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Kicking off the fourth annual Together for Kindergarten Forum on March 7th, 2013, County Superintendent of Schools, Michael Watkins referred to the more than 200 early educators, kindergarten teachers and...
Science lessons for 5th and 6th grade students are wrapped up in awe and wonder for the natural world at the Santa Cruz County...
Every year hundreds of students in Santa Cruz County schools put in long hours researching and presenting their findings for the Science Fair. How do they do it and what do they...
SANTA CRUZ -- Brian Culver, a 20-year-old Chico State student, focused on triple word scores and double letter scores to edge out his grandmother in a friendly... New standards favor teacher freedom in the classroom, focus on global standards. After 18 years as a teacher, Karen Richmond says she finally feels that educators are being treated as professionals... Ponderosa Boat Works is located on the campus of Ponderosa High School and Green Careers Center in Ben Lomond. It is an Alternative Education...
Matt Ryan, MA, ATC, PTA, works with two students during AED training as part of the "Save a Student" Program... SANTA CRUZ -- County school districts are targeting a common problem: bullying. To curb the mean-spirited behavior...
WATSONVILLE -- A star high school swimmer, who happened to be the mayor's son, was accused of hitting a bicyclist with his car...
WATSONVILLE -- Children in foster care are more likely to miss school, to struggle academically and to drop out before finishing the 12th grade. Less than 3 percent make it to a four-year college....
SANTA CRUZ -- West Cliff Drive has a new and native garden on a site that was previously marred by drug dealing and litter. The garden...
President Obama proclaimed February as National African American History Month. This year’s theme is At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington. 2013 marks...
On many days throughout the year, you can find students getting into vans for field trips to a variety of exciting destinations...
WATSONVILLE -- In a courtroom in Watsonville, Monte Vista Christian School sophomore Elisabeth Wayne is prosecuting a 14-year-old boy who skipped school...
SANTA CRUZ — The cloudy, cold weather broke Thursday, just in time for the Santa Cruz County Office of Education to unveil a project that will make perfect use of the sun.
SANTA CRUZ -- The 26 students inside a science lab at Harbor High on Thursday worked tediously to remove dabs of jellyfish DNA... Celebrate digital learning across Santa Cruz County and the country on February 6th, 2013, on National Digital Learning Day. Digital Learning Day is a nationwide celebration of innovative...
SANTA CRUZ -- Wednesday, a day before Gov. Jerry Brown was expected to unveil a proposal to revamp California school finance...
On December 4, 2012, over ninety Santa Cruz County teachers, staff, administrators, students, parents and community members came together...
Over one hundred charming, handmade wooden toys were donated to Migrant Head Start children during this holiday season...
What do online discussions, collaborative presentations, online quizzes, virtual mindmaps, closed captioned videos, and digital portfolios have in common? They are all effective...
ROP student chefs and servers helped put on the evening with instructor and chef Andrea Mollenauer, who teaches culinary arts...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered the White House in 1932 at the darkest hour of the Great Depression, promising "a new deal for the..."
Against the backdrop of warm, sunny skies and the newly remodeled Cabrillo College Campus, two hundred and seventy early childhood educators...
FELTON -- Desperate to draw, award-winning Colorado artist Emanuel Martinez once smuggled charcoal-tipped matchsticks into his Juvenile Hall cell, after pens and pencils...
Natural Bridges High School and Ponderosa High School, which both have Green Careers Training Programs, have begun a partnership with...
ROP students participated in real-world market research on Thursday, October 4th. A national market research consultant...
A month into the school year, the 24 students of Beth Hollenbeck’s music production and recording arts class are diving into the technical world of the recording industry... After the success of the 2011 Arts Institute for K-8 teachers, the County Office of Education held a second Arts Institute this past summer. Over 30 teachers and teaching artists...
Michael Paynter ensures youth have equal access to educational opportunities. Michael Paynter, Manager of Alternative Education and Foster Youth Services at the County Office...
It was definitely a "cool" way to bring in the fall. The first annual Popsicles and Ping-Pong Tournament brought together teachers, administrators... The Santa Cruz County Office of Education in partnership with Work4Youth, the Youth Resource Bank of Santa Cruz County, and the Workforce Investment Board would like to thank all of the business partners that hired youth this summer...
