Glen Brook hosts school groups for residential visits. With winterized facilities for 75, classes can visit any time of the school year. Glen Brook staff work with teachers to tailor an experience for a class. Glen Brook staff can share the teaching with the visiting faculty, organize a stand alone program, or just provide a hostel arrangement for a program arranged by the visiting faculty.

One of the most important outcomes of a class trip to Glen Brook is the strengthening of their community. The students are expected to help with the daily chores, meal preparations and cleanup. In free time and evening there are opportunities for games and group activities which can be hard to arrange at school. Life in the dorms at night, while requiring diligence in supervision by the teachers and chaperons, can teach valuable lessons in group living. Many teachers request our popular work periods in which the students actually go out and learn how to do practical work around the farm for a period each day.

Glen Brook’s school programs are inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s vision of the development of the child. Accordingly, our program uses Steiner’s philosophy of education as a backdrop for visiting students and many of the activities are those that can be found in Waldorf schools throughout the world. Children and young adults work with their hands; they create art; they hear stories of history and legends; and they make music. As a colonial-era farm, however, Glen Brook offers a unique opportunity to visiting students by incorporating them into farm life and outdoor adventure. Each program is demanding: students rise early, feed the animals, straighten their rooms, prepare the tables for meals, sit down to meals in family-style seating, and assist in the maintenance and care of the farm’s gardens, 200-year-old buildings, and natural landscape. Glen Brook’s programs offer a blend of classroom training and outdoor stewardship and exploration.

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