Waldorf Without Walls

Royse Crall

Royse has taken one class through Spring Garden Waldorf School (grades one to eight) and took on the first grade last fall. Royse taught Waldorf lessons in painting, knitting and history to fourth graders in the public school from 1995-1997.  She taught Waldorf main lesson blocks to homeschooled children grades kindergarten to 5th from 1997-1999.  She received her Waldorf training from the Great Lakes Regional Training Center (2000-2002) and has attended numerous Waldorf grades trainings and conferences from 1993 until today.  She taught at Taproot Farm the past two summers. Royse has three grown children of her own. She loves to knit, do Eurythmy and drama, and is working on her art.

Barbara S. Dewey

Barbara, of Waldorf Without Walls, consults with homeschooling families throughout the world, publishes a quarterly newsletter, writes publications, provides training workshops and family festival weekends at her farm, and spends her spare time with family and friends, enjoying her unique solar home, and developing her farmland. She is the mother of four and grandmother to six. Barbara holds an M.S. in Waldorf Education from the Waldorf Institute of Sunbridge College in Spring Valley, N.Y. She has been teaching for 50 years.

Jean Miller

After earning her Masters in Teaching and working in both public and private schools, Jean decided to homeschool her own children using Waldorf methods.  Jean has been married to Brian for twenty one years and they live in Cleveland Heights, Ohio with their three children: Isaac (19) who is a freshman at Case Western Reserve University, and Ben (17) and Lila (10) who are both homeschooling. Jean finds inspiration particularly from the creative arts, singing and the nature. She leads a group called Rainbow’s Edge weekly at her house for children in grades 1-5 and she has just finished teaching fourth grade for the third time around!

John Quimby

After earning degrees in Entomology and Forestry from the University of Michigan, he was the State Forest Entomologist and Chief of the Forest Health Program of Pennsylvania for 30 years, and a Forester for the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska, Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado, and South Dakota for five years before that.

Since retiring from forest entomology in 1999 'Quimby' (as he is called), has been devoting his time to cabinet making, planting trees, social action, and environmental education for youngsters.  He has worked part time/full time for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and was named "Environmental Educator of the Year" by that organization in 2007.   The past two summers have been spent guiding canoe trips for youngsters in the Adirondacks of upstate New York State.  In that capacity he has run workshops on wildflower identification, tree identification, and other environmental education themes, as well as taken youth out into the wilderness for a week at a time.

The content of Quimby’s sessions will be determined by the needs of the group. Come with your science questions in mind!