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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Teachers can improve video presentation skills with these production pointers |
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As educators across the state embrace distance learning models, we thought some helpful video tips might be in order. Our OCDE Media Services team is compiling some useful information for those of us who are now incorporating video into our daily teaching, whether it’s Zoom classrooms or pre-recorded lessons for learning platforms like Canvas. These quick videos are here to help you up your distance-learning game in simple ways that improve the quality of videos while not adding to your workload.
Today we take a quick look at two techniques.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/teachers-can-improve-video-presentation-skills-with-these-production-pointers/ |
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COVID-19 update: State and local leaders say schools should plan on student dismissals extending to summer |
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OCDE continues to track the latest developments related to the COVID-19 respiratory illness while working closely with partner agencies including the Orange County Health Care Agency and local school districts.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/coronavirus-update/ |
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Here’s how internet providers are working to offer service to students in need |
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Orange County’s major internet service providers have begun programs to offer free or reduced internet access for families so students can continue learning at home.
As campuses remain closed for the foreseeable future amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, educators are moving to distance learning options to support academic continuity. According to the latest Census figures, almost 90 percent of households in the county have broadband internet access. Still, in a region of almost 500,000 public schools students, that could leave tens of thousands of students not connected to the internet.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/heres-how-internet-providers-are-working-to-offer-service-to-students-in-need/ |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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Learning to sew for a good cause: Sacramento-area students making masks for hospitals |
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When Rancho Cordova math teacher Estelle Gray began teaching an after-school sewing club on a whim two years ago, she never imagined her students would be sewing masks for healthcare providers in the middle of a pandemic and worldwide mask shortage. But with schools closed for what is likely to be the remainder of the school year to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the W.E. Mitchell Middle School teacher knew her students would be bored at home while complying with stay-at-home orders.
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article241651976.html |
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Online education during coronavirus? Teachers and parents say it’s a mess in California |
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Tomica Neal is a single mom and full-time Fresno State student. Since the coronavirus pandemic shut down her kids’ Clovis school last month, she’s also become a teacher.
“To say that it’s a struggle is kind of an understatement,” she said.
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article241623781.html |
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SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
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San Diego County schools will get $8 million from state for pandemic costs |
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Public schools in San Diego County will together receive about $7.9 million of state money to pay for distance learning, school cleaning, personal protective equipment and meals for children, according to data published by the state education department this week. San Diego Unified, the state’s second-largest school district with 103,000 students, will receive about $1.7 million, according to the data. The money comes from Senate Bill 117, which was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on March 17.
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https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2020-04-01/san-diego-county-schools-will-get-8-million-from-state-for-pandemic-costs |
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CONTRA COSTA TIMES
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Gov. Newsom, Superintendent of Schools tell districts to crank up distance learning |
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If they haven’t done so already, school districts must immediately ramp up their distance-learning curricula because classroom doors will almost certainly be closed indefinitely during the coronavirus pandemic, and students can’t be left behind.
That was the message delivered Wednesday by both Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Superintendent of Schools Tony Thurmond.
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https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/04/01/school-officials-scramble-to-come-up-distance-learning-plans-that-work/ |
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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUN
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College-bound seniors cope with coranavirus cancellations |
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She flew to New York City on March 4 with her future in front of her. She had been granted an audition at Julliard, arguably the most prestigious arts academy in the nation. By the time she left the Big Apple four days later, her world had changed.
Forever. Grace Juell, a senior at the Orange County School of the Arts, is among thousands of students in Southern California whose college choices have been turned upside down by the coronavirus and whose final year of high school has been destroyed. The prom, most likely, is gone. Grad night, gone. Graduation ceremonies with caps and gowns and pomp and circumstance might never happen.
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https://www.sbsun.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-high-school-seniors-face-tough-decisions-mounting-losses/ |
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EDSOURCE
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California school unions, district leaders pledge to cooperate on coronavirus challenges |
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At Gov. Gavin Newsom’s urging, school labor and management groups agreed Wednesday on principles to guide them as they switch to distance learning and continue providing meals for students in the months ahead. The 3-page “framework for labor-management collaboration” is not a mandate. By itself it won’t resolve acrimonious disputes over employee expectations, safety issues, hours and benefits that have slowed progress in distance learning in districts like Yuba City Unified and Sacramento City Unified. However, the document’s preface says, it could “spur collaboration” so that districts can get on with confronting the havoc created by the coronavirus.
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https://edsource.org/2020/california-school-unions-district-leaders-pledge-to-cooperate-on-coronavirus-challenges/627866 |
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With students home, California leaders try to convince them that school is not out |
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California’s political and education leaders have embarked on a bold messaging initiative to convince millions of children stuck at home that schools aren’t really closed but are actually in session — just in a different location. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond is making the distinction that school campuses are closed, but school itself is not out.
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https://edsource.org/2020/with-students-home-california-leaders-send-message-that-school-is-not-out/627825 |
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Special education inconsistent in California school districts during closures |
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A week after state and federal authorities directed school districts to continue offering special education during school closures, the level and quality of those services remains a patchwork in California. In some districts, teachers are talking daily to students and their families, assigning homework and holding online classes. But in other districts, special education so far has been minimal or put on hold.
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https://edsource.org/2020/special-education-inconsistent-in-california-school-districts-during-closures/627830 |
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