Karl Schurman

Karl Schurman teaches history, geography, literature, and English in grades 7–12 and serves as a teaching mentor. He graduated from Princeton University, studied film at New York University, earned a BS from Empire State College, and completed Waldorf high-school teacher training at the Center for Anthroposophy in New Hampshire. From 2002 to 2010, he taught primarily at Green Meadow Waldorf School in Spring Valley, New York. In 2010 he founded Monadnock Waldorf High School in Keene, New Hampshire, chaired its faculty for five years, mentored new teachers, directed fourteen plays, and taught nearly every high-school subject, especially the humanities and Chinese history. He retired from full-time teaching in June 2018. Three of his four adult children graduated from Waldorf high schools, giving him nineteen years of experience as a Waldorf parent. Their development inspired him to become a teacher after more than thirty years in the New York City film industry. Film work took him across the United States and around the world from 1973 to 2005, including two productions in China in 2005. He was also a writer and cinematographer for the 1980 PBS documentary Mother Teresa’s World. His interests include film history, French, Indigenous America, Sufi poetry, and Chinese culture. Since 2018, he has taught high-school history, geography, and English at Spring Valley Academy and in EWIP.