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International School of Los Angeles – LILA
The preschool through Kindergarten curriculum at the International School of Los Angeles adapts the French Ministry of Education's official program to the bicultural and bilingual context The overall goal is to allow children to grow in a happy environment where they will acquire a healthy desire for knowledge The principal anchors of our program are: 1) Developing communication skills through language and through behavior in a social context 2) Developing body and mind through physical education and artistic activities 3) Enhancing interest and natural curiosity through field trips, hands-on projects, and group work The International School of Los Angeles is a non-profit, independent, international school that offers a preschool through 12th grade curriculum that culminates in the French baccalauréat or the International Baccalaureate®’s Diploma Programme.
Le Petit Gan International Preschool
Le Petit Gan is a garden oasis preschool for children to learn in the midst of a bustling city. We incorporate yoga, nature, and gardening into our daily activities while focusing on child-centered teaching methods. Our outdoor farm (with chickens and a bunny of course!), classroom, and garden provide a special landscape for learning. We use the Reggio method to incorporate essential pre-K lessons along with caring for animals, gardening, and home-cooked meals - all while immersed in a mix of cultures and languages.
Bright Horizons Early Education and Preschool
At Bright Horizons, we know childhood is a treasured time. We believe it is our responsibility to provide environments and experiences that capture the joys of childhood, nurture each child’s individual growth and development, and pave the way for success in school and life.
Elementary School
Children’s Community School
Welcome to LA's progressive elementary school. At Children's Community School, K-6th graders are motivated, not lectured. Fueled by responsibility, not chastened by obedience. Here, children are never bored or stifled. Here, students form the building blocks of ingenuity that will reap a lifetime of rewards. Believe it or not, this is not traditional. This is not standard. This, is what progress looks like. We invite you to visit our campus so that you can see how seriously and enthusiastically our students are engaged in their learning. Sign up to take a tour today! www.ccsteaches.org/schedule-a-tour
Los Encinos School
Located in the heart of Encino on Ventura Boulevard, this much-beloved K-6 elementary school was founded in 1980 and will be celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Los Encinos School (LES) offers rich academics integrated with a comprehensive arts, humanities, technology, and science curricula. Service and inspiring change agents are big parts of the program. Los Encinos School prides itself on producing learners who love to learn, can problem-solve, and are first and foremost good people. See this gem of a school for yourself. RSVP for a weekly daytime tour, and one of the evening Open Houses (October 17 or November 13, 2019) here: https://losencinosschool.org/rsvp.
The Willows Community School
The Willows is an independent, co-educational DK through 8th grade balanced progressive school serving 470 students annually from 55+ zip codes across Los Angeles. Dedicated to inclusivity, The Willows blends challenging academics and experiential learning with social emotional learning, the arts, athletics, technology and maker. The Willows is a place where great minds grow.
Echo Horizon School
We prioritize the elementary school experience by creating a safe, inclusive place where children don’t have to grow up too quickly. With 180 students in grades Pre-K–6, our intentionally small community allows us to get to know one another beyond the surface. Echo’s diverse scholars come from 46 different zip codes within Los Angeles County and approximately 50 percent of our students identify as people of color. Our curriculum combines the best traditional practices with research-based and evidence-tested innovation and emphasizes mastery over performance. Fifteen percent of our students are deaf or hard-of-hearing. They use hearing technology and learn alongside their hearing peers. The advantage of this unique education model is invaluable: all children develop empathy, an appreciation of difference, and essential communication skills.
Middle School
Catalyst Learning Hubs
Catalyst Learning Hubs provide an engaging, future focused, and continuous learning experience. Our goal is to prepare students to thrive in a world where information is ubiquitous and where the landscape of effective communication requires agility, critical thinking, and collaboration. We seek to shift students from consumers to producers, helping them to better understand their process for design and how their ideas and creativity might affect a connected and evolving world.
