Earlier this year Echo Horizon School was named an Apple Distinguished School for its exemplary program leveraging cutting edge technologies and teaching practices in order to prepare students for success in the 21st century. The Apple Distinguished School designation is reserved for schools that have demonstrated Apple’s highest vision of a successful 21st century learning environment.  Echo Horizon is one of 52 schools in the United States recognized as centers of educational excellence and leadership, consistently demonstrating "best practice" qualities of 21st century education utilizing Apple technology.  

 

“We are truly honored to receive this distinction,” stated Head of School Paula Dashiell. “We have focused on endowing our students with the skills necessary to face 21st century challenges.  Being acknowledged by the Apple Distinguished School program for our success in this area is an affirmation of our goals.”

 

The selection of Echo Horizon School as an Apple Distinguished School highlights its successes in enhancing and extending teaching and learning with thoughtful and innovative implementations of technology.  Under the leadership of Director of Technology Elaine Wrenn, teachers have embedded the use of technology throughout the curriculum.  “Our students and teachers use technology in ways that promote creative thinking, thoughtful exploration and problem solving,” says Ms. Wrenn. “The tools we provide allow them to connect to and collaborate with students and teachers in our school community as well to people and resources around the world.”  A long established 1:1 laptop program, access to a wide variety of hardware and software tools, and an emphasis on project-based learning and collaboration make Echo Horizon a dynamic 21st century learning environment.
 

Elliott, Jackson, Jonathan, Kevin, Ms. Wrenn (Director of Technology), Jennifer and Talia accepting for the Best Elementary Video Yearbook.

Culver City's Echo Horizon School Pre-K to 6th grade students and teachers have won over 60 awards at the California Student Media Festival, the nation's longest running student media festival. The Festival encourages project-based learning and meaningful student work in media and multimedia and exists to acknowledge and reward successful classroom work. Thousands of students from hundreds of schools across California enter the Festival every year. Echo Horizon School has submitted entries since 1997 and has won awards in several categories over the years.

 

During the 2010 Festival, EHS students won honors for Can They See Me – A Video Memoir (Language Arts), A Conversation with Butch Cassidy and Jack London (Special Ed), Friendliness (Special Recognition for Pre-K), along with an award for the 2008-2009 Video Yearbook.

Echo Horizon School has served children from Pre-K to 6th Grade throughout Los Angeles for nearly three decades. We take great pride in our strong community and our commitment to sustainability. Our goal is for our graduates to leave EHS well grounded in academics, technology and the arts, with a firm belief in themselves and their abilities, and with a keen sensibility of and sensitivity to the world around them.