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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Mijares: OC teachers are modeling the traits we hope to instill in students |
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This is not what most teachers had in mind when they earned their teaching credentials. Many surely imagined planning lessons, decorating classrooms and leading meaningful dialogs with their students. Some may have envisioned using the latest technologies to engage young learners and promote equity.
But as we know, the world shifted on its axis this year.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/mijares-oc-teachers-are-modeling-the-traits-we-hope-to-instill-in-students/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Laguna Niguel Elementary principal was ‘blown away’ by 50th birthday parade |
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In the age of coronavirus, there’s a tendency to put off special occasions until life returns to normal. That was not the case for Laguna Niguel Elementary School Principal Beth Ewing, whose 50th birthday on Wednesday, April 29, was celebrated by dozens of students, parents, teachers and administrators with a surprise, drive-by birthday parade in front of the school.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/05/01/laguna-niguel-elementary-principal-blown-away-by-50th-birthday-parade/ |
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Signs of progress: Schools celebrate home-bound seniors with yard placards |
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They will miss prom, the roar of the crowd as they accept their diplomas and grad night in the gym. But at least with some small gestures, school districts have found ways to celebrate their seniors. In front yards around Orange County, signs congratulate the Class of 2020 – the kids whose high school career screeched to a halt halfway through second semester. Their lives, both educationally and socially, became largely contained to computer screens after the coronavirus pandemic rolled in.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/05/01/signs-of-progress-schools-celebrate-home-bound-seniors-with-yard-placards/ |
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DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES
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What will replace traditional grad ceremonies lost to the pandemic? LA area schools are working it out |
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After many graduation ceremonies were cancelled in early April, Los Angeles area schools and districts launched into planning mode for a wide array of alternative graduation and culmination ceremonies. That planning, however, is complicated by indeterminate May and June public health guidelines. Schools are looking into pre-recorded videos and songs, appeals for celebrity commencements and, if health authorities allow, socially distanced stage walks.
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https://www.dailynews.com/2020/05/04/what-will-replace-traditional-grad-ceremonies-lost-to-the-pandemic-la-area-schools-are-working-it-out/ |
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SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
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East Bay schools get creative with graduations during pandemic |
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Instead of walking across a stage to the traditional cheers of family, fellow students and faculty, this year’s Livermore high school seniors will be alone as they head across an empty football field and receive their diplomas not from their principal, but by picking them up from a table. No handshakes, no hugs.
In Dublin and Pleasanton, students will wear their caps and gowns, but at home, sitting in front of a computer screen to watch a virtual ceremony.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/01/east-bay-high-schools-to-hold-different-virtual-solitary-graduations-for-seniors/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Big plans to expand preschool in California put on hold |
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s big plans for expanding child care and preschool have hit a big roadblock — the coronavirus. Ten thousand more California 4-year-olds were expected to be able to enroll in state-subsidized preschool for the first time this year, beginning in April. Newsom hoped to add another 20,000 over the next two years. Newsom also had invested millions in expanding child care for younger children. |
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https://edsource.org/2020/big-plans-to-expand-preschool-in-california-put-on-hold/630629 |
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More California students are online, but digital divide runs deep with distance learning |
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Sharing a hotspot with five siblings who take turns connecting to the internet has made even the simplest assignments a struggle for Yesenia Velez, a high school senior in East Los Angeles. She and other students across California have benefited from recent efforts to get internet access to all students amid school closures amid the coronavirus pandemic. But as California leaders push to close a digital divide that has persisted in California for decades, students and school leaders say closing that gap will require much more than handing out devices. |
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https://edsource.org/2020/more-california-students-are-online-but-digital-divide-runs-deep-with-distance-learning/630456 |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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California lawmakers go back to work as coronavirus lingers |
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California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon is calling lawmakers back to the Capitol on Monday, restarting a legislative session interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, even as a handful of lawmakers plan to stay home for fear of contracting or spreading the disease. But it won’t be business as usual for California’s full-time Legislature after lawmakers agreed to their first sustained unscheduled work stoppage in 158 years. They will be limited to having just one staff person with them, and nurses will check their temperatures at the door, among other precautions.
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https://apnews.com/ff7024fa235f29c59a662294e8a71bcf |
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Distanced by Pandemic, School Psychologists Improvise Ways to Connect With Struggling Students |
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School psychologists from across the country say they worry most about those students who already faced problems before the shutdowns began, including financial instability, which could be exacerbated by surging unemployment. And although online platforms have existed for years to allow help to be delivered remotely, many campuses have been slow to adapt to the technology, in part because mental health professionals have been able to treat students in person — until now. |
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https://www.the74million.org/article/distanced-by-pandemic-school-psychologists-improvise-ways-to-connect-with-struggling-students/ |
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