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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Students from OCDE’s Otto Fischer School are building kindness one desk at a time |
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It all started with an idea for a kindness project. Now, students from Otto A. Fischer School are building desks for families across the county, giving local students a workspace to call their own and helping them get through virtual learning. Fischer is one of two schools operated by OCDE’s ACCESS division inside detention facilities run by the Orange County Probation Department. The project — internally known as “Operation Study Hall” — was the brainchild of Lisa Lanier, manager of Title I programs for OCDE’s division of alternative education. |
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/building-kindness-one-desk-at-a-time/ |
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Virtual Orange County Spelling Bee ends in a T-I-E; classmates named co-champions |
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What first ended in a T-I-E has culminated in V-I-C-T-O-R-Y for two local students. And, for the first time in OC Spelling Bee history, the top two finalists of the Orange County Spelling Bee are classmates, in the same grade level, from the same school. Eighth-graders Boaminh Le and Sophia Lin of the Pegasus School in Huntington Beach emerged at the top of the pack on Saturday, March 6 when an online test replaced the traditional in-person county spelling bee. Both will advance to the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/virtual-orange-county-spelling-bee-ends-in-a-t-i-e-classmates-named-co-champions/ |
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CONTRA COSTA TIMES
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COVID: Study shows pandemic slowed reading progress |
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A new study adds to the mounting evidence of lost learning due to school closures during the coronavirus pandemic, with the ability of students in early grades to read aloud quickly and accurately about 30 percent lower than normal over the past year. The research released Tuesday by Policy Analysis for California Education, an independent research center based at Stanford University, examined 250,000 oral reading fluency scores for students in first through third grade last spring and fall in over 100 school districts across 22 states.
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https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/03/09/covid-study-shows-pandemic-slowed-reading-progress/ |
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PRESS-ENTERPRISE
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Riverside elementary schools welcome back thousands of children |
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Thirty Riverside elementary schools reopened for the first time in nearly a year Tuesday, March 9, welcoming thousands of children in transitional kindergarten through sixth grade. The return will be gradual. For now, children will be instructed one day a week in the classroom and the rest of the time virtually. Tuesday’s return involved only half the children who opted for in-person instruction, he said. The other half are scheduled to return Thursday, March 11.
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https://www.pe.com/2021/03/09/riverside-elementary-schools-welcome-back-thousands-of-children/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Quick Guide: California's road map for students learning English |
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In 2017, the California State Board of Education approved the state’s English Learner Roadmap as a guide for school districts and education agencies to better support the nearly 1.2 million English learners who attend public schools in California. English learners are “students who do not speak, read, write or understand English well as a result of English not being their home language,” according to the California Department of Education.
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https://edsource.org/2021/quick-guide-californias-roadmap-for-students-learning-english/650716 |
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Gov. Newsom touts California as 'getting kids back in the classroom' in State of the State speech |
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As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to shape California in multiple ways, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday night he wouldn’t be satisfied “until everybody is back in school” and pledged to invest record amounts in education this year. In his third State of the State speech, delivered in an eerily vacant Dodger Stadium, now being used as a mass vaccination site, Newsom said that 7,000 of California’s more than 10,000 schools are either opening or planning to open in April.
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https://edsource.org/2021/gov-newsom-touts-california-getting-kids-back-in-the-classroom-in-state-of-the-state-speech/650799 |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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Tutoring, meals and more: What California’s school reopening plan has for families |
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When Megan Bacigalupi’s sons went to distance learning last March, she knew it wouldn’t be easy. Now, the two boys who attend kindergarten and second grade in Oakland Unified School District, have been learning through Zoom for more than a year. What was a challenge in 2020 has the potential to impact her sons for years to come.
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https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/california/article249672993.html |
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Los Angeles school district reaches deal to reopen classes |
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Students in the nation’s second-largest school district could return to class next month under a tentative deal announced Tuesday with the powerful teachers union. The Los Angeles Unified School District and the union said the tentative agreement provides a number of “safety parameters” that would allow a partial reopening of campuses.
As with most other California public schools, LAUSD’s more than 600,000 students have been learning online for almost a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-california-coronavirus-pandemic-4d5570e6f9eab69e86a932df6e0f7065 |
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