In its ninth academic year, Golden Bridges School is a small, innovative institution. GBS was established by teachers with Waldorf training and now has 42 employees and 131 kids enrolled in preschool through seventh grade in San Francisco's Portola area. Next school year, our first eighth-grade class will graduate!
GBS is reexamining Waldorf education by examining what San Francisco's current youth require from educators and education in general. The creation of a strong outdoor curriculum is one important outcome of this inquiry. We have three days in an indoor classroom, one day at our urban farm, and one day hiking in McLaren Park per week for our kindergarteners. Main Lesson and certain topic courses are held indoors, with extra days spent on field trips, at the school farm, or in spacious outdoor parks. Every week, first and second graders frequently spend a whole day outside in San Francisco's parks. We are also devoted to transforming into an open, inviting, and anti-racist school that is dedicated to social justice both inside and externally. Our weekly faculty meetings integrate social justice and anthroposophy, delving deeper into disrupting Eurocentric and white-centric curricula to introduce anti-racist policies and equitable teaching methods into the classroom and school life Geometry Dash Subzero. We encourage educators to be curious and to pursue anthroposophy and social justice.