Vista Charter Middle School
Vista Charter Middle School is a free, public, WASC-accredited, middle school serving the communities of Rampart Village, Echo Park and Silverlake. As part of Vista Charter Public Schools, our mission is to create a transformative 6-8 learning experience that is engaging, globally oriented, and builds a strong STEAM foundation for college and career readiness. We aim to provide a quality education for all students by focusing on both heart and mind as critical tools of student engagement in learning. Our compassionate community of global learners focuses on developing students’ knowledge and skills, as well as their attitudes, behaviors, aspirations, and beliefs for success in the 21st century economy.
College Prep
Bridges Academy
Bridges Academy is a college preparatory school dedicated to educating twice-exceptional students (gifted students with learning differences) in Grades 4-12. We believe that a program designed around the strengths of students offers the best chance of ensuring student success. Bridges Academy provides a student-centered, talent- and strength-based model to optimize each student's intellectual, academic, and social development. Bridges Academy recognizes that the cognitive, psychological and physical needs of twice-exceptional students are often profoundly different from those of their neuro-typical peers. We understand that their asynchronous development does not always follow the same pattern as their non-twice-exceptional peers. We recognize that difficulties in one or more areas do not in any way preclude the existence or the enormity of their gifts and talents in other areas.
Multi-Grade
Westridge School
Westridge is an independent school for girls in grades 4-12 dedicated to educating adventurous thinkers, and courageous, compassionate leaders. The school balances challenging academics and leadership development with nurturing students’ sense of self and emphasizing their responsibilities to others and the world. The Westridge curriculum is based on a fundamental understanding of how girls learn. Discussion and collaboration are hallmarks of the program, which is designed to build mastery in core subjects and inspire creative learners. Strengths in the humanities, sciences, and STEM fields are complemented with dynamic arts offerings and an athletic program structured to challenge top scholar-athletes and welcome all players. Westridge’s engaged and supportive student culture encourages leadership of all styles and allows students to be themselves and focus on learning.
Woodcrest School K8
For 50 years, Woodcrest School K8 has been educating the hearts and minds of our students. Our approach to learning combines a traditional education with a focus on communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. We provide a strong academic foundation accompanied by enrichment, a wide variety of electives, foreign language, and technology, the arts, PE and so much more. Our small class sizes offer the ability to individualize instruction so that every student reaches their true potential. Our students go on to the top high schools in the area and maintain their connection with the friends they made along the way. We invite you to call and schedule a tour to see for yourself how Woodcrest is Your Child’s Launching Pad to Infinite Possibilities!
Clairbourn School
Clairbourn School (preschool through Grade 8) believes in the ability of every student to achieve academic success through a balanced and competitive educational program. At all grade levels, student enjoy small class sizes and differentiated learning opportunities designed to motivate, engage, and support students to reach high levels of achievement. Students’ emotional health is prioritized to ensure a life-long foundation of inner strength, courage, and grit. Clairbourn students are well-rounded, well-spoken, academically accomplished, and confident—and these are the qualities highly desired by the best high schools. Clairbourn has a beautiful 8-acre campus, state-of-the-art security, high-tech classrooms, outdoor learning spaces, athletic facilities, a swimming pool, daycare, after-school classes, and more. Tours run from October through February of 2020. To sign up, visit www.clairbourn.org.
Sierra Canyon School
Sierra Canyon School is a complete Pre-Kindergarten through grade 12 experience that fully equips students to rethink the familiar and embrace the unknown. It is a place where ingenious teachers, intrepid students, and forward-thinking leaders work together to shape an education on the adventurous edge. Teachers create meaningful, hands-on learning experiences in the classroom, on the stage, on the playing field and court, and on life-changing journeys. Graduates are primed to excel at the finest colleges and universities, forge purposeful careers, and employ their unshakable optimism to improve the wider world. At Sierra Canyon School, our students gain unstoppable momentum to learn and explore, propelling them toward a lifetime of self-directed success.
