05/30/2023 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Sarah French, Facilities, Operations, and Maintenance Department Assistant and Emergency Preparedness Coordinator.

05/17/2023 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Claudia House,  Educational Interpreter/Translator.

05/01/2023 -

SCOE's Personnel Commission is pleased to announce that Kenna Kitamura, Program Specialist Technician II at the North Coast School of Education, has been selected as this year's Team Player. The annual award recognizes a SCOE employee who demonstrates outstanding performance, integrity, and customer service.

04/11/2023 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Andrea Wells, SELPA Program Specialist and SELPA Adaptive Technology Center Supervisor.

03/06/2023 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Hilary Lyon, Legal Receptionist, School & College Legal Services.

02/02/2023 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Bob Herbstman, Communications Support Technician.

12/21/2022 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Alejandra Solis-Pérez, Student Engagement Liaison.

12/05/2022 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Valerie Spizarsky, Education Specialist.

10/28/2022 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Asia Teixeira, Human Resources Analyst.

09/27/2022 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Kenna Kitamura, Program Specialist Technician, North Coast School of Education.

08/15/2022 - Deaf and Hard of Hearing Specialist Vielka Montout wrote a children's book to show what life is like for the students she has spent her career serving.

08/07/2022 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Kristen DelMonte, Teacher on Loan.

05/26/2022 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Sarah Graves, Resource Materials Clerk and Accounting Technician II.

05/09/2022 -

SCOE's Personnel Commission is pleased to announce that Lynda Sue Pinochi, LiveScan Technician/HR Assistant, has been selected as this year's Team Player. The annual award recognizes a SCOE employee who demonstrates outstanding performance, integrity, and customer service.

04/25/2022 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Danielle Boettner, Business Systems Support Analyst.

03/29/2022 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Tanya Mallan, Assistive Technology Specialist.

03/02/2022 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Kelly Maul, Legal Services Receptionist.

01/31/2022 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Eric Wittmershaus, Director of Communications.

12/22/2021 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Brulene Zanutto, Coordinator Early Literacy and School Readiness.

10/22/2021 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Diane Perkiss, Human Resources Analyst.

09/03/2021 - The Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) is in the process of creating a Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan (Plan). The Plan identifies a range of natural hazards with the potential to significantly impact SCOE facilities as well as all of the facilities within each of the SCOE districts. The Plan provides a list of mitigation action items that will be used in the future to reduce impacts from the identified hazards.

08/26/2021 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet teacher Cathy Gascon.

08/12/2021 - SCOE held its 2021-2022 Back-to-School event on Monday, Aug. 9. The event featured an inspiring talk by Jose Perez, a SCOE Special Education teaching assistant.

08/10/2021 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet the six Teachers On Loan serving SCOE's Educational Support Services Department for 2021-22.

08/03/2021 -

08/03/2021 - To ensure the healthiest possible work environment as we return for the Fall 2021 school year, we ask all staff to closely review the following health and safety information.

06/17/2021 - President Biden has declared Juneteenth, which falls on Saturday June 19, 2021, a federal holiday.  Here is a copy of the bill. This law becomes effective immediately. Because public schools are required to observe federal holidays, SCOE offices and classes will be closed tomorrow, Friday June 18, in observance of the holiday on June 19. 

06/03/2021 - SCOE hosted a retirement celebration for our retirees on Thursday, June 3 during the board meeting. Thank you to all who attended to celebrate our retirees, and most importantly, thank you to our wonderful employees for their years of service. If you missed the reception, you can view the video here.

04/30/2021 - SCOE's Personnel Commission is pleased to announce that they have selected Miwa Smith, an administrative support secretary with the Administrative Services Division as this year's Team Player. This annual award recognizes a SCOE employee who demonstrates outstanding performance, integrity, and customer service.

04/21/2021 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Derek Ng from SCOE's IT department.

03/25/2021 - SCOE and SELPA employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Zachary Morris from Sonoma County SELPA.

