Sharifa Oppenheimer

Sharifa Oppenheimer was the founding teacher of the Charlottesville Waldorf School where she taught kindergarten for twenty-one years, and is the founder and director of The Rose Garden, a home based early childhood program in Virginia. She has helped develop new teachers through mentoring and show more offering practicum and internship opportunities to the teacher-training students at Sunbridge College in New York, as well as students in the LifeWays trainings. Sharifa travels around the world, offering lectures and workshops to teachers, school and parent groups and encouraging all to discover their own healthy, heartfelt Family Culture. Sharifa is the mother of three grown sons, who were educated in the Waldorf tradition. She lives with her husband in an enchanted forest in Virginia. She is the author of the bestselling Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children (SteinerBooks, 2006), which has been translated into Taiwanese and Chinese and is also a bestseller in those countries. Sharifa is also author of How to Create the Star of Your amily Culture: The Heaven on Earth Workbook (SteinerBooks, 2015). She also worked collaboratively to create the book What Is a Waldorf Kindergarten (SteinerBooks, 2007). show less