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AHE Board Members
Mary Jo Oresti - President
Jeff Tunkey - Vice President
Peter Chin - Secretary
Joan Treadaway - Treasurer
Gerry LoDolce
Connie Helms
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John Greene
Becky Rutherford
Elyce Perico
Betty Jane Enno
Stevie Ross
Cynthia Murphy-Lang
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AHE Advisory Board
Ingun Schneider
Balazs Tarnai, Ph.D.
Ross Rentea, M.D.
Andrea Rentea, M.D.
Diana Hughes
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Mission Statement
• Advancing the quality of education, care, and health
• To bridge the expertise between the medical profession, art therapists, and
remedial professionals in the service of healing.
• To foster remedial education with the pedagogical principles of Waldorf
Education.
• To deepen and further the study of human development as described by Rudolf
Steiner and to incorporate appropriate modalities of mainstream methodologies.
• To facilitate cooperation and exchange between therapeutic educators, classroom
teachers, caregivers, parents and individuals trained in curative education.
About AHE Courses & Programs
We are in our 21st year of offering professional development programs worldwide,
and have certified 10 program cycles with over 400 participants. These teacher
education programs were initiated by AHE as a direct response to educators who
wished to understand and assist students with different learning styles in
their classrooms. The curriculum is based on developing our observational capacities and
increasing our understanding of the causes and challenges that children meet as
they find their place in life. Course content is primarily derived from the
works and influences of Dr. Rudolf Steiner, together with current research that
promotes a developmental curriculum. The Association for a Healing Education is
currently involved in four world wide certificate programs for Educational
Support teachers and parents. We also sponsor numerous workshops and conferences. As much as possible these programs are organized in conjunction with local
organizations or institutions. Current programs are being offered in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Brazil
and Spain.
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Our board members, consultants and members represent a wide variety of
professional expertise in Waldorf methods, remedial approaches, art therapy and medical interventions.
While many mainstream educators adhere to tutoring as the main focus of
practice, our mission is to promote a developmental approach for the whole
child which is aligned with the works of Rudolf Steiner and other more recent
theorists and practitioners.
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About the AHE Board Members
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rev. 2/12/2012
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Peter Chin's Waldorf class teaching experience spans more than 20 years. At the
University of Miami, he majored in Secondary Education and English Literature.
He completed his Waldorf Teacher Training in 1975, and began his career as a class teacher in Denver, Colorado. Peter
graduated from the Waldorf Remedial Teacher Training Program in 2001. He then
served as a class teacher and the educational support teacher at the Waldorf
School of Santa Barbara and held this position for several years before
relocating to Florida where he is currently a teacher at the Sarasota Waldorf
school.
Betty Jane Enno (B.S., RMT, CYT) joined the faculty of the Austin Waldorf School
in 1984. She received her Waldorf Education Teacher training in Early Childhood
and Class Teaching through the Waldorf Institute of Mercy College, and her
degree in Education and State Teaching Certification through the University of
Detroit. She has been both a Class teacher and a Kindergarten Teacher at Austin
Waldorf and is currently the Regional Representative for WECAN. She is a Member
of the Executive Board of Waldorf Teachers for the Teacher Training Initiative “Las Semimar de Estrellas” and also serves on the Board of the Austin Waldorf School.
John Greene is Faculty Administrator at the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner
School. A Waldorf and Curative Education teacher for over20 years. John and his
wife, Penni, are currently involved with a life sharing program in Stockbridge
Massachusetts, which promotes social change through local associative
partnerships. He formerly was Executive Director of the Rudolf Steiner
Institute, and the administrator at Sunbridge College in New York.
Connie Helms, M.Ed. has been working with children for thirty years. She has
taught as a special educator in public schools and as an Educational Support
teacher at the Lake Champlain Waldorf School in Shelburne, VT. She graduated
from the AHE Remedial Teacher Training in 2000. Currently she has a private
practice in Vermont doing Extra Lesson with children, adolescents and adults,
and she travels as an education consultant, workshop presenter and a teacher in
adult education. Her website is www.balanceinchildhood.com.