02/18/2021 - SCOE/School and College Legal Services employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet April Tinelli from School and College Legal Services.

02/08/2021 - SCOE is pleased to offer a benefit for classified employees who work 11 months or less out of a 12-month period for the 2021-22 year. The program is being offered by the California Department of Education and allows eligible employees to elect to withhold up to 10 percent of their regular monthly pay during the 2021-22 school year. If you participate, you can elect to receive payment of your contribution and the amount matched by the state in one or two payments in the Summer of 2022.

01/22/2021 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Yesenia Rivas-Suarez from the North Coast School of Education.

01/04/2021 - Only 5% of those infected with COVID are presenting with fever, making screening questions more important than ever. The following are among the first symptoms being reported by those in the early stages of COVID:

12/09/2020 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Jenn Guerrero from Educational Support Services.

11/19/2020 - On Nov. 16, Gavin Newsom announced new requirements for wearing face coverings in order to address the spread of COVID-19. Californians are now required to wear face coverings whenever they are in public, including in office settings. Exemptions that apply at SCOE include an individual working alone in an office or room, people who are actively eating and spaced at least six feet from others, and individuals exempted for health reasons.

11/17/2020 - Please see the following reminder from IT about the appropriate SCOE networks to use when you are on professional or personal devices. Please adhere to the following guidelines to ensure the security of our networks.

11/16/2020 - You can help brighten the holiday season for thousands of individuals, seniors and families in need by being a Secret Santa!

11/16/2020 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Vanessa Johns Wedderburn.

10/22/2020 - Congratulations to Stacie Post-Sheffer, administrative operations specialist for the Instructional Services Division. She has been named SCOE’s Team Player for 2020! Stacie is being recognized as an incredibly capable, go-to person who supports her department through strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.

10/22/2020 - Congratulations to Stacie Post-Sheffer, administrative operations specialist for the Instructional Services Division. She has been named SCOE’s Team Player for 2020! Stacie is being recognized as an incredibly capable, go-to person who supports her department through strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.

09/28/2020 - SCOE will be hosting a free flu shot clinic on Tuesday, October 13, 2020 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the SCOE main facility in the Teacher Learning Center (TLC) Eagan Room 4.

09/22/2020 - SCOE employees are a dedicated group with diverse interests and backgrounds. Get to know your colleagues better each month in the Employee Spotlight. This month, meet Tracy Malkassian from Special Ed.

08/17/2020 - As the school year resumes, we know there may be questions about how SCOE will respond to confirmed cases of COVID-19 among staff, as well as employees who are showing possible symptoms. Based on the number of employees at SCOE, a case among our staff may unfortunately become a reality at some point. As essential workers, we need to know the protocol that will be followed. Please read on for more information.

08/11/2020 - SCOE held its 2020-21 Back-to-School event (virtually) on Tuesday, Aug. 11 The event featured an inspiring talk by Ada Medina-Tellez, a SCOE Special Education teacher.

And, as is our tradition, we began the school year by recognizing exemplary employees and colleagues. That included Golden Bell and District Service award winners as well as those who have reached landmark years of service. Here is the list of employees recognized this year. Congratulations and thank you for your hard work!

08/10/2020 -

To comply with state requirements and ensure the health and safety of our staff, SCOE is implementing temperature screenings for all staff and visitors.

08/06/2020 - Following are health/safety precautions SCOE is taking to ensure the health and safety of all staff.

08/06/2020 - We ask that all SCOE staff take the following steps to maintain the safety of themselves and others:

08/06/2020 -

If you need to request an accommodation related to COVID-19, please follow the process outlined below. The health, safety, and wellbeing of our staff continue to be our highest priority. Please read on for a review of the health and safety measures SCOE is taking.

If you have any concerns about your current or future work schedule not addressed here, we encourage you to reach out to your supervisor to discuss them. During these challenging times, we know that everyone is dealing with unique challenges and concerns, and we will seek to address each of them as best and as equitably as possible.