The Waldorf School’s new home on Columbus Street
The Waldorf School of New Orleans, the sole Waldorf School in the state, has opened its doors to its new home in the Bayou Road area. Its new campus, part of the Rose Collaborative, is located at 2539 Columbus St. The new location is for nursery through eighth grade. The Waldorf Early Childhood Center remains on Peniston Street in the Garden District. This long-anticipated move to the newly renovated campus coincides with the 100th anniversary of Waldorf schools around the world. The first Waldorf school was founded in Stuttgart, Germany, in September 1919.
Today there are over 1,100 Waldorf schools and almost 2,000 Waldorf kindergartens in more than 80 countries. The Waldorf School of New Orleans is the sole Waldorf School in Louisiana. Alembic Community Development has partnered with Rose Community Development Corporation to develop the 47,300-square-foot Rose Collaborative as a new cultural hub for the arts, education and community in the iconic former St. Rose de Lima church building and two schoolhouses on historic Bayou Road in New Orleans. Waldorf School of New Orleans will lease the 23,000-square-foot redeveloped schoolhouse as one of the anchor tenants, along with Southern Rep Theater, which occupies the former St. Rose de Lima church. After several years of leasing, the school will become eligible to purchase the building. Bayou Road is one of the city’s oldest streets; it originally followed the historic portage between the Mississippi River and bayou out to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, Bayou Road sits at the crossroads of several of the city’s most culturally resonant neighborhoods. Following decades of disinvestment and decline, the “Belles of Bayou Road” business owners invested in storefronts when others saw only blight and vacancy, and more recently the public sector invested $900,000 in façade and infrastructure improvements toward supporting the burgeoning corridor. Bayou Road is now home to an eclectic mix of small businesses and the St. Rose de Lima Church, a 1925 building that was de-consecrated following Hurricane Katrina, has been vacant for more than a decade. The Association of Waldorf Schools of North America has partnered with the Waldorf Early Childhood Association and the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education in the production of Seeding the Future, a video brief that provides a glimpse into the principles of Waldorf education, an education that fosters concern for others, connection to the world, and the capacity to be in service to society. Seeding the Future is a trailer to the international film, “Learn to Change the World.”
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Today there are over 1,100 Waldorf schools and almost 2,000 Waldorf kindergartens in more than 80 countries. The Waldorf School of New Orleans is the sole Waldorf School in Louisiana. Alembic Community Development has partnered with Rose Community Development Corporation to develop the 47,300-square-foot Rose Collaborative as a new cultural hub for the arts, education and community in the iconic former St. Rose de Lima church building and two schoolhouses on historic Bayou Road in New Orleans. Waldorf School of New Orleans will lease the 23,000-square-foot redeveloped schoolhouse as one of the anchor tenants, along with Southern Rep Theater, which occupies the former St. Rose de Lima church. After several years of leasing, the school will become eligible to purchase the building. Bayou Road is one of the city’s oldest streets; it originally followed the historic portage between the Mississippi River and bayou out to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, Bayou Road sits at the crossroads of several of the city’s most culturally resonant neighborhoods. Following decades of disinvestment and decline, the “Belles of Bayou Road” business owners invested in storefronts when others saw only blight and vacancy, and more recently the public sector invested $900,000 in façade and infrastructure improvements toward supporting the burgeoning corridor. Bayou Road is now home to an eclectic mix of small businesses and the St. Rose de Lima Church, a 1925 building that was de-consecrated following Hurricane Katrina, has been vacant for more than a decade. The Association of Waldorf Schools of North America has partnered with the Waldorf Early Childhood Association and the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education in the production of Seeding the Future, a video brief that provides a glimpse into the principles of Waldorf education, an education that fosters concern for others, connection to the world, and the capacity to be in service to society. Seeding the Future is a trailer to the international film, “Learn to Change the World.”
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