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Deborah A. Bishop
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Deborah A. Bishop has been teaching handwork at the Cape Ann Waldorf School since 2001 and has been an active member of the Cape Ann School community since 1997. Ms. Bishop taught Interior Design at Endicott College for six years as an adjunct faculty member in the Art Department. She was the director of interior design for Winter Street Architects in Salem, MA, and while at the firm of Lloy Hack Associates, in Boston, MA, she won the 1996 I.I.D.A. Will Ching Award. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Design Resource Management from the University of Connecticut.
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Heather Collis-Puro’s family first discovered the Cape Ann Waldorf School five years ago, when she began Parent and Child Classes with her one-month-old daughter. Her daughter is now in first grade, this allows her to give back to the school as an assistant handwork teacher in the grades. Heather received her BA in Political Science and English from the University of Richmond in 1990 and for ten years she was employed by the Fund for Public Interest Research as an organizer, recruiter and Citizen Outreach Director. She learned to knit, sew and embroider at an early age and takes every opportunity to add to her repertoire of handwork. Heather and her family live in Lynn.
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Anne Carignan
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Anne Carignan teaches first and third grade handwork. She has taught knitting, crocheting, embroidery and rug hooking at The Village Card, Gift and Yarn Shop, which she owned and operated in Cambridge, MA. She completed an M.S. in Counseling from Indiana State University while working as a Research Assistant in the educational Psychology Department. Mrs. Carignan received her Massachusetts Teaching Certificate from Lesley College Graduate School and was a public and private school teacher in the late 70s and 80s. She has a Waldorf Teacher Training Certificate from Antioch Graduate School and is a graduate of the Remedial Training Program at Rudolf Steiner College in California. Anne Clare and her husband Forest live in Bedford with their daughters, both graduated from The Waldorf School in Lexington.
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Ms. Helmick came to the Cape Ann Waldorf School as a parent when her daughter was in second grade (that daughter has now graduated from Elon University). Ms. Helmick has taught English in the CAWS middle school for five years, and worked as a class teacher for two years. She has a bachelor's degree in Social Studies from Harvard/Radcliffe College and a master's degree in Environmental Health/Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University, and she completed the Waldorf High School teacher training in life sciences (ABD). Ms. Helmick currently teaches English in the eighth grade.
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Brian Macdonald, a graduate of UMass-Amherst, has taught at CAWS since 1993. He is currently the sixth grade class teacher. Mr. Macdonald received his teacher training at Hawthorne Valley School in Harlemville, NY, where he taught physical education and high school English. He received his Bothmer and Spacial Dynamics training with Jaimen McMillan, Co-Director of the Bothmer Gymnastics School in Stuttgart, Germany, during the first U.S. training session, held at Kimberton Waldorf School in Pennsylvania. Mr. Macdonald has over nineteen years of experience in Waldorf schools, and has taught in the teacher training program of Antioch New England Graduate School in Wilton, NH. He resides in Salem with his wife, a former Waldorf kindergarten teacher, and is the father of three children.
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Tyler Macdonald
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Tyler Macdonald is the Physical Education teacher at the Cape Ann Waldorf School for grades one through eight. He has completed the five-year training program in Spacial Dynamics in New York, taught by Jaimen McMillan, founder of the training that began in Germany. Mr. Macdonald is also enrolled at Salem State College in Salem, MA, where he is studying Physical Education and Coaching. He graduated from the Cape Ann Waldorf School in 1996 and from Salem High School in 2000.
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Kati Manning
Kati Manning has taught German and/or Spanish at the Cape Ann Waldorf School since 1988. Currently she is the German teacher for grades one through eight. She received her BA from Bowdoin College and continued post graduate studies in elementary and high school education at Salem State University. Ms. Manning is actively working in mentoring and training foreign language teachers in Waldorf schools across North America. She works with many of the local public schools as well as home schooled students and adults. Ms. Manning lives in Gloucester with her husband and their three children.
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Mary Mansur
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Mary Mansur has a B.S. in Early Childhood Education and a certificate in Waldorf teaching from Antioch New England Graduate School. Ms. Mansur has been part of the CAWS community since 1994 and has been teaching at CAWS since 1998, She is the Yellow Rose Kindergarten teacher. An experienced puppeteer, Ms. Mansur also leads the Waldorf Magical Strings Puppet Theatre. She has three sons, and she and her husband are beekeepers, candlemakers, and proprietors of Tomten Beeworks in Ipswich.
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Dianne McGaunn
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Dianne McGaunn received her Waldorf Certification from Sunbridge College. She taught at the Waldorf School of Princeton, prior to moving back to the Boston area where she was born and raised. Before becoming a teacher, Dianne received her B.B.A. in Business from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and her M.S. in Computer Information Systems from Bentley College. She spent several years working in corporate settings. She is currently the first grade teacher, and she lives in Topsfield with her husband and two sons, who both attend CAWS.