On Saturday, August 11th, the "Stuff the Bus" Event collected close to 300 backpacks and a variety of school supplies, but we still haven't met our goal of 1000 backpacks. Won't you help us...
Seventy-five Santa Cruz County middle school students were treated to the opportunity to test out high school Career Technical Education (CTE) classes on high school campuses...
Ponderosa High School and Green Career Center celebrated a monumental first year. Ponderosa opened this year in Ben Lomond in order to provide students in the San Lorenzo Valley...
This summer ROP and Alternative Education Programs are collaborating on a pilot project designed to increase Algebra skills while...
Five months of work on a very big community art project for ROP Photography teacher Karen Lemon and her students culminated in the recent installation of large-scale...
Poems written by students from Alternative Education's Hartman School at juvenile hall were part of the inspiration for a piece set for a World Premiere at the Cabrillo Music Festival...
The end of the school year is an exciting time for students as they are given the opportunity to display the art they have been working on all year, both through performance and exhibition...
SANTA CRUZ - At the recession's peak, Santa Cruz County had $1 million in federal stimulus money that got hundreds of young people from low-income households working...
Two Santa Cruz students won major global awards at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)...
What a festive sight it was on a recent Saturday morning in May for families and shoppers walking into the heart...
Nearly 3,000 fourth-grade students gave it the old college try on the Cabrillo College campus Friday, sitting in on...
Step-Up Classes are free 8-16 hour mini-courses taught by high school CTE/ROP teachers which offer students an opportunity for a hands-on experience...
BEN LOMOND - Barefoot middle-schoolers dip their feet into the cold waters of the San Lorenzo River, toeing their way along a sandy shore to find a place to set their charges free...
There is no better place to begin teaching art than at the beginning of a student's school career. In recognition of this, the COE held a special Kindergarten Art Show at the County Office...
When you wash your fleece clothing and other synthetics, are you feeding bite-sized plastic to the bottom of the marine food chain? Answering...
CAPITOLA - Award-winning science journalist Gary Taubes presented his hypothesis on why we get fat Wednesday night to a rapt audience...
For close to 30 years, the most gifted spellers from school sites across Santa Cruz County have been coming together to show off their superior word formation knowledge...
This spring Natural Bridges High School and Green Careers Center students are participating in the LiMPETS Program as part of Community Service Fridays...
More than 200 early educators, kindergarten teachers and administrators from across the county gathered on Feb 29th for the 3rd annual Together for Kindergarten Forum ...
SANTA CRUZ — Tucked away behind Youth Services on Mission Street is a one-room school with a garden in back ...
On community service Fridays, for the past several weeks, Ponderosa High School students have volunteered ...
Educators across our county are spending time this year becoming familiar with the new Common Core State Standards...
“When people are educated, they are in power!” This was one of many “nuggets” starting off...
After several months of discussion, the County Office of Education made a business decision last week to purchase a building to accommodate some of the services...
Upon hearing that the Santa Cruz County Office of Education’s Inside Education participants would be visiting the campus to learn more about small schools... There has been a decline in arts programs in Santa Cruz schools over the last couple of decades which makes it tempting to focus on what isn’t happening, rather than the high quality arts...
Three years ago, the Santa Cruz County Office of Education saw a serious need in our county and worked hard to find a way to fill it. Realizing that many districts were struggling...
Broad-Based Apprehension, Suppression, Treatment and Alternatives (BASTA) is a new spin on an old effort to convene the...
In the fourth session since its start last month, on Tuesday 12 teen jurors will decide the punishment for a student defendant represented by two teen defenders, facing off against two teen prosecutors. As in other successful programs in Santa Cruz, Palo Alto...
On Saturday Nov. 19 the County Office of Education, with the Teacher Salary Project and the Santa Cruz New Teacher Center, co-sponsored a screening of the documentary “American Teacher” at the Nickelodeon Theater in downtown Santa Cruz...
