Chalk it up to the first day of school in La Habra Fermin Leal August 19, 2019La Habra City School District students returned to school Monday and found colorful chalk art on the blacktops, walkways and...
VIDEO: Inside the Outdoors summer camps nurture a natural curiosity — and kindness Ian Hanigan August 7, 2019Did you know OCDE’s Inside the Outdoors environmental education program offers summer camps? From late June through early August, ITO...
7 outstanding PAL programs and advisors honored for innovative practices Fermin Leal May 16, 2019Five school-level Peer Assistance Leadership programs, or PAL, and two advisors were honored by the Orange County Department of Education...
OCDE, county superintendent to host ‘Saving Our Most Vulnerable Boys and Young Men’ event Ian Hanigan March 20, 2019Educators from Orange County and beyond will gather in May for a special forum to address the needs of vulnerable...
OCDE’s Inside the Outdoors leads Upper Newport Bay clean-up Ian Hanigan January 23, 2019More than 200 local volunteers scooped 600 pounds of trash from the Upper Newport Bay estuary on Saturday during a...
Yearly roundup: 10 of our top stories for 2018 Fermin Leal December 28, 2018Now that it’s the end of the year, we wanted to revisit some of our highest read and most notable...
#kindness1billion: Community helps pick up the pieces after vandals destroy teacher’s Star Wars Lego displays Ian Hanigan December 21, 2018Students and staff at Concordia Elementary in San Clemente were crushed after vandals smashed 125 Star Wars Lego sets on...
Weekly roundup: Suspension trends, school nutrition standards, Lego vandals and more Ian Hanigan December 14, 2018Suspensions in California schools have dropped by nearly 50 percent over the last six years. As EdSource reported this week,...
#kindness1billion: PAL programs compete in annual Kindness Challenge Ian Hanigan December 11, 2018A handful of Peer Assistance Leadership programs recently let us know how they celebrated last month’s World Kindness Day. Administered by OCDE, PAL...
Mijares: Orange County students are making a difference through kindness Al Mijares October 18, 2018In December 2016, sixth-grade teacher Mandy Kelly asked her class at Trabuco Mesa Elementary School in the Saddleback Valley Unified...
