Alexa Krakauskas

Alexa is known for her ability to lovingly shape and form her classes and provide engaging learning experiences that keep students enthusiastic throughout their lower grades experience. Her background in therapeutic education and her interest in differentiated learning support her work with individual students as well as with the class as a whole. You will find Alexa and her class outdoors each morning – singing, passing beanbags, and folk dancing, regardless of the weather. Alexa has completed a 1st-4th grade teaching loop and will be welcoming a new group of first graders for the 2023-2024 school year. Her return to first grade will be the third time nurturing, shaping, and teaching a first grade class.

In addition to teaching in the grade school, Alexa’s tenure at DWS includes three years of teaching high school science, utilizing her doctorate from Cornell University in veterinary medicine to instill a passion for the biological sciences and a true love of animals. This high school experience helps to inform her of not only where the students are as they begin first grade, but also where they are eventually headed as they mature and move towards graduation from DWS in twelfth grade.

Alexa is held in high esteem by her colleagues as a faculty leader, sitting on the College Leadership Council and on the DWS Board of Trustees as a faculty trustee. Prior to joining the DWS community, Alexa was part of the faculty, as well as being a parent, at the Waldorf School of Philadelphia and at Mountain Phoenix Community School. Alexa holds a Waldorf teaching certificate in Elementary Education from Sunbridge Institute.

Alexa is a mother of four children. Three of her children currently attend DWS and her oldest graduated from DWS. In her spare time, Alexa enjoys being in the mountains with her family, taking long hikes with her two dogs, puttering around with her chickens, and gardening.