Westmark School is a private school in Encino, California, teaching 2nd through 12th grade. The school serves children with language-based learning differences including attention-deficit disorder and dyslexia among other learning disorders.
Description Westmark serves children with language-based learning disabilitiys. The school built a new building for there lower school students.
Lower School
The Westmark School Lower School building was designed with the goal to build a leaning environment for neurodiversity students and their needs.
Construction on the Lower School building started and opened 2 years later on December 13 2024.
The new building replaced the 1950s-era modular buildings that covered the lower school. Each classroom contains a tiny resource room. Classrooms also contain a bathroom for convenience. It is optional to use the bathroom located in the classroom.
History Westmark, originally Landmark West School was established in 1983. Landmark West School was located in the Greater Los Angeles area and later moved to Encino.
Technology The school was the first in the Los Angeles area to provide iPads to all students. School administrators and teachers consider the high costs worth it for what it adds to the education program. Westmark has a television station education program in which its 5th grade students write the material and produce the program. The school library has materials of various types to cater to the students with various learning needs.Guild, Sandy. "Accommodating Learning Differences" (a section of Chapter 8: Underserved). In: Woolls, Blanche and David V. Loertscher (editors). The Whole School Library Handbook 2. American Library Association, 2013. , 9780838911273. Start: 140. CITED: 142.
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