Get access to two teacher-created, research-informed creative learning resources designed for real classrooms.
Inside, you’ll find:
No previous experience of Waldorf or creative pedagogies is needed. Take what’s useful and adapt it to your setting.
Complete the form to access the Practitioner Exchange where we encourage you to feedback on your experience.
This is a pilot, so your feedback matters.
Please return to leave a comment and help shape the future of our creative learning resources.
The two projects reflect the authors’ distinct professional experiences and areas of interest. Martha King is a Waldorf teacher whose background in theatre, music, animation and puppetry informs her imaginative approach to education. Now working across Waldorf homeschool and mainstream settings, she explores the role storytelling can play in creating calmer, more connected classrooms.
Kezia Luckham-Down is an Early Years Lead, staff governor and primary teacher with six years’ experience. Her work considers how seasonality can enrich classroom life and how strong, trusting relationships between teachers and school leaders can create space for thoughtful and creative curriculum development.
Explore how oral storytelling, movement, gesture, play and imagination can bring greater presence, participation and creativity into learning.
This resource includes a printable Key Takeaways page for quick reference and immediate use in the classroom. You’ll also receive a practical Storyteller’s Toolkit, alongside two video examples demonstrating different approaches to retelling stories, helping you to build your confidence, develop your technique and bring storytelling to life in your own classroom.
Discover how seasonal, cultural and natural rhythms can enrich curriculum experiences and strengthen children’s sense of connection and belonging.
This resource includes a printable Key Takeaways page for quick reference and immediate use in the classroom. You’ll also receive two bespoke Wheels of the Year—one for the Northern Hemisphere and one for the Southern Hemisphere—alongside a visual guide to the lunar phases, helping you to plan, visualise and explore seasonal teaching in your own classroom.
From phase one of a project dedicated to elevating the professional in education, a co-funded project by Bath Spa University and Waldorf Learning Foundation
These first resources have been developed by two alumni of the Postgraduate Diploma in Waldorf Education and Creative Pedagogies at Bath Spa University. They offer practical ideas and inspiration for educators to explore, adapt and make their own. As this is a pilot project, we warmly welcome feedback and examples of how the resources are being used in different settings.
The project responds to growing interest in creative pedagogies across the UK, reflected in significant work emerging from institutions including the University of Exeter and Leeds Beckett University.
As policy frameworks and core curricula continue to shift, we believe teachers need greater agency to shape their own practice. Elevating the Professional seeks to recognise and strengthen their expertise, bringing practitioner-led ideas and experience more fully into the educational landscape.
We hope to extend the project and support more educators to develop and share their practice. If you work in teacher education, research or policy and would like to explore opportunities for collaboration, please get in touch.
At the heart of the project is a simple belief: teachers are not only deliverers of curriculum. They are knowledgeable, reflective professionals whose experience can generate valuable new approaches to teaching and learning.
Yet growing pressures around accountability, workload and prescribed curricula can leave limited space for creativity and professional judgement.
Elevating the Professional explores how creative, holistic and regenerative approaches can help:
Rather than asking schools to adopt a complete alternative model, the resources translate these principles into practical starting points that educators can interpret within their own pupils, curriculum and setting.
These resources are intended as invitations rather than prescriptions. The Practitioner Exchange gives educators a place to:
Try an idea, observe what happens and return to leave a comment. Even a brief reflection will help us understand how the resources are being used, improve this pilot and shape future projects.
In this way, knowledge exchange becomes an ongoing conversation between practitioner experience, academic thinking and the realities of classroom life.
Developed from the lived experience and professional inquiry of working teachers.
Connecting classroom practice with wider educational thinking and research.
Thoughtful starting points—not another prescribed programme to implement.
Elevating the Professional is for teachers and educators who want to bring greater creativity, responsiveness and meaning into their everyday practice.
Developed with mainstream UK settings in mind—from Early Years through primary and secondary—it is also relevant to:
No previous experience of Waldorf or creative pedagogies is needed. The resources offer accessible starting points while supporting deeper professional dialogue and inquiry.
