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Former Centralia Elementary School District student Sarah Barron speaks to students at San Marino Elementary School about the new free library available on their campus. (Centralia Elementary School District)

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
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11 OC campuses are named California Distinguished Schools

Ian Hanigan March 18, 2021
Eleven Orange County secondary schools have earned the state’s highest honor as California Distinguished Schools. The local winners are: Oxford...
Aarav Pal Hindi lessons

Brea siblings turn virtual language lessons into a charitable business

Nichole Pichardo March 18, 2021
What started as a weekly game of “Go Fish” with grandma has turned into a charitable business for a brother-sister...
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State Board of Education seeks additional testing flexibility for schools

Ian Hanigan March 17, 2021
The state Board of Education is looking to give California school districts expanded options for assessing student learning this spring — including local tests that align with state standards. Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, all states that receive federal...
Graphic celebrating 5 million meals served in SAUSD

Santa Ana Unified has served more than 5 million meals during the pandemic

Ian Hanigan March 17, 2021
A year after Santa Ana Unified began providing free, nutritious food to local children impacted by campus closures, the district...
ACSA 2021 Adminstrators

Weekly roundup: Honoring OC’s school administrators, adjusting high school sports transportation strategies, and more

Nichole Pichardo March 12, 2021
More than 20 Orange County educational leaders and a local nonprofit were celebrated this week by the Association of California...
Adult transition

VIDEO: ‘One Day’ short film looks at life inside OCDE’s Adult Transition program

Nichole Pichardo March 11, 2021
A new short film produced by OCDE’s Communications and Media Services unit follows one class of Adult Transition students at Harbor Learning Center (HLC) through a day in their life. Filmed prior to COVID-19 pandemic, “One Day: Inside an Adult...
Otto Fischer Operation Study Hall

Students from OCDE’s Otto Fischer School are building kindness one desk at a time

Nichole Pichardo March 10, 2021
It all started with an idea for a kindness project. Now, students from Otto A. Fischer School are building desks...
2021 OC Spelling Bee

Virtual Orange County Spelling Bee ends in a T-I-E; classmates named co-champions

Nichole Pichardo March 9, 2021
What first ended in a T-I-E has culminated in V-I-C-T-O-R-Y for two local students. And, for the first time in...
Aerial shot of new campus construction

VIDEO: Get a bird’s eye view of OCDE’s new Harbor Learning Center North campus

Ian Hanigan March 9, 2021
Thanks to OCDE’s Media Services team, we have a visual update on the new Harbor Learning Center North campus that will serve students enrolled in the department’s alternative education program. As the drone footage above shows, foundations have been poured...

Anaheim Elementary School District partners with Yamaha to turn instruments into works of art

Ian Hanigan March 8, 2021
Musical instruments that can’t be sold are getting new life as vibrant pieces of visual art thanks to students, families,...
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