Back in April, we helped spread the call for nominations for the Innovation in Education Awards presented by Project Tomorrow and the OC Tech Alliance. The nine finalists who are now in the running for the awards were announced today. [...]
More than local 500 educators, school workers and law enforcement representatives will gather in Costa Mesa this week to address critical school safety and security issues during the sixth annual Safe Schools Conference.
Presented by former state Secretary of Education Dave Long in collaboration with the Orange County Department of Education and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, the three-day conference will be held Wednesday through Friday at the Hilton Orange County. [...]
California’s most recent mathematics standards have changed what teachers and students are doing in the classroom.
As a result, teachers are faced with the task of assessing student learning in a way that aligns with the current standards. [...]
In June, we told you about eight young men and women from high schools in the Santa Ana Unified School District who were selected to be summer interns at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
It was an opportunity made possible through OCDE’s emerging OC Pathways project, along with generous community partners like OpTerra Energy Services, which contributed stipends for each student. [...]
Each year, thousands of children sustain concussions, but the path to recovery doesn’t always end after the initial treatment.
For students returning to school after a traumatic brain injury, the experience of learning and engaging in academic activities that require concentration may actually cause concussion symptoms to reappear – or worsen. [...]
It’s Friday, July 17, and here’s a roundup of local education stories you may have missed from this past week.
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Today the California Department of Education announced a free professional learning event available to all California PreK-12 teachers, teacher candidates and school administrators.
Click through for information and registration link. [...]
California is now in its fourth straight year of below average rainfall and this past winter was one of the warmest on record. The snow pack in the Sierra Nevada has a water content of only five percent of the historic average, the lowest since 1950.
This has placed California firmly in one of the worst droughts in the state's recorded history.
Everyone, including schools, are encouraged to do their part to conserve water. [...]
A paid summer internship that has eight talented Santa Ana students working with JPL scientists and engineers is "precisely the type of experience that was envisioned when the state Department of Education awarded our own OC Pathways initiative a $15 million grant to expand career pathways for students from kindergarten through college," writes Dr. Al Mijares, Orange County superintendent of schools.
Click through to read the superintendent’s latest column.
