Programs

Curriculum

Beyond the state and district core curriculum, students engage in the following:

• Accelerated Reader
• Visual and Performing Arts
• Project and Designed-Based Learning
• Technology Instruction
• Filed Trips
• Writer's Workshop
• Cognitively Guided Instruction
• Responsive Classroom

Afterschool Program

• Youth Services Programs - Beyond the Bell
• STAR/Nova Programs
• ELOP
• Enrichment Classes
• and much more!

visual and performing arts

DRAMA

Beret Malmgren (Ms. Beret), MFA is an itinerant theatre teacher provided in part through the Arts Education Branch of LAUSD. She teaches creative drama, following the California Arts Standards for Theatre. She facilitates theatre instruction for all the students and faculty at Mt. Washington Elementary School. 

Creative drama is solely about process and building the necessary skills for students to participate in theatre, to help students develop new understandings of themselves and the world around them, and to become skilled in new ways to communicate through voice and body. Creative drama allows for participants to have multitudes of creative opportunities and provides sequential learning activities that build on one another to deepen participants’ understanding. Before students can take on the challenges associated with production, it is essential to first learn the basic theatrical concepts and build theatrical skills and knowledge through the experiential learning offered by Creative Drama. 

Her goal is to illicit creativity, imagination, verbalization, and collaboration using theatre strategies, story elements and literature. 

Other Services

• Share and Care Counseling 
• Resource Specialists Program
• Designated Instructional Services

Instrumental Music Program

The instrumental music program provides standards-based music instruction on the Violin, Cello, Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet, and Trombone, starting with beginning classes, with the goal of creating a school orchestra at the school site.