The Echo teachers also act as a resource for the classroom teachers, meeting with them regularly to discuss academic, social and communication issues. Classroom teachers as well as specialists make use of community resources in planning trips. In the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, students have the opportunity to attend overnight field trips to Astro Camp in the San Bernardino Mountains, Catalina Island and Yosemite Institute in Yosemite National Park. These trips are designed to provide not only academic information but hands-on experience, small and large group cooperative learning with the emphasis on responsibility, building trust and confidence along with enhancing communication skills. Daycare offers many structured activities such as arts and crafts, competitive and non-competitive sports, study hall, storytelling and group games.
Daycare promotes positive cross grade-level interaction.
This is achieved through mixed aged activity groupings, group sharing and mentoring of younger students by older students through a buddy system. The summer session is designed to be a happy, vital, satisfying experience in which students develop new strategies for learning and a zest for continuing education. Enrichment curriculum is designed by skilled teachers to provide experiences not available during the regular academic year in an atmosphere of productive enjoyment. These classes and clubs offer the opportunity to learn skills and content which are not a part of the regular school curriculum or to specialize in skills introduced during the school day. In addition, they provide the opportunities for hearing and hearing-impaired children to interact and learn in a different environment.