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OCDE NEWSROOM
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VIDEO: Internship offers insight into different aspects of engineering careers |
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Melanie, a student in the Garden Grove Unified School District, learned the roles in sales, client management and project presentation in the engineering industry during her internship at Envise, a total building solutions company based in Garden Grove.
Melanie said her internship experience will prove helpful in her decision to choose a career. And ultimately, that’s the goal of the internship that was set up in partnership with OC Pathways.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/video-internship-offers-insight-into-different-aspects-of-engineering-careers/ |
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Anaheim Union students clean up at Project Soapbox speech competition |
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We’re written a few times here about Project Soapbox, a public speaking competition that challenges young people across the country to research and address issues impacting their communities. The initiative is organized by Action Civics CA through the Mikva Challenge, and its latest local contest was held on Dec. 8, drawing about 100 competitors to Santa Ana’s Santiago Elementary School. For the second year in a row, student orators from the Anaheim Union High School District cleaned up.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/anaheim-union-students-clean-up-at-project-soapbox-speech-competition/ |
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VIDEO: ‘Warming hearts’ campaign promotes spirit of giving during holiday season |
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Some families in the community received extra toys, clothes, gift cards and other presents to help them better enjoy the upcoming holiday season. The effort was part of OCDE’s Warming Hearts For the Holidays campaign, where staff members sponsor families in need whose children are served by one of OCDE’s educational programs. Families provided gifts lists, and participating OCDE staff members purchased items off those lists.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/video-warming-hearts-campaign-promotes-spirit-of-giving-during-holiday-season/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Most Influential 2019: Mandy Kelly is helping her students lead a nationwide movement to spread kindness |
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Mandy Kelly is the first to say her students teach her as much as she teaches them.
She wants it that way. “When you teach from the top-down, you shut off 36 ideas that were possible,” said Kelly, 31, a sixth-grade teacher at Trabuco Mesa Elementary in Rancho Santa Margarita. When Kelly assigned her students in 2016 to do random acts of kindness for a month, they turned the class lesson into a nationwide social media challenge. This year the challenge, which exploded in popularity, helped earn Kelly recognition as one of five California Teachers of the Year, following her Orange County Teacher of the Year honor in May. |
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https://www.ocregister.com/2019/12/24/most-influential-2019-mandy-kelly-is-helping-her-students-lead-a-nationwide-movement-to-spread-kindness/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Charter schools vs teachers union: A high stakes L.A. school board election takes shape |
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The candidates are confirmed and the upcoming Los Angeles school board races are all but certain to make for a high-stakes election cycle that will pit teachers and their allies against backers of charter schools for influence over the nation’s second-largest school system. The March election, in which four of the seven board seats are up, comes at a critical juncture for the L.A. Unified School District, which is struggling to make progress academically against the backdrop of budget problems and political instability.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-26/high-stakes-lausd-elections-for-charters-unions |
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SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
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San Diego Unified welcomes its first student board member |
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Taking part in an act normally reserved for much older politicians, University City High School sophomore Zachary Patterson recently started his term as the first student trustee to serve on San Diego Unified School District’s board. Zachary, 16, became the first student to represent the district’s more than 120,000 students at the school board level after a district-wide election he won with a strong qualification: he created the position himself.
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https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2019-12-25/san-diego-unified-welcomes-first-ever-student-board-member |
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EDSOURCE
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Students in foster care: a quick guide |
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Each year, thousands of children in California are removed from their homes and placed into foster care due to parental neglect, abuse, or exploitation. During this time, they are considered to be wards or dependents of the court. While some children are reunited with their families in a matter of weeks, others may stay in foster care for years until they reach adulthood and age out of the system.
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https://edsource.org/2019/students-in-foster-care-a-quick-guide/621586 |
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LAGUNA BEACH INDEPENDENT
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Math Teachers on Maternity Saw Paychecks Slashed to Fund Substitutes |
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When four Laguna Beach math teachers told their supervisors they planned to take maternity leave, they knew they would have to chip in for their substitutes.
But they didn’t expect their monthly salaries would be slashed by $330 per day of maternity leave, more than double the district’s usual rate. Thurston math teacher Heather Miner said it cost her over $7,000 to stay home with her daughter, Hazel.
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https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/math-teachers-on-maternity-saw-paychecks-slashed-to-fund-substitutes/ |
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