The Natural Classroom

Do you have wonderful childhood memories of playing in the outdoors? Perhaps you collected leaves and studied their shapes and colors, or you turned over rocks and logs along the creek looking for bugs, or you built castles on the beach with sand and shells. These...

Library Databases in K-12 Education

Last week, at a statewide meeting of County Office of Education library and media leaders, California State Librarian, Greg Lucas, announced an initiative to license online library databases and provide them to all K-12 students for free. The effort was spearheaded by...

Developing Environmental Literacy

Every person relies on the environment for food, water, clean air, natural resources, and much more.  The environment (natural or built) provides students an engaging and real-life context for learning and gives educators the opportunity to help their students build...

Healthy Kids in Our Schools

The California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) will be administered through the schools in the SLO County Consortium in February 2018. CHKS Support for the LCAP  The surveys provide a wealth of information to guide school improvement efforts and your Local Control and...
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