The first-graders watched with excitement as water washed doughnut sprinkles and soy sauce - representing pollution - from the hills and fields... Students from our newest Alternative Ed High School Program, Ponderosa High School and Green Careers Program, just returned from three days at the Santa Cruz Forestry Challenge...
The family day care home is one of more than 70 that provide care to hundreds of Santa Cruz County children through the Central California Migrant Head Start Program...
Last year, middle school principals shared their frustrations around the fact that during this time of accountability and aligning instruction. ...
On September 29th, as school was kicking into gear, the Digital Connections Project was kicking-off with its 2011-2012 premier event...
Administrator training. Teacher training. Is there an app for that? Well, not exactly, but the Santa Cruz County Office of Education did host two iPad workshops—one for administrators and...
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article on September 20, 2011, about the growth and success of the Regional Occupational Program (ROP) 'Bike Tech at School' program...
This summer, the Regional Occupational Program (ROP) of the Santa Cruz County Office of Education held it’s first ever Public Safety Academy...
Recently, nearly 300 teacher leaders and administrators from across Santa Cruz County gathered at the Cocoanut Grove...
It’s been some years since the County Office of Education has held an Arts Institute for teachers. During the last week of June, however, in collaboration with the Museum of Art...
Watch a slide show from the Santa Cruz County Office of Education’s Natural Bridges High School & Green Careers...
When Bonnie Dankert became Lead Teacher for the Juvenile Hall’s Hartman School, a school site from Santa Cruz County Office of Education’s Alternative Education Programs...
On Friday, May 20th, over 150 of the students enrolled in the Santa Cruz County Office of Education had a really exciting...
Dr. Robert Lustig spoke to our community about obesity prevention. Now you can watch a recording of his presentation...
The room was packed with displays of petrified wood, watershed maps, garden seeds, gorgeous books—even a live bat! The Environmental Education Resource Fair was held...
Poetry lives, and it was never more alive than this week, when half a hundred high school students read their poems out loud before a packed house of...
On May 7, 2011, more than five hundred fifth through eighth grade students came together on a prized weekend day at Aptos High School to...
The frequency of driving under the influence is staggering. It is reported that four million people in the United States, 16 to 20 years old, drove while under the influence...
Learn more about the Special Education program's Chrysalis Autism Program for preschool through 3rd grade students by watching this 10 minute video...
Learn more about what the Regional Occupational Program (ROP) and Your Future is Our Business are doing to empower students in transitioning from schools to careers... In the midst of the worst storm of 2011, the discussion about a health crisis likened to a tsunami was being held down the street from the site of a water main burst in ....
Probation officer Gina Castaneda identified some of the signs: Buttoning all but the third or fourth buttons on a shirt. Buying shoes a size or two too big so the extra space can be filled with drugs...
From a study of bird populations in the sandhills of the Santa Cruz Mountains to determining how many balloons it takes to lift a 7-year-old off the ground, the brightest young minds in...
The County Office of Education hosted the fifth annual Special Education Art Show on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011. The art show is the brainchild of Brook Knoll teacher Wendy Harrison and is open to any student with special needs in the county who would like to be...
Santa Cruz CHP collaborates with IMPACT Teen Drivers, Santa Cruz County Office of Education, Youth Services, and Friday Night Live to bring an important message....
Almost three hundred teachers from preschools, kindergarten and first grade, who'd already put in a tough day's work, showed up to spend several more hours on the job at the Together for...
“Objection, your honor. That question requires a narrative,” said one Santa Cruz High School student in a firm voice last weekend during the final of the annual Mock Trial competition...
A new program that focuses on sustainable technologies, science and engineering while promoting civic engagement and...
The county's top 125 young spellers, representing 40 schools, gathered at UC Santa Cruz on March 5th. Read the Santa Cruz Sentinel article...
The Santa Cruz County Office of Education and the ten local school districts have joined with professionals, community, business and civic leaders for a first-hand, interactive and participatory look at the public education system in Santa Cruz County.
The forum brought together more than 300 educators, including preschool and kindergarten teachers, superintendents and school board trustees, packed the auditorium for Simitian's second annual "Together for Kindergarten."  |
Together for Kindergarten Forum 2013
