By Morgan Owen Jonathan Weisbart believes in hands-on learning. That is why he makes an effort to plan at least one project each year for his fifth-grade students at Playa Vista Elementary that fosters creativity and innovation while following state teaching standards. This year, Weisbart decided his students would build a water battery to store […]
Wetlands ‘friends’ teach children about the environment
By Morgan Owen Before the Westside was a city, it was a coastal wetland rich with plant and animal diversity. Today, one remnant of this ancient ecosystem remains, the Ballona Wetlands. Carolyn Everhart, the manager of environmental education at Friends of Ballona Wetlands, teaches children about this once-great landscape that defined Santa Monica Bay. Friends […]
Expanding Education
In 2018, Loyola Marymount University (LMU) opened a new Playa Vista Campus. Serving as a creative center for graduate and professional education, the new satellite location aimed to support the highly acclaimed Graduate School of Film and Television and College of Business Administration’s Master of Science in Business Analytics. Unfortunately, the pandemic hit soon afterward […]