THE PARENTING BIZ
How The Greater Essex County District School Board Is Meeting
The Challenges COVID-19 Presents To Students E
ducators learned many lessons during the COVID-19 emergency and for them it was a comparable experience to the one they try to create in classrooms, for students, during ordinary times. Improvisation, adaptation and perseverance were attributes reflected in their work. It’s the same enterprise that is being utilized in the development of the plan to reopen schools safely and effectively in September. Incrementally, from the first week of April, the resumption of students’ education took shape and continuously transformed until the end of June and now into the summer. Why was never in question, but how was always a challenge. Distance learning, while not a novel concept, became the standard instructional model and students, staff and families had to figure out how to learn at home, full time. However, any plan would have been inadequate without the resources to make it work. Hundreds of Greater Essex County District School Board (GECDSB) computers and devices were cleaned, reconfigured for home use and distributed to students and families who required these tools to work with.
School’s out and classrooms have been empty for months. Back in March the Ontario government closed all publicly funded schools across the province for two weeks following March Break, due to concerns about COVID-19. So what is the plan come September when kids usually return to school after summer break? What will the classrooms, timetables and instruction look like?
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