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Our Faculty
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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
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Sherris
Corby, Blackboard Drawing
Sherris has been a class teacher at Prairie Hill Waldorf School since
1996 (Her class is now in sixth grade.). She earned her BA from the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her Waldorf Teaching Certificate
from the Waldorf Institute of Sunbridge College, in New York and Chicago
Waldorf School's program. |
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Mary
Goral, Child Development, Curriculum, CO-Director
Mary is a CO-director of Great Lakes Teacher Training and has a PHD
in education (She wrote her dissertation on Waldorf education). Mary
taught second through sixth grades in public elementary schools for
11 years. She also taught for five years in the education departments
at Mount Mary College, in Milwaukee and Hanover College, in Hanover,
Indiana. She is currently teaching the eighth grade class at Prairie
Hill Waldorf School in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. |
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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. |
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Pamela
Harsch, Early Childhood
Pamela received her MS in Clinical Science from San Francisco State
University, in California and her Waldorf Teacher Certification from
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Pam has worked in the Prairie Hill
Waldorf School Early Childhood program for 12 years. During that time
she has served as a kindergarten assistant (one year), Coordinator/teacher
for the Parent-Tot Play Group (five years) and Kindergarten Teacher
for the past six years. Pamela has also done extensive middle school
work at Prairie Hill Waldorf School teaching blocks in physics, English,
English Literature and painting. She also has fifteen years experience
as a Waldorf parent. |
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Michael
Imes, Curriculum, Artistic Work, Co-Director
Michael 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 also a co-director of Great Lakes Teacher Training.
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Mary
Ruud, Eurythmy
Mary has been teaching eurythmy to all
grade levels for over twenty years. She has taught in many workshops
throughout the country and has taught in teacher training courses
in New York and Milwaukee. Mary is a Certified Therapeutic Eurythmist
and is participating in training to bring eurythmy into workplaces.
Mary is currently teaching at the Urban Waldorf School in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. |
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Mary
Schunemann, Music
Mary has a BA from St. Cloud University,
in St. Cloud, Minnesota, a Certification in Waldorf Early Childhood
Education, from Rudolf Steiner College, in Fair Oaks, California and
singing training from Snellman University, in Lahti, Finland. She
teaches workshops based on the Werbeck-Svardstrom approach to singing
and extended voice technique. She also teaches piano and lyre. Mary
has taught kindergarten at Urban Waldorf and Music (singing, Choroi
Flutes, recorders, theory and world music) at Prairie Hill Waldorf
School. She is currently the music instructor for the Waldorf teacher
training, in Ann Arbor, Michigan and for the LifeWays Training Course,
in East Troy, Wisconsin. |
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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. |
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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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Linda
Weyerts, Child Development/
"Millennial Child" Study
Linda is currently the third grade teacher
at Prairie Hill Waldorf School, where she has taught since 1999. Linda
has also taught at the Watcom Hills Waldorf School in Bellingham,
Washington ('95-'99). She is a graduate of the Sacramento Waldorf
School. She finished her Waldorf high school education abroad at Michael
Hall in Susssex, England. She received her BA. in Literature at Aarhus
University in Jutland, Denmark and her Cand. Phil. Degree ( comparable
to an MA ) in Linguistics at Aarhus University. She did her Waldorf
high school teacher training at the Rudolf Steiner Skolen Syd in 1986,
while teaching high school there. Linda has worked extensively with
biodynamic agriculture and Waldorf therapeutic education for young
people with special needs. She has also been a Waldorf parent for
15 years. |
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