OC Schools up their game with quality programs as families have more education options than ever For Orange County parents considering their children’s educational future, it’s all about options. Whether it’s public schools, private schools, charter schools or even home schooling, families have many choices when it comes to where kids will be attending school. […]
Q&A with Al Mijares
The visionary public school leader discusses the challenges facing OC schools and the standout programs shaping their future The new school year is always an exciting time and we can always expect plenty of changes. To help walk us through it all, we posed some important questions to County Superintendent of Schools Al Mijares, Ph.D., […]
Integrating STEM Education into Local Private Schools
How are local private schools integrating STEM education into their classrooms? The concept of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) has opened up the floodgates of practical and creative classroom learning. In local private schools, innovative STEM lessons range the gamut of curricula, projects, field trips and grade levels. “For the students, STEM is popular […]
Private School Directory: Fall 2019
Fall 2019 | Compiled By Meagan Lockhart If your school does not appear on this list, or if you wish to update your information for the next bi-annual Private School Guide, please fill out our Spring 2020 Private School Guide form and we will incorporate you into our next guide! If your school does not […]
Summer Science Programs for Kids
The ruddy duck is a diving bird. Its plump, cinnamon-colored body bobs on the surface of a pond at the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, supposedly catching its breath. Audubon naturalist Jay Miller points out the duck’s baby-blue beak, a beak so bright people have asked him if it was painted on. A collective gasp rises […]
School Work Stress Solutions
School work can present stress for some families. Tutoring may help. Laguna Hills resident Shawn Moh and his wife were spending hours a week after work and on Sundays helping their two teens with school work. They decided to sign them up for tutoring so their kids could have a resource to help them achieve […]
Quiet Time Meditation at School
Is meditation the wave of the future in education? Our children’s brains are where 89 billion neurons fire in an organized way. It’s their control center. But in an increasingly warp-speed, hyper-linked world where social media competes for our children’s waning attention spans, while school shootings and bullying compound their already heightened classroom stress, students’ […]
Outdoor Education
Dyllan Stanfield’s eyes lit up when she saw the hedgehog … and the opossum … and all the goats. The 6-year-old—an aspiring veterinarian, according to her mom—had many questions for the Orange County Zoo zookeepers on a recent visit. And she got many answers in return. “We are able to educate children on the importance […]
The Advantages of Montessori Schools
One day, Giuliana De Frenza, director at Montessori Harbor-Mesa School, received a call from the mother of a child who used to attend the school, which De Frenza opened in 1970. She explained to De Frenza that her son graduated from college and that he was one of the top students in his class. “‘I […]
Upcoming Events
Learn & Grow Expo is a FREE EVENT where families can find over 60 exhibitors focusing on all aspects of healthy living—experts offering the tools and wisdom parents need to know to help them raise boys and girls with strong minds and bodies. There will be free health screenings, nutrition and fitness demonstrations, and lots […]
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