David S. Mitchell

David Mitchell was a Waldorf teacher for thirty-six years. He was a class teacher and a founding teacher of the Pine Hill Waldorf School in Wilton, New Hampshire. He taught life sciences, Shakespeare, geometry, blacksmithing, woodworking, and stone sculpture in Waldorf high schools for thirty-six years. An adjunct professor at Antioch College, he served as a leader in the Association of Waldorf Schools in North America (AWSNA) in various capacities since the 1980s. In 1997, the Amgen Corporation selected him as one of the top two teachers in the state of Colorado. Then he was the chair of publications for AWSNA and serves as the co-director of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education. He edited scores of books over the years and is the author of Will-Developed Intelligence; Windows into Waldorf; The Wonders of Waldorf Chemistry; and 25 Plays, and Resources for Waldorf Teachers (all from AWSNA), as well as a contributor to The Inner Life of the Earth from Lindisfarne Books.