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Weekly roundup: Former student donates Little Free Library to Centralia Elementary School District campus, and more

Madeline Gray September 18, 2026

Project GLAD® Coordinator Jennifer Salas goes over language development strategies for teachers to utilize in their own classrooms.

REGISTER NOW: Project GLAD® to offer Foundations and Secondary Foundations Training this fall

Nathaniel Martinez September 18, 2026

Two students kneel in a farm field planting young seedlings while other participants work in rows behind them under a blue sky.

Second Harvest invites OC students to learn, serve at working Irvine farm

Ian Hanigan September 17, 2026

Middle/outside blocker Megan Hodges (6) leaps for a spike in the gold medal game against the Dominican Republic at the NORCECA U23 Pan Am Cup in Managua, Nicaragua.

San Juan Hills volleyball standout helps Team USA win U23 Pan American Cup gold

Nathaniel Martinez September 16, 2026

OCDE Language Services Coordinator Natalia Abarca, right, introduces keynote speaker Dr. Janet Núñez-Pineda during the 2025 International Translation Day celebration at the OCDE Conference Center.

OCDE to mark International Translation Day with PBS SoCal studio visit

Vicky Nguyen September 16, 2026

Weekly roundup: Magnolia’s ambitious agriculture plan, OC’s Blue Ribbon schools, a destructive social media trend, and more

Ian Hanigan September 24, 2021

Educators in Anaheim are watering the seeds of an ambitious new agriculture program that has the potential to lead to...

An eight-grader and a school counselor at a WellSpace

New WellSpace centers in Buena Park offer students a space to decompress

Ian Hanigan September 23, 2021

Gordon H. Beatty Middle School eighth-grader Sarah B. and Counselor Jodie Reddingius talk about the Zen garden at their school’s...

Students at the Orange County Academic Decathlon

Want to compete in the Academic Decathlon or Pentathlon? OCDE is looking for middle and high school teams

Ian Hanigan September 22, 2021

The Orange County Department of Education is recruiting high school teams for the 2021-22 Orange County Academic Decathlon, and middle school teams are encouraged to sign up for the Academic Pentathlon. Founded in 1968 by former Orange County Superintendent Dr....

3 OC middle schoolers named finalists in national STEM competition

Nichole Pichardo September 22, 2021

Three Orange County teens were recently named as some of the most promising middle school STEM students in the country....

7 Orange County elementary schools earn National Blue Ribbon honors

Ian Hanigan September 21, 2021

Seven Orange County schools have been awarded the nation’s highest level of distinction as 2021 National Blue Ribbon Schools, U.S....

VIDEO: Santa Ana students parlay Spyder3D internship into employment straight out of high school

Ian Hanigan September 20, 2021

What started as a work-based learning opportunity with state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment has turned into full-time employment for two recent graduates of the Santa Ana Unified School District. For the latest OC Pathways success story, we paid a visit to the...

Tony Bube, founding member of the Inside the Outdoors Foundation, dies at 98

Ian Hanigan September 17, 2021

Tony Bube, a founding member of the foundation that supports the Orange County Department of Education’s environmental education program, has...

Weekly roundup: A centennial celebration for Garden Grove High; weekly COVID-19 testing for Santa Ana USD students; and more

Nichole Pichardo September 17, 2021

And the centennial birthday celebrations continue. Last week, we mentioned Tustin High’s 100th birthday and this week we turn our...

New report looks at education, health, the economy and other factors that contribute to quality of life in OC

Ian Hanigan September 16, 2021

Kindergarten readiness, graduation rates and degrees in the STEM fields are highlighted in the latest Orange County Community Indicators report. Presented by the Orange County Business Council and other local partners during a virtual rollout on Thursday, the 2021-22 indicators...

OCDE partners with Kaiser Permanente to pilot new Resilience in School Environments initiative

Nichole Pichardo September 14, 2021

As part of an ongoing effort to help inform and educate local communities about the importance of screening for Adverse...