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Virginia McWilliam
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Virginia McWilliam grew up in England. She holds a BS in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the University of Nottingham. Her wish to spend a year doing service work brought her to the Camphill Special School, Beaver Run, in Pennsylvania. There she studied curative education and worked with children with disabilities. She attended the Antioch New England Graduate School, graduating with an MA in Education and a Waldorf Education Certificate. She has taken a class from 1-8 grade at CAWS and another from 4-8. During a recent sabatical she helped train Waldorf Teachers at Antioch College in New Hampshire, mentored and consulted for the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America, and spent six months in South Africa teaching at a Waldorf School for children living in a squatter town. Virginia currently teaches eighth grade at CAWS. She is married and the mother of three children.
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Caroline Mercier
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Caroline Mercier was born and raised in New Jersey. She attented Pfeiffer College in North Carolina where she studied Early Childhood Education. She was trained in Waldorf Education by Susan Weber and Rena Osmer at the Monadnock Waldorf School in New Hampshire and completed course work in the Early Childhood associates program at Sunbridge College, Spring Valley, NY. She has been with CAWS Early Childhood program since 1995. She assisted and was mentored by master teacher, Nancy Lindeman, for three years. She is currently the lead teacher in the Red Rose Kindergarten. Caroline has four children, ages 5-20. Three have attended CAWS from nursery through eighth grade and the youngest attends kindergarten at CAWS.
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Karl has been the head coach for the HAWKS girls’ basketball program since its inception fourteen years ago. He has a long history with the school since he is one of its founding parents, having had two sons graduate from CAWS. He has served on the Board and on various committees in the school, as well as taken part in the Holiday Fair and the Shepherd’s Nativity Play. Karl especially enjoys the teaching aspects of the game of basketball, helping the girls develop both the fundamentals of the sport and a love for the game. Seeing all the girls improve on their individual and team skills and their self- confidence as players is very rewarding.
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Laura Quayle
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Laura Quayle grew up in the Adirondack Mountains of New York and received her B.A. in Government at Dartmouth College. She has worked on several organic goat and vegetable farms, played the flute in a variety of ensembles, and taught French and Spanish for the Rassias Foundation. After graduating from college, she taught Spanish at the Desert Marigold School in Phoenix and returned to the East coast this year to teach the 3rd grade class at the Cape Ann Waldorf School. She is currently working towards a master's degree in Waldorf education at Sunbridge College.
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Stephen Sheen has been a Waldorf teacher since the early 1960’s. He took two grades through from first to eighth at the Michael Hall Waldorf School in England. In 1988, he came to the Cape Ann Waldorf School where he took a grade from first to third. He then returned to Michael Hall School where he continued work with the grades. His deep belief in Waldorf education began as a child as he attended Michael Hall from kindergarten through grade twelve. He then studied Life Sciences at Keele University, followed by state and Waldorf teacher training. In 1996, Mr. Sheen visited the Cape Ann Waldorf School with his eighth grade from England and accepted an offer to take over the fourth grade here in January 1997. Now Mr. Sheen is engaged in mentoring work and teaches woodworking at the Cape Ann Waldorf School.
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Stephen Smith
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Stephen Smith, Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Performance, is a member of the CAWS music faculty and Director for the CAWS Orchestra. He was the cellist of the Egmont Piano Trio for over twenty-five years; giving over three hundred concerts throughout New England. In addition to his work at CAWS, Mr. Smith is Director of Music at the Waring School and is principal cellist of the Cape Ann Symphony. Prior to his work at CAWS, Mr. Smith was faculty member of St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH, and Artistic Director of the Greater Manchester (NH) Youth Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Smith has been at CAWS since 1989.
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Susan White
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Susan White began her career as a professional dancer and performed in Boston and New York for over 10 years. She was on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory and taught at Boston University. Later, after a three year training program, Susan worked at the Muscular Therapy Institute as Dean of Faculty, developing curriculum and new programs; ran the Teacher Training Program; taught as well as maintained a private practice. Susan began working at CAWS after participating in a Waldorf-inspired home-school Cooperative. She completed three years of foundation studies through the Center for Anthroposophy at Antioch College. She has taught handwork and currently teaches Nursery and Parent and Child programs. Susan has been teaching for over 30 years. She and her husband Guy have a daughter in the fourth grade at CAWS and reside in Magnolia.
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Vanya Yoors
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Vanya Yoors grew up in New York City. He studied Environmental Education with the Audubon Expedition Institute and spent a year studying Tibetan language and collecting Tibetan folk songs in Nepal under the auspices of the University of Wisconsin. He then received his B.A. in Waldorf Education from the Rudolf Steiner College. He taught for four years at the Eugene Waldorf School in Oregon before coming to the Cape Ann Waldorf School in 1996 to take on a fourth grade class. After graduating that class, he began with a new group of Cape Ann Waldorf School first graders and stayed with them through seventh grade. Mr. Yoors is currently the second grade teacher.
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