Cynthia Lang has been a Waldorf teacher since 1988 – at Rudolf Steiner School NYC, the Brooklyn Waldorf School and as a member of the founding faculty at New
Amsterdam Early Childhood Center. As a Waldorf early childhood educator she has taught parent/child classes, nursery and kindergarten. She assisted in the grades in Waldorf and non-Waldorf classrooms. An Educational Support teacher since 2003, Cynthia is a mentor
teacher, a consultant, and the author of Developing the Observing Eye, Teacher
Observation and Assessment in Early Childhood Education (AWSNA, 2010). She has a certificate in Remedial Education, Extra Lesson and received her MS.ed from Sunbridge College.
Gerry LoDolce has taught at Kimberton Waldorf School for 31 years. He took three
classes 1 to 8 and for the last four years, along with teaching Physics and
Chemistry and Earth Science, has carried the Extra Lesson work in the lower
school. As a member of AWSNAís Pedagogical Advisors Colloquium he has and continues to teach and mentor
Waldorf class teachers. Gerry is a graduate of Spacial Dynamics (IS3) and is currently enrolled in the
Level III training. He is also a 2006 graduate of the Sunbridge College Waldorf Remedial Teacher
training.
Mary Jo Oresti has found that teaching children and adults has taken her on a
remarkable 30 year journey in Waldorf Education. Currently, her activities
involve coordinating and instructing in five teacher development programs in
the U.S. and abroad, consulting in schools about remedial programs, and some
private work with children. She also serves as the president of AHE. Mary Jo has a masters degree from Marygove College, a Waldorf Teaching diploma,
and has studied Chirophonetics.
Elyce Perico earned a degree in Flute Performance from the Univ. of Miami in
1983, and played professionally in the Miami area. She then became, for 13
years, a Class Teacher at the Hartsbrook School in Hadley, MA. An active
participant in Care Group work, Elyce felt a profound need to deepen her
understanding of the picture of human development given to us by Rudolf
Steiner, and cultivated by many others since. In 2009 Elyce received her Master
of Arts in Education degree, with an emphasis in Waldorf Remedial Education.
Presently she is the Educational Support Coordinator at the Hartsbrook School.
Stevie Ross has a BA in English Literature from William Smith College; completed
Waldorf Kindergarten teacher training at Sunbridge College, and received her MA
in Remedial Ed. as a member of AHE Cycle 5. Her interest in children who are
encountering obstacles in development began at the Special Children’s BOCES center in Ithaca, NY, in a mixed-age, multihandicapped class. A move to
Long Island, NY led to the Waldorf School of Garden City, where she taught
Kindergarten for 22 years. Stevie is currently offering Educational Support
through Extra Lesson, conducting Second Grade Assessments and working as a
teacher mentor and evaluator.
Becky Rutherford holds a certification in curative education, a BFA and MS in
Art Therapy, as well as state certification in special education. She has been
working with children and adolescents with a variety of special needs for
thirty-five years, both in conventional and anthroposophic settings. She also
is an experienced Waldorf classroom teacher and adult educator. Becky also is
an adjunct faculty member of the M.S.Ed. program in Waldorf Remedial Education
at Sunbridge College, has been chair of the K-12 faculty at Camphill Special
School.
Joan Treadaway, a teacher consultant and mentor for over 45 years, has a private
practice, Childhood Consulting Services, in Prescott, AZ, in which she works as
a Waldorf Remedial Therapist with children and young adults, and counsels
parents. A consultant to several Waldorf schools, Joan lectures widely on
themes of childhood today. She has also worked extensively in administration
and community development, advising boards, parent groups and school
administration. She is very involved with the work of the Anthroposophical
Society in America as a member of the Western Regional Council, and of the
General Council.
Jeff Tunkey teaches both Extra Lesson and Physical Education at Aurora Waldorf
School, near Buffalo, NY. He was a member of the core group that founded AWS.
The school’s unique movement program incorporates traditional games, life sports and team
sports, weekly tumbling/gymnastics, and whole-class developmental movement
based on the Extra Lesson. Students have three or more periods a week of this
program (in addition to two periods of Eurythmy). Jeff is a graduate of the
Spacial Dynamics inservice training. His website is
www.movementforchildhood.com
