty member, Shining Mountain Waldorf High School

·         Consultant at Colegio Waldorf, Cuernavaca, Mexico

 1994:

·         Lecturer/consultant at 32 schools

·         Lecturer and school consultant in Vienna, Austria and Bologna, Italy.

·         Consultant and main speaker for the art exhibit “Truth and Beauty,” held at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City.  Wrote the text for the exhibition brochure and created signs describing in detail the 50+ works of student art on display.

1990-1994:

·         Lecturer/consultant at 21 schools

·         Served as Chairman of the Lower School Faculty and a

Class Teacher in Green Meadow Waldorf School, Spring Valley, NY.  Took a

class through grades five through eight, and also taught  High School English

and Art History.

1992/1993:

·         Lecturer/consultant at 19 schools

·         Recipient of a Carnegie Teaching Fellowship, Summer, 1992, to

develop a thematic curriculum for the primary school years,

kindergarten through fourth grade.

 1991- 1994:

·         Lecturer/consultant at 21 schools

·         Consultant to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement

of Teaching, Princeton, NJ.

 1989-1990:

·         On my sabbatical year, visited over thirty Waldorf

schools across the US and Canada, serving as a consultant and

lecturer, and teaching master classes in all eight grades.

1981-1989:

·         Class Teacher, Green Meadow Waldorf School, Spring

Valley, NY. Took a class through grades one to eight,

teaching a broad range of academic and artistic subjects. 

·         Taught Art History, History and English at the high school level.

 1986-  :

·         Visiting Faculty Member of Sunbridge College, Spring

Valley, NY.  Gave courses on Language and Literature, The

Teaching of History and Reading and Writing in relation to the

Waldorf curriculum.  Also led weekend and summer workshops

for Waldorf teachers.

1984-  :

·         Visiting Faculty Member of Rudolf Steiner College, Fair

Oaks, California.  Taught summer workshops on various aspects

of the Waldorf curriculum.

1979-1985:

·         Visiting Faculty Member of the School of Eurythmy, Spring

Valley, NY.  Taught courses on Poetics and History of English

Literature.

1979-  :

·         Served as a consultant to various Waldorf schools in

North America, and lectured at a number of anthroposophical centers

in the US and Canada.

 1976-1981:

·         Class Teacher at the Otto Specht Classes (a part of the

Fellowship Community.)  Using the Waldorf curriculum, taught a

group of handicapped and emotionally-disturbed adolescents.

1971-1981:

·         Co-worker at the Fellowship Community, Spring Valley, NY. 

Designed a range of artistic and educational programs for the

elderly, and educational programs for therapists and those engaged

in work with the terminally ill. 

Educational Background:

1971: M.A. in American Literature,                                 

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.

1967-68: University Fellow,

The Graduate Faculties, Columbia University, New York, NY.

1967: B.A. in English and American Literature,

Columbia University, New York, NY.

Publications:

Electronic Media

Over fifty lectures and articles by Eugene Schwartz are available on CD and/or appear on the Internet.

Visit www.millennialchild.com for more information.

Books

A Waldorf-tanár túlélőkönyve, Remedium Kft., Nagykovácsi, Hungary, 2005.

“ADHD: A Challenge for Our Time,” in The Young Child in the World Today, Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America, Spring Valley, NY, 2003.

“Introduction,” to The Renewal of Education by Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophic Press, Hudson, NY, 2002.

Überlebens-Handbuch für Waldorf-Lehrer, Maroverlag, Augsberg, Germany, 2001.

Waldorf Education: Schools for the Twenty-First Century, Xlibris.com, Philadelphia, 2000.

Millennial Child, Anthroposophic Press, Great Barrington, MA, 1999.

What You Didn’t Learn in Teacher Training, Rudolf Steiner College Publications, Fair Oaks, CA, 1999.

Why the Setting Sun Turns Red and Other Stories for Children, AWSNA Publications, Fair Oaks, CA, 1997.

Adolescence: The Search for the Self, Two Lectures, Rudolf Steiner College Publications, Fair Oaks, CA, 1992.

Seeing, Hearing, Learning: The Interplay of Eye and Ear in Waldorf

Education, Three Lectures, Rudolf Steiner College Publications, Fair

Oaks, CA, 1990.                                                           

The Waldorf Teacher’s Survival Guide, Rudolf Steiner College Publications, Fair Oaks, CA, 1990

Gratitude, Love, and Duty, Association for a Healing Education, Glenmoore, PA, 1989.

Rhythms and Turning Points in the Life of the Child, Two Lectures,

Rudolf Steiner College Publications, Fair Oaks, CA, 1989.

Plays for Children and Communities, Ten Plays inspired by the

Waldorf Curriculum: Rudolf Steiner College Publications, Fair Oaks,

CA, 1987; Second Printing 1992.

Articles

“Earth and Heaven: Teaching Sixth Grade Science in the Waldorf School,” Renewal, Spring, 2007.

“High Stakes Testing,” Bulletin of the Waldorf Research Institute, Spring, 2007.

“Do the Festivals Have a Future?” Bulletin of the Waldorf Research Institute, Autumn, 2006.

“Assuming Nothing,” Bulletin of the Waldorf Research Institute, Spring, 2006.

“Beyond Cognition: Children and Television Viewing,” Bulletin of the Waldorf Research Institute, Autumn, 2005.

"Understanding ADHD," Journal for Curative Education and Social Therapy, Glencraig, Scotland, Autumn, 2002.

"Recursos, Processos, Relações, e Identidade: Melhorando a Comunicação entre Educadores," in Boletim da Aitiara (Botucatu, Brazil), August, 2000.

“Freedom of Choice . . . or Freedom from Choice?” The Peridot Journal, Spring, 2000.

“Educating for Life: A Look at the Foundations of Waldorf Education,” Journal for Anthroposophy, Number 69, Michaelmas, 1999.

“Handwork and Intellectual Development,” Renewal, Spring, 1999.

“ADHD: A Challenge of Our Time,” in Waldorf Research Institute Bulletin, January, 1999.

“Computers in the Waldorf School,” Renewal, Autumn, 1998.

“Um grito por mitos: Uma experiência pessoal,” in Nós (São Paulo, Brazil), December, 1998.

“Das Verlangen nach Mythen,” article in Das Goetheanum (Dornach, Switzerland), No. 27, July 5, 1998.

“A Whole Child Approach to ADHD,” Holistic Health Journal, Volume 4, No. 3, November, 1997.

“Tesser la trama sociale della classe,” article in Arte dell’educazione, (Milan, Italy) Anno 1, numero 1, 1995.

"Stages of Drama," Renewal, A Journal for Waldorf Education, Volume 2, Number 1, 1993.

"Holistic Assessment in the Waldorf School," article in Holistic Education Review, Winter, 1993.