Ues school los angeles

You don't have to be a crunchy tree-hugger to be happy here. My wife and I trend conservative but have no major complaints. Ultimately my kid is happy to go to school everyday and is learning a lot.

Anonymous F. November 22, 5 Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School. My son has been under the UCLA umbrella since he was two years old.

First he attended University Village then thankfully got into U. He is doing so well, and I love that they do the math and science in English.

I will keep my son there as long as I can. Yvette G. April 10, 5 Corinne A. My children, a boy and a girl, attended UES between There are so many reasons the school is among the best. Here are few: 1. The curriculum is research based. There is good reasoning behind every offering and teaching practice. The goal is to produce students who love to learn. If you love learning and are excited about knowing more, you will succeed in a rapidly changing world.

The administration and teachers are brave professionals. They are willing to question and analyze every methodology. They share the work of their students - both the most successful and the most challenged - to find ways to meet the learning needs of each child. They support each other.

Writing across the curriculum, integration of art into all aspects of learning, learning in two languages, teaching science from pre-k through 6th are a few of the curricular strengths. Much of the learning and work take place outdoors, so children don??

The teachers work with neurotic over-achieving parents as well as those who can only get their children to school because they work two or more jobs to support children with vastly different backgrounds.

They bring each student to exceptionally high levels of learning and skill. They take care of the basics. The Stanford 1 Math scores of graduates mostly exceed expectations and the rest achieve a high proficient level; students, who enter with English as a second language, graduate with strong English skills; everyone knows how to pose a good question and find an answer; most students read above grade level.

The school staff pay attention to the whole child and recognize that art, music and drama are equally important in the lives of children. They teach social skills and internal disciplines with the goal of giving students skills to navigate middle and high school society.

Discipline for misbehavior is about improving skills not about punishment. Students are taught?? The Rules of The Road.? The staff are culturally sensitive without being obnoxiously politically correct.

Most parents rise to the occasion and welcome the diversity. Parents contribute to the school social events in which the food and fellowship abound. When someone needs help, the Family School Alliance is there to pitch in. Parents are welcomed into the school more fully than any other school I??

Scholarship and financial assistance is strictly confidential. At school everyone gets the same opportunities to participate. Children socialize across class and cultural lines and parents follow their lead. Because visitors are frequent, there's a transparency in each classroom.

It's a creative community. Teachers and students have lots of fun. The field trips are fantastic. Swimming in a kelp forest, going to San Francisco, etc. If all public schools were like UES we wouldn't have overlowing prisons. January 01, 5 Corinne A. This school is hands down, one of the best elementary schools in Los Angeles. I know this because I am a graduate of U.

Here are the reasons why U. You won't find an elementary school as racially, financially, and mentally diverse as U. Because it was so diverse, by age 12, I already knew how to sing songs in Hebrew, Chinese, Spanish and knew more about African American, and Native American history than students in most high schools. Not to mention, even though there were children whose parents were nearly billionaires, sitting at the same desks as children whose parents worked at McDonald's, everybody got along great.

Two huge play yards! They're amazing! Many things have changed about the playgrounds since I graduated in , but they're still pristine. What other school has a small stream running through, a redwood forest, and wild greenery? Recess is like summer camp! Group cooperation, and yet also, individuality is strongly encouraged. The school's focus is not solely on the academic success of the child or always being " 1" for everything, it's focused on the child's well-being, self confidence, and teaching the child how to cooperate in a group of kids of all different backgrounds and types.

Music, culture and art is a huge part of U. A huge reason why I am an artist today is because of my art classes at U. Like I mentioned above, from day one at Seeds, we're taught about all different kinds of cultures through art and song, making it fun, memorable and educational. The way they teach us about the world and it's people makes you want to learn more about them. I think that was one of the best parts of U.

Since U. Seeds is a truly laboratory school in that sense! Anyway, if you're thinking about applying to U. I had the best time there! Naomi D. It combined an elementary school, research lab, and teacher training center in a setting that advocated progressive ideas on education, in particular the "learning by doing" philosophy of John Dewey.

The principal, Corrine A. Seeds, wanted the school to have an architectural design that would facilitate these ideas, and chose architects Robert E.

Alexander and Richard Neutra to carry it out. Neutra in particular was well known for his progressive viewpoint on educational designs, especially the breaking down of divisions between interior and exterior spaces. The University Elementary School is a great expression of this perspective, starting with its location straddling a wooded ravine with a small stream running through it.

The two sections of the campus sit on either side of the ravine, leaving the natural space undisturbed for use as a learning environment.

On one side is the Elementary Training School, its original one-story building designed by Robert Alexander and completed in In , two separate one-story additions designed by Neutra and Alexander were added to the building; one wing is a cluster of four classrooms around a central hall, each with its own porch, patio, and outdoor workstation accessed with sliding doors.

The other wing, an arrangement of classrooms in linear wings with courtyards in between, was demolished in On the other side of the ravine is the Nursery-Kindergarten building, designed by Neutra and Alexander and completed in This is a one-story, linear wing of brick buildings paralleling the street and sheltering a series of outdoor classroom gardens and patios accessed by sliding window walls.

Despite the loss of one wing, the University Elementary School retains its original feel of a campus expressing the best of Neutra's ideas about educational design. The Los Angeles Conservancy is a c 3 nonprofit organization. Photo courtesy Architectural Resources Group. You are here Home Explore L.

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