Veronica Cardosa

6TH & 7TH GRADE TEACHER

Veronica was born in Austin in 1978 and raised in Mexico City working as a visual artist. At 30 she moved to Lake Chapala, Jalisco MX, and sought a holistic approach to education for her twin daughters. There she found her calling in Steiner’s work.

She discovered the Waldorf curriculum as a homeschooling mother and quickly began a Waldorf-inspired home program with a garden for Canadian, American, and local Mexican children…10-15 children with a rich cultural immersion in the beautiful mountains of Lake Chapala. She taught grades 3-5 with a newborn baby Eli, following the practical instructions of Live Education by Rainbow Rosenbloom. Lois Schroft mentored her through anthroposophy and the threefold human being in child development.

In 2013, she moved to San Diego to become a certified Waldorf Teacher, where she had the amazing opportunity to assist master teacher, Ms. Mary Carmichael, in the San Diego Waldorf School for first and second grade. She trained in Biodynamic Practices in various courses through the years of her Waldorf Teacher Training.

After Waldorf certification, she worked full time as a Spanish teacher at Sanderling Waldorf School in San Diego County, where she taught for 6 years. 

Starting in 2015, she worked on personal development with Waldorf veteran Joseph Rubano. In 2019 her fourth daughter came to the world to open up a new impulse in her; she was  filled with new questions about education and community. She is now in her fifth year of the Spatial Dynamics training imparted by Jaimen McMillan and Katie Moran, and she is months away from being certified as an Intuitive Coach.

In 2020, her family of four girls and husband moved to Blachly, Oregon where she led an independent Waldorf initiative of 7 families, educating the parent and child together in a beautiful farm setting from spring to fall.

Veronica also works as an online Intuitive Coach supporting parents and teens through dramatic change and conflict by teaching communication skills and emotional regulation. Her experience has given her a clear vision of curriculum and pedagogy, an understanding of human development through anthroposophical principles, and a passion for rigorous and rewarding participation in faculty work. She maintains a spiritual practice that requires one to work collaboratively with colleagues, family, friends, clients and the forces of the spiritual world.

Veronica has been with Living Oaks since January 2023, teaching the 6th grade class, and is part of our Pedagogical Development Committee.