Weekly roundup: Balboa Fun Zone offers new education experiences, OC Pathways to showcase industry partnerships, and more Fermin Leal November 2, 2018About 50 seventh graders from Westminster’s Warner Middle School spent part of a day recently at The Balboa Fun Zone...
Disneyland Resort donates $55,000 to launch hands-on science lessons in Anaheim Fermin Leal October 27, 2018Disneyland Resort and the Orange County Department of Education have launched a program to bring hands-on science lessons to Anaheim...
Weekly roundup: College offers free tuition, HB students receive new backpacks, and more Ian Hanigan August 31, 2018Orange Coast College is offering free tuition to full-time, first-year students. The “Pirates’ Promise” is available to California residents who...
OCDE’s Inside the Outdoors makes the most out of Earth Month with 27 community events Ian Hanigan April 30, 2018You probably know that April 22 is annually observed as Earth Day. But did you know the entire month of...
Weekly roundup: Virtual surgeries, Earth Day, an e-sports championship and more Ian Hanigan April 27, 2018Our favorite story this week is about a 7-foot tablet with an iPad-like screen that’s helping students enrolled in Esperanza...
VIDEO: Science gets immersive at Rancho Soñado, one of 14 field trip sites offered by Inside the Outdoors Ian Hanigan April 17, 2018Nestled against the Santa Ana Mountains, Rancho Soñado serves as the home base of OCDE’s Inside the Outdoors environmental education...
Educators tout how environmental literacy can lead to well-rounded curriculum Fermin Leal April 11, 2018Incorporating environmental literacy into the school curriculum can lead to higher test scores, improved student conduct and can help us...
Inside the Outdoors secures funding for waste education program impacting more than 900,000 students Ian Hanigan March 6, 2018Inside the Outdoors, OCDE’s popular environmental education program, has netted a sizable grant to present standards-based lessons on the science of...
VIDEO: Inside the Outdoors invests grant funds in a campus garden, field trips and traveling scientists Ian Hanigan March 8, 2017Last April, the Inside the Outdoors Foundation was announced as one of 10 national semifinalists in the Blue Bunny Ice Cream...
Weekly roundup: Fullerton scholar earns ride to Yale, the California School Dashboard, mentors in Tustin and more Ian Hanigan February 24, 2017He’s a bookworm, an athlete and certainly a role model for his brothers and sister. And now he’s on his...