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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Orange County student filmmakers honored in statewide film contest focusing on mental health |
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Dealing with depression can feel like you have dark, overpowering thoughts that no one will understand, and sometimes you don’t even have the energy to confront them.
Four students from El Dorado High School in the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District created a 60-second film where a teenage girl lies with her eyes closed underneath a tangled ball of black string, symbolizing her inner thoughts and feelings of depression. As viewers, we can hear what she is thinking.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/orange-county-student-filmmakers-honored-in-statewide-film-contest-focusing-on-mental-health/ |
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Inside the Outdoors environmental day camp returns this summer |
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Students can soak up the sunshine during outdoor activities this July with the return of summer day camp at Shipley Nature Center in Huntington Beach. The 2022 Summer Day Camp program, hosted by Inside the Outdoors, is back in-person for little ones to explore nature while strengthening their science skills through new hobbies and crafts. The program offers four weeklong day camp options from July 5 through July 29 with activities tailored to different themes.
Parents can learn more about the program and register at https://ocde.us/ito/Pages/SummerCamp.aspx.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/inside-the-outdoors-day-camp-returns-this-summer-with-songs-and-skits/ |
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Orange County child care council honors providers for heroic work |
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The Orange County Child Care and Development Planning Council, which is based at OCDE, held an OC Child Care Provider Appreciation event. This one-of-a-kind drive-thru event took place in the OCDE parking lot on Saturday, April 30. The provider appreciation event centered around the theme “Orange County Providers Help Our Children Bloom”. Approximately 460 cars and 920 child care providers drove through the OCDE parking lot. |
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/orange-county-child-care-council-honors-providers-for-heroic-work/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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DAILY PILOT |
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‘He really is one of a kind’: Newport Harbor Latin and history teacher retires after decades of teaching |
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Joe Robinson, 82, who has been teaching at the high school since 1969, will be retiring this June. In a recent interview, Robinson said he’s taught at Newport Harbor steadily since 1969, with the exception of a short leave of absence to spend time with his children. He said that as a younger man he didn’t plan to be a teacher. Instead, he aspired to become a Catholic priest — and even went to a seminary — but decided against it and left because he didn’t want to live alone. |
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https://lat.ms/3z5FFl6 |
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VOICE OF OC
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ACLU Calls Out Irvine School Board For Suppressing Public Comments |
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The American Civil Liberties Union is questioning the Irvine Unified School District board’s policy of stopping any public commenters from criticizing their staff’s work in a new letter to the panel last Tuesday. The letter came after Irvine resident Debra Kamm repeatedly questioned the work of staff members at the district, saying they’d started pushing back against her after she submitted a complaint alleging that district staff were discriminating against children with disabilities.
When she attempted to reach out to the board to speak about the issue via email, her email address was blocked.
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https://voiceofoc.org/2022/05/aclu-calls-out-irvine-school-board-for-suppressing-public-comments/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Counselors not part of one California district's plan to tackle student mental health |
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Faced with escalating student mental health needs, one California school district is trying an unusual new approach – one that does not include counselors. Saugus Union School District in northern Los Angeles County, which in recent years has endured a nearby school shooting, wildfires and increasing political polarization, is eliminating all four of its counselor positions and replacing them with social workers. In the fall, the district will have nine social workers and no counselors. |
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https://edsource.org/2022/counselors-not-part-of-one-california-districts-plan-to-tackle-student-mental-health/672828 |
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KQED
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‘We Have Power’: Oakland Activists Camp Out in School to Stop Its Closure |
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Parker Elementary in East Oakland was officially closed by the district on May 25, at the end of the school year, but families and activists have been sleeping in the auditorium since Thursday in an effort to reclaim the building for their own with a plan to begin a community school. The activists say they will stay until the school board agrees to reverse its closure decision, fully fund Parker Community School, or gives the community control of the building. "Parents are liberating the school and want to keep it open and turn it into a real community resource to make sure it stays in the hands of the community,” said Timothy Killings, a caseworker at Westlake Middle School. He said G.E.D. classes, chess club and farm-to-table classes would be offered, with a celebration event planned for this weekend. |
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https://www.kqed.org/news/11915396/we-have-power-oakland-activists-camp-out-in-school-to-stop-its-closure |
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NPR
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California schools try to outrace Covid outbreaks |
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A fourth-grade camping trip led to one outbreak, a high school prom to another. But even with covid cases rising as schools head into the final stretch of the academic year, most California districts have not moved toward reinstating mask mandates. That stance has left many parents confused and concerned as they witness or hear about covid outbreaks among students after field trips and proms. |
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https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/05/27/california-schools-try-to-outrace-covid-outbreaks/ |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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California man, 78, gets high school diploma 6 decades later |
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For 60 years, Ted Sams regretted missing his high school graduation. Now 78, Sams can finally call himself a graduate after donning a cap and gown and receiving his diploma Friday with the class of 2022 at Southern California’s San Gabriel High School. Back in 1962 when he was a high school senior, Sams got in trouble and was suspended five days before the end of the school year. He said he missed a crucial final exam and had to make it up over the summer. |
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https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/orange-county/education/2022/05/30/pasadena-man-high-school-diploma-age-78 |
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California school probe yields no suspect in racist messages |
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A California school district has been unable to identify who subjected a Black assistant principal to racist graffiti and messages on social media even after a six-month investigation in which 45 witnesses were interviewed. Elysse Versher, assistant principal at the West Campus High School in Sacramento, California, told The Sacramento Bee last week that she planned to resign. She said the Sacramento City Unified School District failed to protect her from the harassment and does not take incidents of racism and hate crimes seriously, the newspaper reported Saturday. |
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https://apnews.com/article/crime-education-social-media-california-d0bf462ff1764190cc69c03f721194cb |
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