Jacob Carr
Jacob Jake” Carr is a Classroom Teacher at Blue Oak School in Chico, California, USA. He began teaching within the Waldorf pedagogy as the school’s music teacher, which he did for two years. In this role, he taught music practice and theory to nearly 400 students a year, in grades 1-8. After being completely enthralled by teaching in a Waldorf school, he was hired as the classroom teacher for a sixth grade class, which he currently is teaching seventh grade. He plans to continue teaching them through their graduation from the school at the end of eighth grade. Before teaching at Blue Oak School, he taught in various positions including Math and Language Arts in a traditional public school.
He enjoys weaving music, movement and fine arts through more rigidly academic forms, utilizing the soul expression of each to solidify learning in Language Arts, History, Mathematics and Science. He believes that after a student lives and feels an idea, the learning can more readily take place. He also enjoys re-crafting his work into other forms to provide equitable access to the curriculum for students with diverse learning needs.
Jake enjoys working in musical theater, both in front of the curtain and behind-the-scenes. With California Regional Theater, he has taught summer music theater camps to children in grades K-12. He also works as Community Director for the theater, which recently finished a very successful run of Les Miserables, one of only a handful of theaters allowed to produce this show in the United States.
One of his very favorite Steiner quotes, which encapsulates his love of teaching within the Waldorf pedagogy is “Imbue thyself with the power of imagination. Have courage for the truth. Sharpen thy feeling for responsibility of soul (Study of Man: Lecture 14)”. Through thoughts such as these, he crafts an education for his students which uplifts their intelligence, strengthens their will-forces, and lends them the inner-fortitude to walk forth, upright into their futures.
He enjoys weaving music, movement and fine arts through more rigidly academic forms, utilizing the soul expression of each to solidify learning in Language Arts, History, Mathematics and Science. He believes that after a student lives and feels an idea, the learning can more readily take place. He also enjoys re-crafting his work into other forms to provide equitable access to the curriculum for students with diverse learning needs.
Jake enjoys working in musical theater, both in front of the curtain and behind-the-scenes. With California Regional Theater, he has taught summer music theater camps to children in grades K-12. He also works as Community Director for the theater, which recently finished a very successful run of Les Miserables, one of only a handful of theaters allowed to produce this show in the United States.
One of his very favorite Steiner quotes, which encapsulates his love of teaching within the Waldorf pedagogy is “Imbue thyself with the power of imagination. Have courage for the truth. Sharpen thy feeling for responsibility of soul (Study of Man: Lecture 14)”. Through thoughts such as these, he crafts an education for his students which uplifts their intelligence, strengthens their will-forces, and lends them the inner-fortitude to walk forth, upright into their futures.
