John Keeney

Biography
John is an educator and artist with over twenty years experience in Waldorf Education. Originally from Bethesda, Maryland, he spent nearly three decades in the Chicago area, where from 1997 to 2013 he took two Waldorf elementary school classes through their first through eighth grade cycle. After spending two years working as a traveling mentor, lecturer and advisor for start-up Waldorf Schools in Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, and mainland China, John moved to Tucson, where from 2015 to 2020 he taught and worked as a pedagogical administrator. John is an accomplished artist in many disciplines including theater, music, painting and sculpture, woodworking and luthiery, as well as being a playwright and long-time lover of literature. John will teach English and algebra in Desert Sage School’s first year.