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The Online Grade Five Conference
June 1 to September 30
December 1 to February 28

With Eugene Schwartz & Meg Chittenden

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Conference Dates:
June 15 through September 30
December 1 through February 28
You choose any 14-day period convenient for you.
Conference Fee: USD $350
Conference Setting: Your Computer or Mobile Device

Click here for detailed Lecture/Presentation Contents
Click here to register for Grade 5

Why an Online Conference?

The intense summer conference schedule means that a great deal of meeting time must be squeezed into a few short weeks and a handful of conference locales. We frequently have to lament that our conference presenters could only be in one place at one time . . .
. . . until now, that is! Today’s Internet makes it possible to overcome at least some of the limitations of space and time, and it makes it possible to offer an
Essential Grade Five Conference – online! Five years of enthusiastic participation by Waldorf teachers worldwide have proven that the online format is an effective and efficient way to gain the breadth and depth needed for the school year to come.


“But I’m not good with computers!”

Don’t worry! The Intensive “interface” is completely user-friendly! Our Intensive support team is as close as an email, text, or phone call. The over 1700 participants in our six years of the Online Conferences have experienced very few difficulties, and most were resolved in just minutes. You do need good broadband access to the Internet and we recommend Firefox and Safari as the most reliable Web browsers for this Conference.

Your Tuition . . .

The tuition for the conference week is US $350.00. That is all that you pay. Since you are participating from your home or school, there are no travel expenses, no accommodations expenses, no dining expenses. Many of you would have to considerably more than this amount to attend a Grade Five conference in a training center.

This is how it will work:

Once you have chosen the 14-day period convenient to you, you will receive links to over 25 hours of lectures and presentations by Eugene Schwartz (Click here for Lecture/Presentation Topics). Most of these will be links to audio files of 15 - 20 minute lectures. Several of the links will lead to videos in which Fifth Grade student work will be illuminated by commentary on the Grade Five curriculum. Meg Chittenden will be sharing many songs for the 5th Grade classroom, and Eugene Schwartz will re-examine the notion of Grade Five as the “golden year of childhood”

And this is when:

All of the lecture/presentations will be available online during your fourteen-day participation period from
June 1 to September 30 or December 1 to February 28. This means that participants can listen to the content whenever they wish, and as often as they wish, for fourteen days. (How often have you taken notes as rapidly as possible at a lecture and wished in vain that you could hear it again?)
And yes, there will be handouts. PDFs of relevant Grade Five resource material will be available for you to download during the conference weeks.

. . . and Your Savings

View our Cost Comparison video.
In these challenging economic times, such savings can make a significant difference. And no other Waldorf conference will allow you to leave such a small carbon footprint.
We hope that you will join us!

Click here for detailed Lecture/Presentation Contents
Click here to register for Grade 5

Register for Grade 5


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