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OCDE NEWSROOM
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La Quinta High music teacher honored for educational excellence |
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La Quinta High School teacher Darlene Machacon’s efforts to create music-making opportunities while meeting students’ needs have earned her recognition from the Country Music Association Foundation and its annual Music Teachers of Excellence award. The CMA Foundation chooses to honor 30 music teachers nationwide each year for their ability to positively impact their students and for utilizing “the power of music as an avenue for change.” |
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/la-quinta-high-music-teacher-honored-for-educational-excellence/ |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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Gavin Newsom signs law requiring California schools to purchase American-made food |
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Public institutions in California will have to opt for American-made food products starting Jan. 1, 2024 under a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Senate Bill 490 states that public institutions, including schools, need to budget for and purchase American-made foods unless they are more than 25% of the cost of imported ones. |
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article266498101.html |
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EDSOURCE
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Linda Darling-Hammond wins major prize for her education research and its impact |
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State Board of Education President Linda Darling-Hammond, a professor emeritus at Stanford University who founded the Learning Policy Institute in Palo Alto and Washington, D.C., is this year’s co-recipient of the Yidan Prize. The 6-year-old prize is one of the world’s most prestigious and certainly its most lucrative award for education research. Recipients receive $3.9 million, half as a personal award and half to scale up their work. Darling-Hammond will use her funding to broaden Educator Preparatory Lab, a new initiative of the Learning Policy Institute and the Bank Street Graduate School in New York City. |
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https://edsource.org/2022/linda-darling-hammond-wins-major-prize-for-her-education-research-and-its-impact/678745 |
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KPCC
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Compromise Would Reschedule LAUSD’s Extra, Optional School Days — And End Threat Of A Teacher Boycott |
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After reaching a compromise with Los Angeles Unified school officials, the district’s teachers union has agreed to drop plans to boycott one of the optional days of extra classes scheduled for later this school year. Under a tentative deal LAUSD and United Teachers Los Angeles negotiators reached Tuesday, the four “acceleration days” will still happen, but they’ll be rescheduled to take place during both winter and spring break. |
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https://laist.com/news/education/lausd-acceleration-day-optional-extra-compromise-utla-teachers-union-extended-learning-time |
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KPBS
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Qualcomm engineers visit Hoover High to show kids they can also succeed in STEM careers |
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Some ninth-graders crowded around tables in a large classroom, where they listened to Qualcomm engineers talk about what they do. Qualcomm and the San Diego Workforce Partnership brought the world of science and engineering to Hoover High School with conversations and workshops. The idea was to convince students, from backgrounds that are underrepresented in the field, to aspire to STEM careers. |
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2022/09/28/qualcomm-engineers-hoover-high-show-kids-they-can-succeed-in-stem-careers |
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California considers making girls flag football a school sport |
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Elsa Morin gripped the football and launched a perfect spiral. Then the 17-year-old dodged in and out of cones and yanked the flag hanging from another girl's belt for a key defensive play. “Something about football just gets me really excited,” said the senior at Southern California's Redondo Union High School. “I’ve always just wanted to play.” Morin was among about three dozen girls who recently tried out for the school's flag football team. The scene at Redondo's field is playing out with increasing frequency in California and around the country as girls flag football soars in popularity. |
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2022/09/28/california-considers-making-girls-flag-football-a-school-sport |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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Studying and skateboarding their way to good grades in East LA |
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The Skate 4 Education program is open to all students and is held inside a skateboard shop where kids can get help with homework, offered tutoring, and camaraderie with fellow skaters. The Garage Board Shop owners started the program to help keep inner-city kids off the streets and out of trouble, while teaching them to value education.
A point-based system based on completed homework assignments, grades and GPAs can earn students time to skateboard on a skate ramp in the back of the retail shop, skate park parties, school supplies, skateboarding equipment and gear, and much more.
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https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/orange-county/human-interest/2022/09/23/studying-and-skateboarding-their-way-to-good-grades-in-east-la |
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