Lisa spent more than 20 years teaching math at the middle school level, before joining the staff of SWS in 2005. She holds a B.A, in Philosophy from Stanford University, and has taught at a variety of public and independent schools in California, New Mexico, and Washington state, including most recently 15 years at Lakeside School, here in Seattle. She and her husband served as Peace Corps volunteers in Niger, West Africa, where they both taught for two years. Their two children led them to discover Waldorf education. For fun, Lisa most enjoys adventuring in the out-of-doors with her family.
Michael Fleming returns to his Washington roots from New Jersey to teach Sciences to our students. Michael has an MS in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics as well as a BS in Science with a biology major and a chemistry minor. Michael balances these heady scientific pursuits with a passion for art. He has been drawing since he could hold a pencil and looks forward to teaching at a Waldorf school where his training and his passion can be interwoven in his teaching.
Patricia was born in Brooklyn, New York, a child of two very musical parents. As a seventh grader at St. Athanasius elementary school, she was asked to lead the singing at church. Her artistic interests led her to the High School of Performing Arts where she learned to play viola and enjoyed the opportunity to perform as accordion soloist with professional symphonic orchestras! Working as a singer, keyboard player and music educator helped her to earn a BFA from the City College of New York and a masters degree from the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College. The years of teaching, recording, composing, arranging and performing from Brooklyn and Broadway to Nashville, inspired a move to the Emerald City. Since 1990, Patricia has earned her Ph.D. at the University of Washington School of Music, taught in Seattle Public Schools, and spent seven years working as Director of Education and Community Programs for Seattle Symphony, including responsibility for the creation and implementation of Soundbridge (Seattle Symphony Music Discovery Center). Patricia has been a Waldorf parent since 2002 and enjoys learning new ways to experience music with students, colleagues and families at SWS!
Michael was born near Philadelphia, PA and later moved with his family to a suburb of St Paul, MN where he spent most of his school years. He studied art in St Paul and Duluth, MN and Madison, WI where he earned a BS-Art degree in 1985. Michael soon moved to France to live at the monastery of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, where he met and married his wife, Geraldine. The Klines moved to Stourbridge, England where Michael completed a Waldorf Class Teacher training course. He then pioneered the Practical Arts program for grades six through twelve at the Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs, NY, as well as taught a variety of main lessons in grade six through nine for eight years, including a five-month period at the Vancouver Waldorf School during 2004. In 2006 the Klines moved to Seattle where, along with teaching, Michael continues to develop his work as a visual artist.
Neil Weinberg spent most of his life in New England in small towns with a Town Meeting form of government. A graduate of New York University, he was trained in early childhood education in the masters program at the Bank Street College of Education where he worked as a laboratory school teacher, then at Antioch/New England in counseling psychology. After working many years as a clinician, Neil studied organizational development at the Fielding Institute and worked as an OD consultant in San Francisco for eight years. His clients included Wells Fargo, SAP, Adobe Systems and Price Waterhouse Coopers. Father of two 14-year Waldorf graduates, Neil was a founding board member of the Hartsbrook Waldorf School in Hadley, MA and served on the Board of the San Francisco Waldorf School. For the past nine years he has been active in integrating the work of Rudolf Steiner in community development initiatives in the Bay Area and now in Seattle.
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