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School is a dynamic transitional kindergarten through eighth grade educational community grounded in Jewish values. Our robust academics, outstanding faculty, and nurturing community are at the forefront of a Heschel education. We inspire our students to be independent and critical thinkers and lifelong learners. Heschel offers four bus routes throughout the San Fernando Valley including stops in Sherman Oaks, Encino, Tarzana, Woodland Hills, and Calabasas. Your child’s future is closer than you think. Quite literally. We welcome your family to an Open House to learn more and to meet our Heschel family. www.heschel.com/admissions/visit TK-5th Grades: 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Thursday, November 7, 2019 Thursday, January 16, 2020 6th – 8th Grades: 9:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Sunday, November 17, 2019
MUSE School
Founded in 2006, MUSE School CA is a private, non-profit school offering a student-centered academic curriculum for students 2.3 to 18 years of age. MUSE School’s mission is “To Inspire and Prepare Young People to Live Consciously with Themselves, One Another, and the Planet.” At MUSE, learning is alive. Interconnections are critical between students, educators, and parents. Sustainability is key on our two beautiful, green campuses in Calabasas. Lastly, MUSE is ever-evolving by embracing change and consistently challenging ourselves in our ongoing efforts to learn, grow, and improve. MUSE centers its educational philosophy on five pillars: Academics, Passion-Based Learning, Sustainability, Communication, and Self-Efficacy. Students and educators work together to build a personalized curriculum based on the students’ interests and passions.
Stratford School
At Stratford, high expectations yield extraordinary results. We start early with an advanced and intentionally balanced curriculum that challenges students and accelerates achievement. Our ever-evolving, STEAM-based (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) curriculum and teaching methods ensure students develop the diverse set of problem-solving skills and creative talents they’ll need in today’s world. Our passionate teachers cultivate a nurturing and fun classroom environment, where children feel safe and eager to try new things and fail forward. Beyond the classroom, we help students discover and define their passions through a variety of extracurricular activities, personal development and enrichment. This carefully designed approach prepares students to become tomorrow’s creative problem-solvers, imaginative innovators, and confident, insightful leaders. For additional information go to www.stratfordschools.com. Please visit our other campus in Mission Viejo at stratfordschool.com/mission-viejo.
Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles
Le Lycée (pronounced lee-say) Français (pronounced fron-say) de Los Angeles offers a challenging international education that emphasizes collaboration, research, respect, compassion, and leadership. A blend of the sciences and arts, Le Lycée’s dual curriculums (International and French Section Programs) provide each student with the ability to learn, think, and make decisions based on a sound foundation of logic, knowledge and character. Academics are balanced with art, drama, music, and sports. LyceeLA students become engaged, vibrant and productive global citizens. Offering 6 age-appropriate campuses for preschool - 12th grade in West Los Angeles and Pacific Palisades (Main Campus address listed under contact information). No Need to Speak French to enroll!
TREE Academy
TREE Academy is a new, innovative non-profit school for 6th through 12th grade students in West Hollywood. We provide both small class and individualized college-preparatory instruction for families seeking a diverse, student-centered, interdisciplinary approach to the Arts and Sciences in a community dedicated to joyful learning and service to others.
Individualized Learning Programs
Compass Charter Schools
Compass Charter Schools is a WASC-accredited TK-12 public charter school system that provides online and homeschool learning options for 21st-century scholars in California. Our cutting-edge curriculum and personalized support model allows us to develop the whole child, which is central to our mission to inspire and develop innovative, creative, self-directed learners, one scholar at a time. We are committed to guiding the parents of each scholar to ensure that they can confidently support their children. Our credentialed teachers and experienced staff are dedicated to supporting families in California that choose online learning or homeschooling to ensure that all scholars reach their full potential.
Westmark School: Grades 2-12
Grades 2-12. Open House for prospective families is Sunday, October 20, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm. Westmark School transforms lives. At every age and every grade. We spark the imaginations of our youngest learners, ignite passions in our middle school students, and illuminate futures for our high schoolers. Since our students learn differently, we teach differently. And the difference is brilliant. We specialize in providing individualized strength-based instruction for students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia and other language-based learning differences, often combined with auditory or visual processing issues and/or ADD/ADHD. Come learn about our Signature Programs: • Whole Child College Preparatory Curriculum • Integrated Use of Assistive and Educational Technology • Athletics • Electives • Service Learning • Experiential Learning • Visual, Performing and Digital Arts.