School Site

Licenses

We want to help you be strong!

We work with schools to bring them Waldorf Essentials curriculum with training through a site license.

For schools that would like to work with homeschoolers through their school, we offer our Homeschool Partnership. We have been dedicated homeschoolers for years, we honor the powerful fellowship that can come from a Waldorf school community. We would like to help your school bridge that gap by becoming your Waldorf homeschool partner. Learn more HERE.

School Site License

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Helping you create something wonderful.

Waldorf Essentials has helped other schools, just like yours, with our beautifully laid out curriculum and support options. We will customize to fit your specific needs. With over 15 years of studying Steiner's work, our curriculum has complete lessons that are easy to teach from. We offer our curriculum digitally with a hard copy option.

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How does this help your school?

Many schools are working hard to provide their newly trained teachers and non-Waldorf trained teachers with resources they need to be successful. With our online teacher course, we work to build confidence in the Waldorf curriculum for your teachers so they can help your school grow.

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Training and mentoring.

Our training and mentoring goes beyond what we can do for your teachers and staff - we also offer to work with your parents. Melisa is a parenting coach with more than 25 years parenting experience, she can help your families create a reliable rhythm which in turn helps your enrollment and works to bridge the gap between parents and school staff. Melisa can provide in person or live online sessions for families.

Waldorf Essentials Curriculum Provides

Steiner-centered curriculum complete with laid out main lessons. Options for both hard copy and digital.
Curriculum created from over 15 years experience with Steiner's work.
Waldorf training that includes: rhythm, inner work, form drawing, Eurythmy, festivals, drawing, painting, modeling, understanding the curriculum, reading, writing and spelling the Waldorf way and much more.
Support option with live private group coaching calls with our expert staff plus 24/7 email support as needed.

At Waldorf Essentials, our mission has always been to support families, teachers, and programs who are striving to bring meaningful, developmentally aligned education to children. Over the years, many schools, charters, co-ops, and childcare programs have requested licenses in order to use our curriculum with multiple educators or classrooms. After deep reflection on our values and the purpose behind this work, we have chosen to remove the requirement for a school site license.

We believe that high-quality Waldorf-inspired education should be accessible to the programs and teachers who feel called to use it. Rather than creating barriers or additional administrative steps, we want your focus to remain where it belongs—on nurturing the children in your care. Schools and programs may now purchase our curriculum materials just as an individual family would, and you are welcome to use them within your organization without any additional permissions or fees. Visit our Waldorf Essentials Store.

This shift reflects our trust in the integrity of the educators who choose our work. We ask that each program purchase its own copy of the curriculum so that every teacher or classroom benefits from the full content, updates, and ongoing support. Beyond that, no special licensing, reporting, or extra cost is required. Additionally, Melisa is happy to work directly with schools, charters, co-ops, or daycare programs who would like group or individual training and coaching. These professional support services are available for an additional cost and can be tailored to the needs of your faculty and environment.

We are honored to support teachers and schools around the world, and we hope this change allows you to implement our materials more freely and confidently. If your school or program requires purchase documentation or guidance on selecting the right materials, we are always here to assist. Your work with children matters deeply, and we’re grateful to walk alongside you.

Hear What Others Have to Say!

"Waldorf Essentials has been an excellent platform for professional development for our school teachers. Melisa Nielsen has shared a lot of wisdom and skill building for in person trainings as well. She and her team have made themselves available for any questions and provided fantastic service. Our teachers have given excellent feedback about the program and how helpful it’s been."
- Krystelle Rose MBA, MA, Executive Director, Founder, Mountain Sunrise Academy

"Melisa gave a powerful PD [professional development] on understanding temperaments in the classroom. This information about the 4 temperaments and how best to use the information in the class has helped to transform our learning environment. From student placement to group dynamics, the information presented and great examples, including form drawing with different temperaments, have made a world of difference. Thank you, Melisa!"

-Maryann O'Brien, 2nd-grade teacher

"It was so great to have Melisa come to train us at Mountain Sunrise Academy. She is a very talented and passionate teacher. She was so helpful for us new-to-Waldorf teachers. I would recommend her training to anyone."

-Chalice Maddox, 6th-grade teacher

"We are so grateful that Melisa took the time to travel to our school to provide such meaningful training to our faculty as well as our parent community. The wisdom that she brought, and the way she delivered that wisdom, have made a deep impact on our whole school community. Our teachers made such meaningful connections in their understanding of 'why' we do what we do in Waldorf through our days with her, which is so much more meaningful than just "what" we do. Everything is so very intentional in Waldorf Education, and having more of that knowledge has transformed their classrooms. After her parent evening at our school, many of the parents left with tears of joy. So many thanked us repeatedly for inviting her and commented that they felt so much inner transformation in the little time they had with her. Melisa has such a way of lovingly telling the blunt truth in a way that really communicates with the core being, without triggering defense mechanisms in anyone. We all need more of that in our lives. We hope to have her come to our school many times in the future and highly recommend her guidance. We feel so blessed to have had this opportunity."

-Elizabeth Bourland, Curriculum Specialist