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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Sunburst Youth Academy project uses targeted loans to aid families across the globe |
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Standing in front of a poster-board display, three young women shared the story of Phylis, a single mother and farmer from Kenya, making the case for a modest investment that would help her pay her children’s school fees. It was clear the students were already personally invested. The trio was one of a dozen student teams that gathered inside a meeting room at the Sunburst Youth Academy in Los Alamitos last week to make professional pitches for loans on behalf of global citizens they’ve never met.
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http://newsroom.ocde.us/sunburst-youth-academy-project-uses-targeted-loans-to-aid-families-across-the-globe/ |
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Esports community donates money, computers to victims of Butte County wildfire |
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High school esports players in the North America Scholastic Esports Federation have rallied to support their fellow gamers to the north who were impacted by last year’s Camp Fire, considered the deadliest and most destructive fire in California’s history. More than $65,000 in cash and dozens of computers were presented to the Butte County Office of Education during a reception on May 15. The contributions came from NASEF members — including many from Orange County — their friends and families, and partners including the Samueli Foundation and hardware-maker iBUYPOWER.
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http://newsroom.ocde.us/esports-community-donates-money-computers-to-victims-of-butte-county-wildfire/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Two middle school students will represent Orange County in national spelling bee today |
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Two Orange County students are spellers in the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee. The on-stage competition begins today from Washington D.C. Thirteen-year-olds Nicholas D’Sa of St. Cecilia Catholic School, from Tustin, and Dean Alkhairy of Fairmont Private School, from Newport Beach, will represent the OC at the national bee. D’Sa has studied French, Latin and Greek roots hoping it will help him figure out spellings of words he doesn’t know. Alkhairy competed in last year’s national bee and tied for 42nd-place with Ayle Guevarra, 12, from Winnetka.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2019/05/28/two-middle-school-students-will-represent-orange-county-in-national-spelling-bee-today/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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DAILY PILOT |
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Newport-Mesa Unified gives graduating seniors awards for character |
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The Newport-Mesa Unified School District this week recognized six seniors who exemplify “the six pillars of character” — caring, citizenship, fairness, respect, responsibility and trustworthiness — with its annual Character Trait Awards.
Principals of the six high schools nominated six students from each campus. Supt. Fred Navarro and the principals worked to select one winner from each school.
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-student-character-trait-awards-20190524-story.html |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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Thousands of US kindergartners unvaccinated without waivers |
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States are heatedly debating whether to make it more difficult for students to avoid vaccinations for religious or philosophical reasons amid the worst measles outbreak in decades, but schoolchildren using such waivers are outnumbered in many states by those who give no excuse at all for lacking their shots.
A majority of unvaccinated or undervaccinated kindergartners in at least 10 states were allowed to enroll provisionally for the last school year, without any formal exemption, according to data reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article230891019.html |
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WASHINGTON POST
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When students learn by making projects, how do you gauge their progress? |
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Frame by frame, the simple round face sketched by seventh-grader Annabelle Bechtel erupted into laughter in stop-motion animation, as she and her classmate Audrey Chung wove the face into a video they were making to explain satire. Other students were making their own videos, about foreshadowing, metaphor and other literary devices. The children worked at tables surrounded by craft supplies, 3-D printers and woodworking tools in the “maker space” of Corte Madera School, a public school for grades four to eight nestled in the San Mateo County hills.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/when-students-learn-by-doing-how-do-you-keep-track/2019/05/26/79e37fa4-7e38-11e9-8ede-f4abf521ef17_stor |
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CONTRA COSTA TIMES
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New Haven teachers will strike Tuesday, no deal reached over holiday weekend |
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The historic New Haven teachers strike will continue into a second week Tuesday, as no contract deal was reached with school district management despite multiple marathon bargaining sessions during the holiday weekend, officials said. Negotiators for the New Haven Teachers Association and the New Haven Unified School District met for more than 12 hours Monday in an attempt to hammer out a salary contract, and at times, the union indicated the impasse could be easing, but by late Monday night, talks ended without a pact.
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https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/05/27/new-haven-teachers-strike-negotiations-continue-on-memorial-day/ |
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