Clearing the Path: Supporting Every Child’s Journey
Online International Conference for All Waldorf Subject Teachers
July 13 - 16, 2026
9:00 am to 3:00 pm Pacific Time
See below for special school team discounts!
"Our rightful place as educators is to be removers of hindrances. Each child in every age brings something new into the world from divine regions, and it is our task to remove bodily and psychical obstacles out of their way, to remove hindrances so that their spirit may enter in full freedom into life."
—Rudolf Steiner
Children are arriving in our classrooms with increasingly diverse ways of learning, sensing, and engaging with the world. What can sometimes be experienced as distraction, resistance, or misbehavior often carries a deeper story—one that asks us to look more closely and respond with greater understanding.
This conference is an invitation into that work.
Together, we will explore diversity in learning, sensory processing, and inclusive teaching practices through a Waldorf lens. We will revisit familiar principles with fresh eyes, asking how we can better recognize the underlying causes of struggle and meet each child with clarity, warmth, and respect.
When we begin to understand the language of the child—their sensory needs, their stress responses, their unique ways of learning—we are able to shift from reaction to relationship. From correction to connection. And from there, something new becomes possible.
A Conference for the Whole Faculty
Special subject teachers are an essential part of Waldorf education. When we come together—class teachers, subject teachers, and homeschool educators—we begin to see the child more fully.
This conference is designed to support that shared work, strengthening collaboration across disciplines and deepening our collective capacity to meet the children in our care.
Conference Highlights
Mornings: All Subjects Together:
Each morning we gather as a full community to hear from internationally renowned keynote speakers, offering insight, inspiration, and a shared foundation for the day.
Afternoons: Subject-Specific Sessions:
In the afternoons, we move into focused work with colleagues in our disciplines.
Special sessions for Handwork, Music, Movement, and World Language teachers will include subject-specific keynotes along with practical, hands-on experiences you can bring directly into your classroom.
Collaboration Across Subjects:
Each day includes opportunities to connect across subjects—sharing perspectives, building understanding, and strengthening the threads that weave a healthy school community together.
What You’ll Take With You
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A deeper understanding of neurodiversity and sensory needs
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Practical tools for supporting regulation, focus, and readiness for learning
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New ways to create inclusive, differentiated classrooms in every subject
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Greater confidence in meeting a wide range of learners
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Meaningful connection with an international community of educators
Join us this July!
This is a time to pause, reflect, and renew your work as an educator. A time to deepen your understanding and reconnect with purpose. A time to come together in support of every child’s journey.
Full details and schedule coming soon!
Internationally Renowned Keynote Speakers
Ann Swain
Breathing, Sleeping and Waking
Widening our understanding of the human sensory system in the context of Steiner’s contribution to knowledge of the human being. This session will offer a window to different expressions used when sensory disharmony besets our learners’ paths.
Back to the Whole
Good differentiation needn’t be 25+ different lesson plans. This session will aim to offer a holistic consideration of different learning barriers and how the teacher might better stand, unfragmented, before a group of ready learners.
Alice Hoyle
Sensory Wellbeing: A Missing Link for Effective Learning
This session explores sensory wellbeing as a vital, and often overlooked, part of learning, behaviour, inclusion and belonging. We will look at the eight senses and how they shape pupils’ comfort, regulation, attention and ability to engage across the school day. We will explore sensory thresholds, sensory processing differences, the window of tolerance, and why neurodivergent learners may experience the same classroom very differently.
The session will also consider how sensory needs can show up in behaviour, masking, anxiety, shutdown, overload or sensory seeking, and why we need to become “sensory detectives” rather than jumping straight to behaviour-based explanations. By taking a whole-school approach to sensory welldoing, staff can better understand themselves, their pupils and one another, making small, thoughtful changes to environments, routines and adult responses so more learners feel safe, comfortable and ready to learn.
Special Sessions for Movement, Music, World Languages, and Handwork Teachers
Every afternoon we will break into groups for Subject Specific Keynote presentations by experienced Waldorf Subject Teachers.
Click below to learn more about details for each subject!
Handwork
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Movement
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Music
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World Languages
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Special School Team Pricing - Re-enliven the picture of a whole school model!
With this as our goal we offer special pricing for school teams! Unify your team by joining together for this unique opportunity.
Individual Full Day Ticket:
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Regular price $400 USD
Early Bird Ticket:
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Register before May 25, 2026 $350 USD
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Save $50!
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Use coupon code ClearBird at checkout
2 Pack
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Send two subject teachers or assistants from the same school
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Buy one get one 50% off - Save $200!
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Use coupon code 2PackClear at checkout
4 Pack
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Send four subject teachers or assistants from the same school
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Total $1,000 USD - Save $600!
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Use coupon code 4PackClear at checkout
