During the 2001-2002 school year, I taught blocks in the 7/8 class at the Rudolf Steiner School in Rochester Hills, MI, blocks at the Whidbey Island School in the 8th grade and the Human Fertility block in the 7th grade at the Seattle Waldorf School. While working with the Whidbey 8th graders, I taught them quilting and veil painting. I also co-taught clay work whereby the students created a life size replica of the human skeleton.

In August of 2001, I reconnected with Tamara Slayton. That same month, I created Community Education to facilitate experimental and collaborative learning. Please peruse my website at www.lindaknodle.net.

Tamara mentored me through the school year 2001-2002. Also during that year, we co-taught three seminars in Ann Arbor, at the Santa Fe Waldorf School and in Sebastopol, with the themes of community and adolescence.

In the Fall of 2002, I brought the Coming of Age Program to the Waldorf Community at the Calgary school. Through spring and into the summer of 2003, I administered the Sound Circle Center’s three week summer Symposia. I hosted the event during the month of August.

Between January 2002 and February 2003, Tamara Slayton, I and Anne Marie Fryer co-wrote The I Find My Star Curriculum. Tamara and I created & managed the pre-print duties for the book. I self- published the book on February 14, 2003. We had a three year exclusive collaborative agreement.

April 16, 17, &18 2003 I gave a three day intensive- Coming of Age, Teacher Training in Seattle. March-August, Registrar & host for The Sound Circle Symposia. During October at Waldorf School of the Peninsula I presented the Coming of Age Program to the Middle School faculty. I facilitated a training for a teacher toward presenting Mother’s Circles. Also in October, I presented to the parents a social program to support their students through to the sixth grade at the Summerfield Waldorf School.

January 2004: I taught the Human Fertility block to the 7th grade at the Seattle Waldorf School. This is the fifth class of seventh graders working with the Human Fertility curriculum.

In April I hosted a weekend training in the facilitation of Coming-of age workshops for welcoming adolescence, women’s workshops, mother/daughter workshops, & men’s conversations and the I Find My Star curriculum. In September, I lead four workshops at the Waldorf in the Home Conference in Sacramento: The Needs of Youth-Body, Soul & Spirit; Recognizing the Threshold of Puberty; Gender Issues: K through 8th; and Sex Education- When & How?

August brought me to the Sound Circle Symposia where I lead a three day workshop for teachers on adolescent themes.

I taught the Human Fertility block to the Madrona Waldorf School eighth grade in October. Also in October, I worked with the community at the Bright Water School in a morning workshop and a Sunday forum concerning adolescent themes.

I continued to provide mentoring and workshops with schools, teachers, parents, mothers, daughters and fathers around the themes of coming of age, adolescence and sexuality. I worked with the Whidbey Island School, the Three Cedars School, San Francisco Waldorf School, and the Madrona Waldorf School. I created and taught a Life Skills block for the eighth grade class at the Madrona School. I presented a keynote talk, Navigating the Terrain of Sexuality (on audio), at the April Waldorf in the Home Conference in Sacramento. I facilitated three workshops- Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage (on video), Building Mother/Daughter Relationships & Family Values. I just completed a Life Skills curriculum for eighth grade, and written a conversation toward creating modern rites of passage. I am rewriting and updating the Human Fertility curriculum.

I completed a three year collaborative agreement with co-authors of I Find My Star Curriculum. Book out of print. Taught Geometry to sixth graders at the Aurora Waldorf School, Anchorage and gave a day long workshop for parents and teachers on Adolescence: Coming of Age. I revised my Human Fertility Curriculum, began authoring Lessons for Middle School Issues curriculum and publications for a Rites of Passage series. Created and facilitated a Rite of Passage for Elder Women: A Croning Ceremony. Created and facilitated a memorial service for a Waldorf teacher and close friend.

In March, I co-taught, with Jennifer Beal-Quinn, the Human Fertility block of study to the seventh grade at the Bright Water Waldorf School in Seattle. I took this opportunity to fine tune the lesson plans. Bennett & Hastings published Human Fertility Curriculum for 7th and 8th graders released July 2007.

I have presented the complete Human Fertility Curriculum to six seventh grade classes and parts of the social work in sixth and seventh grades over the past 10 years. I was Class teacher for a Waldorf seventh grade from February until June. I completed my first commissioned watercolor painting in July. In August, Bennett & Hastings published the second in a series of curricula for 8th & 9th graders- Lessons for Middle School Issues.

I have decided to step away from classroom teaching and to give myself space for what may come to me from the future. I will self publish, market, take orders and distribute both Human Fertility and Lessons for Middle School Issues under Bennett and Hastings as Coming of Age Press. Continuing to research and write, on the themes of relationships, rites of passage and woman’s personal development.

Two Herons Guest House in Seattle is a new venture for me and my husband, Robert.