Rainbow District School Board puts preliminary school delivery plan in place

It is not final, but the trustees of the Rainbow District School Board, have put a preliminary plan in place
for the return to the classroom in September, which meets their unique challenges.
At last week’s board meeting, Director of Education, Norm Blaseg stated in mid-June Education Minister Stephen Lecce advised school boards to plan for three models of instruction when the school resumes this fall.
He says one was the normal school day routine with enhanced public health protocols, the second at home distance learning and the third an adapted hybrid delivery model with both in school and at home learning.
Blaseg says Lecce also indicated that school boards would decide which model to use in consultation with public health in response to cases of Covid-19 in the communities the board serves.
He says their model reduces the number of students on buses, in the classroom and numbers of contacts between students and staff.
Blaseg says elementary school students would attend every other week, based on their plan and secondary school student classes would be split in half and be on a 10-day cycle.
He stresses the plan is flexible and depends on what the provincial government decides is the best approach to use.
Similar approaches are also being advocated by other school boards, especially those who share busing services.