Hillary Burdette

Seventh Grade Teacher

winstone@phillywaldorf.com

Waldorf Teacher Certificate, Sunbridge Institute
MD, University of Tennessee, College of Medicine
MS, Epidemiology, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine 
BA, Psychology, Emory University

Hillary became a Waldorf teacher as a second career after being a pediatrician. She completed her pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in 2000 and then did a general pediatric fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, before returning to CHOP as a faculty member in the Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Hillary is passionate about teaching middle school students and strives to bring fun into serious classroom subjects. She has had multiple roles in Waldorf schools. While at Emerson Waldorf School in North Carolina from 2013-2015, Hillary taught High School History and then Movement and Games for Third through Twelfth Grades. At the Waldorf School of Philadelphia, she was the First Grade Assistant from 2011-2013 and then the Middle School Math Teacher from 2015-16, before becoming a Lead Class Teacher for the Sixth Grade in 2016. She graduated two Eighth Grade classes (2019 and 2020) and then taught Math to Sixth through Eighth Grades from 2020-2022 before returning to the Lead Class Teacher role for the current Eighth Grade class in 2022. She has also served as the Grades Section Chair for the past two and a half years. 

In July 2007, Hillary chose to be a full-time mother for her daughter, a year old at the time. Louella began attending Philly Waldorf at two years old and graduated Eighth Grade in 2021. While Dr. Burdette is no longer a practicing physician, she feels that being a teacher is also a healing profession, and she particularly enjoys connecting with each individual student she teaches.