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.
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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.
At its regular meeting on July 9, the Orange County Board of Education voted to elect new officers for the 2015-16 fiscal year. Robert M. Hammond was selected to serve a one-year term as president, and Linda Lindholm was named vice president. [...]
OCDE’s Alternative, Community and Correctional Schools and Services division, or ACCESS, has released a list of highlights from the 2014-15 school year, and it’s impressive. Here are just a few of the division’s numbers: Number of English learners redesigned as...
Brendan Stern, a former student of OCDE’s Regional Deaf and Hard of Hearing program and a graduate of University High School in Irvine, recently resigned as head basketball coach at Washington, D.C.-based Gallaudet University -- but for a very good reason: He’s accepted a tenure-track position with Gallaudet’s Department of Government and Public Affairs.
We reached out to Stern, 32, to talk about his work at Gallaudet, as well as his early days as an OC student.
