OC fire updates and school closures: 2022 Staff reports May 17, 2022Below is a running digest on Orange County fires and school closures from 2022. For newer updates, visit newsroom.ocde.us/oc-fire-updates. For...
Weekly roundup: OC teacher goes to the White House, appreciating educators, cybersecurity training and more Vicky Nguyen May 6, 2022An educator of 15 years from the Saddleback Valley Unified School District returned to Southern California to be interviewed live...
Four of California’s top nine classified school employees for 2022 are from Orange County Ian Hanigan May 5, 2022Sheri Saladow, Armando Gomez, Erik Estrada and Shannon Lauricella — all from Orange County — were named among California’s nine...
Woodbridge High in Irvine takes third place in the California Academic Decathlon Ian Hanigan March 31, 2022Irvine’s Woodbridge High School has placed third in the California Academic Decathlon. Fresh off winning its fifth Orange County Academic...
Innovative apps earn honors for more than a dozen OC high school students Ian Hanigan March 30, 2022One smartphone app is designed to assist people who are visually impaired with object recognition technology, made possible by artificial...
VIDEO: OCDE educators establish pop-up schools for Afghan students whose families assisted the U.S. Ian Hanigan March 14, 2022Over President’s Day weekend, teachers from OCDE’s Alternative Education program gathered at an Irvine hotel to transform its modest business...
Former California Arts Council chair announced as Creative Edge Lecture speaker Ian Hanigan March 7, 2022Arts education thought-leader Donn K. Harris, former chair of the California Arts Council, will be the featured speaker at this...
Irvine’s Woodbridge High wins fifth OC Academic Decathlon in six years Ian Hanigan February 16, 2022For the fifth time in six years, Woodbridge High School in Irvine has won the Orange County Academic Decathlon. The...
OCDE and Vanguard University to cohost conference on human trafficking, state of children in OC Ian Hanigan February 9, 2022Vanguard University is partnering with the Orange County Department of Education to present a two-day hybrid conference on human trafficking...
Weekly roundup: A mariachi band’s Helpful Honda surprise, vaccine mandate protests, and more Ian Hanigan October 22, 2021A mariachi band from Godinez Fundamental High School in Santa Ana recently received some unexpected kindness from the SoCal Helpful...