What You Can Expect
All Sunbridge Summer Series courses feature highly experienced lead instructor(s) and special subject teachers, with each session of your day individually tailored to the specific topic you have signed up to study. You will have ample opportunity for community-building with your peers during your instructional sessions, in your open Zoom classroom (or campus) space, and in your Google Classroom, which contains abundant amounts of relevant resource materials you can access across the following school year.
All Approaching the Grades participants receive instruction in the arts, while Grades 7 & 8 participants enjoy additional sessions with math and science specialists. Every Grades course features an anthroposophical study specific to your grade to help you fully understand the age group you will be teaching in the fall. Sunbridge director of education and organizational culture Meggan Gill will be back to co-facilitate DEI sessions with your lead Grades instructor, Collaborative Leadership continues to include follow-up coaching calls so you can keep the support going all year long, and, once again, Introduction to Waldorf Early Childhood Education is available in both in-person and online options so you can participate in this highly popular course in the format that works best for you (but choose quickly, as this title usually sells out!).
Please note that while we welcome educators from all backgrounds to enroll in our summer courses, our Grades 1-8 curriculum is tailored to individuals who have completed a Waldorf training. If you have not yet benefitted from our Waldorf teacher education program, we strongly encourage you to explore this highly enriching course of study, which delves far more deeply into Waldorf education and teacher preparation than is possible in a one-week summer course and culminates in an AWSNA-recognized diploma.
Tuition
Online courses:
- Introduction to Waldorf Early Childhood Education: $645 (includes yearlong access to Google Classroom resource materials)
- Approaching the Grades, 1-8: $645 (includes yearlong access to Google Classroom resource materials)
- Collaborative Leadership: $700 (includes yearlong coaching and yearlong access to Google Classroom resource materials)
In person course:
- Introduction to Waldorf Early Childhood Education: $990 (includes all materials and yearlong access to Google Classroom resource materials)
All prices include a non-refundable $55 registration fee (online courses) or $80 registration fee (in person course).
Available Discounts
- 25% off for students currently enrolled in a Sunbridge teacher education program; Sunbridge program graduates; or for payments made in Canadian dollars. Accounts must be in good standing, and discounts may not be combined. Qualification for discounts will be verified by Sunbridge staff.
Please note that Sunbridge is a New York State Education Department Approved Sponsor of Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (NYSED CTLE), enabling teachers of any background to choose Sunbridge for their CLTE/CEU professional development credits. Check to see if your state honors our status.
Registration
To make the learning experience enjoyable and meaningful for both participants and instructors, each Summer Series course has both a maximum and a minimum number of spaces available. Every summer, we hear from teachers who are disappointed to learn they have waited too long to register and are closed out of the course they were hoping (or, even, planning!) to attend.
Once registration opens, we strongly encourage you to sign up early to guarantee your spot. Schools that don’t yet have a teacher assigned to a grade for next fall are welcome to register with a place-holder until your teacher’s name is known (if so, please leave a comment in the Leave a Message field that this a placeholder registration).
2025 Course Listings
Leadership
July 20-25 ONLINE
Collaborative Leadership
Personalized Strategies for Becoming a More Effective Member of Your Leadership Team
Joachim Ziegler and Jessica Heffernan Ziegler, lead instructors
Early Childhood
July 13-18 ONLINE
Introduction to Waldorf Early Childhood Education
An Immersion in the World of the Waldorf Nursery/Kindergarten
Lisa Miccio, lead instructor
June 22-27 IN PERSON
Introduction to Waldorf Early Childhood Education
An Immersion in the World of the Waldorf Nursery/Kindergarten
Lisa Miccio, lead instructor
Grades 1-8
July 6-11 ONLINE
Approaching Grade One
Inspiration and Guidance for Your Year
Elizabeth Doshi, lead instructor
June 22-27 ONLINE
Approaching Grade Two
Inspiration and Guidance for Your Year
Suchi Swift, lead instructor
Dates TBA ONLINE
Approaching Grade Three
Inspiration and Guidance for Your Year
Lead instructor TBA
June 29-July 4 ONLINE
Approaching Grade Four
Inspiration and Guidance for Your Year
Allison Stovall, lead instructor
June 29-July 4 ONLINE
Approaching Grade Five
Inspiration and Guidance for Your Year
Lisa Fitch, lead instructor
July 6-11 ONLINE
Approaching Grade Six
Inspiration and Guidance for Your Year
Ashley Umlauf, lead instructor
Dates TBA ONLINE
Approaching Grade Seven
Inspiration and Guidance for Your Year
Lead instructor TBA
Dates TBA ONLINE
Approaching Grade Eight
Inspiration and Guidance for Your Year
Lead instructor TBA
Praise From Recent Summer Series Participants
- The Zoom week was (surprisingly) wonderful and practical.
- I chose it because I know many people who have just loved their experiences at Sunbridge and I am now one of them!
- I feel like Sunbridge always navigates the remote learning world so nicely!
- This was absolutely fantastic, all around. I must admit I was nervous about the Zoom format, but the teachers did a fantastic job balancing the technology with a real, human feeling, with plenty of opportunity for our own voices. Also, the Google Classroom is a huge repository for such good stuff. It’s actually easier to access than the method of the past.
- I’m so pleased Sunbridge was able to make this experience so welcoming, very well set up and easy to work with!
- I commend the staff for how well prepared the online portals all were!
- I found this course to be of particularly high quality, especially since it was delivered completely over Zoom. I especially appreciate the abundance of resources I walked away with in the Google Classroom, as well as the connections with the cohort.
- I actually loved the online format. I learned a ton. I did not have to travel. I felt that I got to know the other participants. I love the collaboration, and all of shared documents.
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Holder House was very accommodating and I loved how close I could be to everything. The campus felt very welcoming.
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The environment was great, I loved exploring the campus and the food was great. Everyone was so nice & friendly.
- Is there really such a thing as too many resources? 🙂 I suppose it can get overwhelming, but I’m overjoyed at the amount of resources provided!
- Thank you for going the extra mile to make this a great and useful experience.
- Keep up the good work! So impressed with Sunbridge and all of the instructors (and participants!)
- This was my first Waldorf specific experience, but I’ve attended many professional development courses over the years and was genuinely so impressed with how this one was run. So organized, timely, tons of resources at our fingertips, really fantastic.
- Thank you so very much to everyone for their hard work to bring such a beautiful course to life. It will live in me all year.
For Assistance
Please contact Barbara Vitale, admissions and summer coordinator
[email protected]
845-425-0055 x20
Note: Barbara’s work hours are 10:00 am-2:00 pm (ET) Monday-Friday; calls received after 2:00 will be returned the next business day.