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OCDE NEWSROOM
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OCDE conference to focus on enhancing interpretation and translation services |
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There’s still time to register for OCDE’s third annual Interpreters and Translators Conference, which will be held Sept. 27-28. The two-day event is designed to support the work of bilingual staff, administrators, interpreters, translators, parent advocates and others seeking to ensure equal access for culturally and linguistically diverse students. Attendees will hear from renowned experts and learn how to enhance interpretation and translation services in schools.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/ocde-conference-to-focus-on-enhancing-interpretation-and-translation-services/ |
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Student Profile: Ryan acquires vocational and life skills in OCDE’s Adult Transition Program |
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Along with supporting 27 local school districts, the Orange County Department of Education directly serves some of the county’s most vulnerable student populations, including those with special needs. In our latest OCDE Student Profile, we’re sharing the story of Ryan, who started working with professionals from OCDE’s Special Education division in 2011. Ryan recently graduated from the department’s Adult Transition Program, which emphasizes vocational skills along with functional academics, life skills and social-emotional learning for young adults.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/student-profile-ryan/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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California ethnic studies curriculum faces changes after backlash |
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State schools superintendent Tony Thurmond on Wednesday, Aug. 14 called for major revisions to a draft ethnic studies curriculum that has been lambasted by Jewish American organizations as biased and anti-Semitic.
The superintendent was flanked at a press conference by members of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, which criticized the draft they say omits the Jewish experience, fails to discuss anti-Semitism, singles out Israel for criticism and reinforces negative stereotypes about Jews.
None of that was intentional, Thurmond said.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2019/08/14/california-ethnic-studies-curriculum-faces-changes-after-backlash/ |
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Students zip and dig their way through summer at outdoor camp in Orange |
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Straddling two sides of history, students in third through sixth grades got to dig for treasure in a replica mine and then slide down a zip line, during a camp at the Outdoor Education Center in Orange.
The STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) camp was part of the Irvine Public Schools Foundation’s summer enrichment program. More than 500 STEAM classes serving 10,000 students were offered over the summer, including sports, culinary arts, and video game design.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2019/08/14/students-zip-and-dig-their-way-through-summer-at-outdoor-education-center-camp-in-orange/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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DAILY PILOT |
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Ocean View School District board appoints new leaders at four campuses |
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A handful of campuses in the Ocean View School District will be under new leadership this year. District board President John Briscoe said he and his colleagues unanimously approved a slate of appointments in closed session Tuesday — officially hiring Christina Luckey as principal at Hope View Elementary School; Randy Lempert as principal at Spring View Middle School; Jadyn Grunbaum as principal at Mesa View Middle School; and Julie Nichols as assistant principal at Vista View Middle School.
Joining them in the series of transfers and new hires for the upcoming 2019-20 school year are Vista View Principal Rasheedah Gates and Spring View Assistant Principal Cheri Daniels, whose appointments were announced in June.
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2019-08-14/ocean-view-school-district-board-appoints-new-administrators-at-four-campuses |
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EDSOURCE
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Students return to dramatically different Paradise |
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Schools reopen in Paradise today, but nothing is the same. The Camp Fire changed everything nine months ago when it roared through the town and neighboring communities, killing 86 people, destroying thousands of homes and four schools.
Many of the 1,000 students who are expected to return — about a third of the student population of a year ago — will be coming on buses from their new homes in Oroville, Chico and Durham. Many of their former classmates and teachers have moved away.
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https://edsource.org/2019/students-return-to-dramatically-different-paradise/616330 |
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SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TRIBUNE
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El Monte school district votes to curb polystyrene use |
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Students and office workers are going to see a lot less polystyrene — better known as the brand name Styrofoam — around campuses and administrative buildings next year, following a unanimous vote from the El Monte Union High’s Board of Trustees.
In a meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 7, the board voted to bar the district from buying any polystyrene, save for one department — the Nutrition Services Department — and moved to discourage faculty and staff from using the material, which is cost-prohibitive to recycle.
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https://www.sgvtribune.com/2019/08/12/el-monte-school-district-votes-to-curb-polystyrene-use/ |
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