School Director Notes | December 2015
Dear SMWS Community, How I love the month of December and the Winter Holiday Season! Regardless of your own spiritual path, there is something magical and reverent about these long, dark days, and the light shining forth from candles, twinkly lights, and the stars that blaze their glory each and every evening. Because my […]
Middle School Climate Strike Day | by Meg Gardner, Seventh Grade Teacher
What is the most important issue of our time? This was the question asked of our Shining Mountain Middle School students by a 15-year-old Earth Guardian named Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. Xiuhtezcatl is the brother of Itzcuauhtli Martinez, a seventh grader at Shining Mountain Waldorf School. Their answer: Climate Change. Climate change is creating the most intense […]
SMWS Strategic Plan | by Will Paradise, President, Board of Trustees
On December 8th the board voted to approve the Five Year Strategic Plan for Shining Mountain. The goal of the Strategic Planning Task Force was to develop a plan and have it passed by the end of 2015. I am very happy that that we have achieved this goal. Special thanks goes out to Mark […]
Support SMWS on Colorado Gives Day!
Colorado Gives Day – Please support Shining Mountain! Colorado’s largest, one-day online giving event, presented by Community First Foundation and FirstBank, is coming up and we need your help. On Tuesday, December 8, 2015, thousands of donors will come together to support Colorado nonprofits like ours. Last year, a record-breaking $26.2 million was raised for Colorado […]
Shining Mountain High School Athletes | by Mike Hawkes, Athletic Director
While our own sports’ programs are great I felt the urge to honor those high school student athletes that participate outside of Shining Mountain. That’s right, if we do not offer a particular sport, high school student athletes are free to participate in those sports at other area schools. Below is a short snippet from a […]
School Director Notes | November 2015
Dear SMWS Community, I am always surprised by how I am affected by the loss of Daylight Savings Time every year! The abrupt change in the clock, the weather, and the light always takes me a few weeks to get adjusted to, and in this transition, I am given the wonderful gift of feeling […]
Eleven 10th Grade Actors, One Imaginary Invalid | by Nita Davanzo, High School Drama Teacher
Having not yet met the 10th grade class, I arrived to their classroom just three short weeks ago ready to dive into the always thrilling, ever daunting, sublimely challenging and thoroughly rewarding process of putting on a play. Stepping into the classroom that first day, I was reminded of my experience as a 10th grade […]
The Halloween Wonder Walk: Once Upon a Time in the Shining Kingdom
The Halloween Wonder Walk is a reverent, inwardly stirring event created for young children―that no one is too old to enjoy! This magical event is a gift to the children of our school and local community by the parents and faculty of Shining Mountain Waldorf School. It was created for the young child as an alternative to the popular […]
Current Future Search Results
We have collected all of the community input below from both the Future Search and the fall All School Community Meeting. This post contains all of the raw information from the community. Notes from FUTURE SEARCH | August 28, 2015 Notes from ALL SCHOOL COMMUNITY MEETING | September 25, 2015 To share your thoughts and […]
Future Search Update | by Will Paradise, Board Chair
Over the past months since the Future Search and the All School Community Meeting we have been working with the results and feedback we gained to develop the future direction of the school. In the spring of 2015 the Board of Trustees formed a Strategic Planning Task Force. This group’s assignment was to develop a five-year strategic […]