Location: Ghent, New York

Level of Training: (Level I – 2023)

About:

Brian Scannell is a middle school humanities teacher at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School in Ghent, New York, Brian grew up in Georgia and from a young age was drawn to literature, the arts and music. He felt called out west for college and earned his B.A. in English literature from Montana State University. After graduation he for a number of years in outdoor education before moving to Portland, Oregon, There he worked for many years at educational non-profits until he eventually turned his focus to photography and journalism, He followed that dream out to Amman, Jordan where he worked for a variety of magazines, Brian and his wife Julies also worked on Semester at Sea, a university that circumnavigates the globe.

Brian went back to graduate school in 2014 to earn his Master’s degree in Teaching from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. and has been a high school teacher ever since. He shifted into Waldorf education in 2020 and holds a Waldorf teaching certificate from the Center for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire.

Contact Information: brianscaneell@gmail.com