A North Carolina native,  Rebecca Foster is a certified Waldorf Early Childhood Teacher.  She gained her Waldorf Teacher certification in 3 years, in the full immersion teacher-training at the Waldorf Teacher Training Eugene, within the Eugene Waldorf School in Eugene, Oregon. Rebecca was raised in a home which honored imaginative play and that respected the sanctity of childhood. Rebecca comes by her teaching gifts naturally; her mother was an early childhood educator and was the director and teacher of many preschools in NY, Boston and Chapel Hill, NC, going on to work for nearly 30 years as an Early Childhood Consultant for families, children and teachers in Raliegh, NC. Rebecca brings 21 years of experience as a Waldorf Early Childhood teacher, and has spent countless hours observing and mentoring other teachers in Waldorf classrooms. In addition, she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development and Human Development and has studied deeply the work of child development experts such as Jean Piaget, David Elkind, Joseph Chilton Pearce, and Kim John Payne in addition to her studies in Steiner education.  She is the mother of a wonderful, kind, and free-spirited 21 year old son and she has found motherhood to be a great joy as well as a wonderful way to learn about and study the growing human being. Rebecca has a deep calling to connect children with the natural world, and she is especially passionate about plants.  Rebecca has been a certified herbalist for 27 years. She loves to paint, draw, hike, backpack, sleep under stars, swim, dance, white water raft, basket weave, sing and live wild and free.