Wonder Garden Teacher

After a career in publishing, Vicki joined Prairie Hill in 2003 and became Prairie Hill's Playgroup Coordinator, staffing and leading playgroups for parents and toddlers six mornings a week. Vicki started and taught our flourishing Summer Garden Program, and is currently teaching in Wonder Garden. Her daughter Brianna and son, Jacob are both Prairie Hill graduates.

Vicki has a B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Massachusetts, and has her teaching certificate from Great Lakes Waldorf Institute and LifeWays Early Childhood and Human Development Program. She continues to participate in a wide variety of Waldorf education conferences, workshops and classes; and wholeheartedly learns more from the children than anything else!

Miss Vicki welcomes our Wonder Garden (Pre-K) students to school with kindness, loving guidance, and a reassuring shythm to help families make the transition as gentle as possible. She hopes the students leave her classroom with a strong sense of belonging in their bodies and communities, the beginnings of tools for emotional understanding, and the confidence to know that what they bring into the world doesn't need to be perfect to be meaningful.

“Receive the children in reverence, education them in love, and send them forth in freedom." - Rudolf Steiner

Every aspect of the Waldorf curriculum contains the gift of being powerfully transformative. It begins with the way we respect, love, nurture and treasure your young child and protect their Childhood (capital “C”, as it is such a sacred time).

Meaningful work and creative play in a structured and rhythmical environment is the foundation upon which a healthy life is developed. Here children learn and practice their social skills such as patience, sharing, asking, thanking and helping those in need.