Betty Staley

Pedagogical Section Council of North America, Fair Oaks, CA

Betty Staley is an educator, writer, consultant, and world traveler. Most of all, she is a connector—with students in her high school and teacher education classes, with parents in workshops, with adults in biography classes, with faculties in the Waldorf schools she has helped found, with those who were stimulated by her books or videos, and with the people she has met in countries around the world. She has been a Waldorf teacher for over fifty years. As one of the founders of Rudolf Steiner College, she directed the Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program and the Public School Institute. Betty was significant in bringing Waldorf education into public schools, beginning with the Urban Waldorf School in Milwaukee in 1991. She is currently a member of the advisory board of the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education and of the Pedagogical Section Council of North America.