A collapsed tax base. A state shortfall of $54 billion. New investments to accommodate social distancing. What does it all mean for school budgets? In this second look at our public school budgets during the COVID-19 downturn, Orange County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Al Mijares reaches out to Dr. Molly McGee Hewitt, CEO and executive director of…

What started as a mysterious illness on the other side of the world quickly turned into a global pandemic that’s altered nearly every aspect of life. And it’s caused an economic shock that could have major consequences for public schools across California. In this episode, OC Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Al Mijares, talks with Mike Fine, CEO of t…

Is fluency in more than one language a recipe for success in the 21st Century? Across America, we are seeing a resurgence of bilingual education at an early age. Parents and educators are embracing the idea of our next generation growing up as multilingual, and multi-literate citizens in the world. Here in Orange County, California, we have some of…

Why have societies historically placed a premium on kindness? How do human connections impact our physiology? Why do we keep needing to remind ourselves to be kind? And what would happen if an entire county were to embrace kindness? These are some of the questions posed by Orange County Superintendent Dr. Al Mijares in the latest edition of The Dee…

Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Feb. 19, 1942, authorizing the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. In this edition of The Deeper Learning Podcast, we take a look at how this order connected the Mendez and Munemitsu families. In our last episode, we learned how Sylvia Mendez and her family chal…

Hosted by Jeff Hittenberger, chief academic officer for the Orange County Department of Education, the first episode of the Deeper Learning Podcast centers on a profoundly significant court case that’s probably unfamiliar to most Americans. Mendez v. Westminster shattered many of the legal justifications for segregating public schools and laid the …

Welcome to the Deeper Learning Podcast. This is a podcast for people who want to think about life, learning, and education at a deeper level. In each episode, you’ll hear stories about people who have pursued and experienced deeper learning in their lives. Produced by the Orange County Department of Education Introduction Transcript…