The community of adults in a high school environment is a community of trust in which we need to foster hope, belief in positive change, and commitment to serve the highest good. This is our charge, and we must never forget it. We have the responsibility to believe in the capacity for change, for maturing, for transformation in every young person we serve. When these qualities live in the soul of the adults in a high school community, adolescents can thrive, can meet their own dark night of the soul and come through it into the light.

Adolescence: Sacred Passage

Parenting & Relationships

Staley, Betty K.

Parenting

Rudolf Steiner College Press

This work invites you to weave a design for your soul's journey, bringing together the colors and textures of your personality to reveal its pattern and meaning. A comprehensive introduction to the temperaments, archetypes and soul qualities as defined by Rudolf Steiner, Soul Weaving helps us to better understand ourselves and our relationship to the world.

Soul Weaving: How to Shape Your Destiny and Inspire Your Dreams

Rudolf Steiner College

Africa: A Guide for Teachers and Families

Africa: A Guide for Teachers and Families is a carefully organized resource for teaching children and adolescents about African culture. This book is divided into geographical regions so each can be highlighted and contrasted. The songs, fairy tales, mythologies, biographies, art, and recipes are highlighted with practical activities for each grade including kindergarten. This is an invaluable book for teachers in elementary and high school as well as for home school parents. Based on this extensive, well-researched book, Waldorf teachers have created a full unit on Africa. Teachers and parents will welcome this updated and expanded 2022 edition of the successful book, Hear the Voice of the Griot!.\nThis new and exciting edition makes the music, history, animals, and people of Africa come alive – as well as offering things you can make and do. Check out the interactive connections to YouTube videos, bringing Africa into your home and classroom.

History

Africa

Wise Oak Press

A Bit of Heaven on the Earth: A Meadowland Fable

Betty Staley, author of books on child, adolescent, and adult development writes this delightful meadowland fable in which the creatures try to guess the owl's riddle-Too hoo, too hoo, a bit of heaven on the earth. Children will join to solve the riddle as each creature takes a turn. As often happens in real life, it is the lowliest creature whom others put down who is the real hero. At the end of the story, children learn how they can reveal the bit of heaven on the earth by themselves.

Children's Books

Animals

Between Form and Freedomÿhas a wealth of helpful insights about teenagers, offering a wise look into the souls of children and adolescents. Betty Staley invites you to explore the vibrant nature of adolescence ? the search for the self, the birth of the intellect, the release of feeling, male?female differences and character.

Between Form and Freedom: Being a Teenager (Holistic Parenting and Child Health)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Hawthorn Press

Review\n“An excellent book, that is enlightening, inspiring and an essential guide for parents and teachers of adolescents. With a wide range of experience and expertise, Betty Staley offers a wise and practical approach in how we can support developing adolescents to tackle the many changes and current issues facing them in these challenging times of learning to become an adult, such as power, relationships, self-esteem, alcohol, drugs, body image, social media. Examples from adolescents, nutshell summaries for each chapter and study questions are interesting and helpful, promoting reflection, discussion and guidance for action.” -- ―Robin Steele PhD. Mother of adult children, grandmother of adolescents, retired early childhood teacher, parent educator, Psychophonetics psychotherapist & trainer\n“Betty Staley’s book is a must-have for all parents of teenagers Her calm wisdom about teenagers and the incredible depth of her knowledge will reassure any parent perplexed or struggling with their teenager. She can enable parents to know how to help their teenager navigate the complex world of adolescence and come out the other side strong in their own identity, participating in life and contributing to others.” -- ―Caroline Penney, systemic family therapist and author of The Parenting Toolkit: simple steps to happy and confident children\n“It’s a rare book about teens that becomes more and more relevant as time goes on. This is not just one of them, it is the one. Whenever I am asked by parents trying to unravel their teens behavior―‘Is that normal?’―I recommend Between Form and Freedom with a confidence that it will give them the understanding they need, to open up a path toward deeper and enduring connection with their child.” -- ―Kim John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting\n“[Between Form and Freedom] will make you more open and alive to the young people you love, and that will make many good things happen.” ―Steve Biddulph (foreword) 
This is the third and fully revised edition of this bestselling book. Betty Staley tackles challenges related to self-esteem, pregnancy, behavioral problems, stress, depression, media, genderfluidity, eating disorders, and drug and alcohol abuse. She also explores developmental needs in connection with family, friends, media, education, the arts, loyalty, and relationships. 
Countless parents have come to value this wise, practical guide, in which Betty Staley uniquely discusses teenagers’ soul and spiritual needs at the time of life when the quest for meaning is extremely vital. 
This book . . .• discusses ways that adolescents present either the “mask” or the “volcano” as they struggle with identity and self-esteem; 
• tackles current questions of gender fluidity and identity, eating disorders, media addiction, and more; 
• shares teenagers’ voices, stories and experiences; 
• opens windows to the changing inner life of developing teenagers; 
• is accessible and easy to read, with nutshell summaries and questions for reflection and action; 
• is welcomed by parenting voices such as Steve Biddulph, Caroline Penney and Kim John Payne.

Between Form and Freedom: Raising a Teenager (Hawthorn Press Parenting)

Teen & Young Adult

"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold. "The geographical position, and the height of the land combined to create a landscape that had not its like in all the world. There was no fat on it and no luxuriance anywhere; it was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet, like the strong and refined essence of a continent."-- Isak Dinesen ------------------------ This comprehensive guidebook to Africa is a carefully organized resource for teaching children and adolescents about African culture. It is divided into geographical regions so that each can be highlighted and contrasted. The songs, fairytales, mythologies, biographies, art, and recipes are highlighted with practical activities for each grade including kindergarten. This is an invaluable book for teachers in elementary and high school, as well as for homeschool parents. Based on this extensive, well-researched book, Waldorf teachers have created a full unit on Africa. Teachers and parents will welcome this revised edition. Hear the Voice of the Griot! Extensively illustrated in black and white. ------------------------ C O N T E N T S Foreword 1992 Preface 1992 Preface 2017 Acknowledgments Introduction How to Use this Book Section One: African Geography Section Two: African History Section Three: Regions of Africa Section Four: The Inner Africa Section Five: Fairy Tales, Fables, Myths, and Poems Section Six: Saints and Other Holy Figures Section Seven: Other Aspects of African Culture Conclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Africa: A Teacher's Guide: Ethnography, Geography, History, Culture, Stories, Art

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Bell Pond Books

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Books by Staley, Betty K.

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Adolescence: Sacred Passage

Soul Weaving: How to Shape Your Destiny and Inspire Your Dreams

Africa: A Guide for Teachers and Families

Africa: A Guide for Teachers and Families

A Bit of Heaven on the Earth: A Meadowland Fable

A Bit of Heaven on the Earth: A Meadowland Fable

Between Form and Freedom: Being a Teenager (Holistic Parenting and Child Health)

Between Form and Freedom: Raising a Teenager (Hawthorn Press Parenting)

Africa: A Teacher's Guide: Ethnography, Geography, History, Culture, Stories, Art