YEARS OF WONDER CONFERENCE
April 23-24, 2010 in Ann Arbor, MI
"BEING THE PARENT YOUR CHILD NEEDS"
ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 23rd and 24th, 2010 -- Announcing the First Annual "Years of Wonder" conference, located at the Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor. The 2-day conference is open to the public and designed for parents, educators, homeschoolers and others interested in creating an environment where young children can acquire skills, capacities and knowledge needed to live well in the world.
The conference will focus on enriching your parenting skills, practices that foster vigorous brain development and creating a healthy, nurturing home environment! Author and long time early childhood educator Sharifa Oppenheimer will lead the conference as keynote speaker with lectures entitled: "Love's Other Name--Discipline" (Fri. night lecture) and "How Children Learn and How Parents Can Best Help Them" (Sat. Morning Lecture). [For full biography on Sharifa Oppenheimer, see below.] Parents will take home skills to support their children's well-balanced, broad-based learning, and thereby give these children treasures to last a lifetime.
$60 Registration Fee: The 2-day conference features workshops in Art, Movement, Language Arts and Family Life. Registrants choose three workshops to participate in. Lunch is included in the Registration Fee. For registration information, email awalton@steinerschool.org.
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Biography (Keynote Speaker)
Sharifa Oppenheimer was the founding teacher of the Charlottesville Waldorf School, Virginia, where she taught kindergarten for twenty-one years and served as day care director of the early-childhood program. She has helped develop new teachers through teacher-training programs at Sunbridge College in New York State, and at Rudolf Steiner College near Sacramento as a master teacher offering practicum and internship opportunities. She has written many articles on Waldorf education, helping the parents of her students create supportive home environments. Recently she initiated a home-based kindergarten program, The Rose Garden. Sharifa is the mother of three grown sons, who were educated in the Waldorf tradition. She lives in an enchanted forest in Virginia.
