It’s Friday, and here’s a weekly roundup of Orange County education stories you may have missed:
The Orange County Children’s Book Festival is set to take place Sunday at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.
- Bucket filling, kindness stations and dance parties were among the ways campuses in the Centralia School District participated in the Great Kindness Challenge Week.
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The Los Alamitos High School band received an invitation to perform at London’s New Year’s Day Parade and Festival in January 2018.
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The California Department of Education assembled a committee to develop social and emotional learning guidelines for schools across the state, tapping OCDE Assistant Superintendent Christine Olmstead and a dozen other top educators.
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Students at Sonora Elementary School in Costa Mesa adopted an aspirational college to celebrate during a program that focuses on college readiness.
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A new, updated system will be implemented in 2017 for California’s teacher accreditation and training programs.