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Westland School, located in Los Angeles in the Santa Monica Mountains on Mulholland Drive, is a K-6 school with 130 students. Founded in 1949 on developmental and progressive principles, the school has a social studies core curriculum with specialist classes in the arts, science, woodworking, gardening, printing, dance, and a commitment to community involvement, environmental stewardship, diversity, equity and inclusivity. The tight-knit school community is noted for its vitally involved parents, and its collaborative faculty and staff. The two-acre campus, which provides a natural setting with trees and gardens, stimulates learning and nurtures childhood.
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Together as a community, Westland School is committed to acknowledging, respecting, and honoring each community member’s full identity.
Our DEIB goals include but are not limited to:
- Integrate and promote diversity, equity, and inclusivity in our curriculum, practices, policy, school culture, and institutional identity.
- Contribute actively to the welfare of our diverse community, assuring that all community members know that they belong.
- Provide our children, families, faculty, and administration with opportunities, safe spaces, and support to reaffirm and explore our individual and group identities so that we may all thrive.
- Build each member’s cultural literacy and the skills to recognize oppression, unfairness, and privilege that exists on all levels: the personal, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural.
- Empower each community member with the confidence, voice, and agency to speak out against oppression and move our community ever towards equity and inclusivity.
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