Service learning is a method of teaching and learning that combines academic work with service to neighborhood and community. Students learn by reaching beyond classroom walls.

Echo Lake helps students acquire and retain academic knowledge and skills, and become more engaged in their studies through service learning. The program motivates students to learn and improves interpersonal and leadership skills. Enhances personal development and helps develop students who are active, positive contributors to society.

New York Library Project: Second graders held a book drive to provide a library for their pen pals at a New York City school. Far surpassing their goals of 300, the students shipped 1000 books to Agnes Y. Humphrey School for Leadership PS/MS 27 in Brooklyn.

Community Garden Project: Third graders teamed with Embrace Shoreline members to create a community garden. The third graders will use the garden to study Structures of Life as part of a science unit. Students selected native plants, raised money, and built beds for the garden.

Environment Grant: Our sixth grade classes served as stewards of the Interurban Trail and the school grounds. In exchange for the volunteer hours, the City of Shoreline gave the students $2,600 for Camp Orkila scholarships.