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Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (2004), 11 Nov 2020     Trillium Lakelands District School Board will transition students to online learning when busing to schools is cancelled due to inclement weather to maintain COVID-19 safety plans.

Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 11 Nov 2020     Parents pushed the local public school board to allow for school photos. At the time, the school board was working with the local health unit to work on protocol to allow outside photographers into the building. The board hopes that provincial and federal investment in growing broadband access will help ...

Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 12 Nov 2020     Despite mostly positive reports from senior local public school board staff regarding octoblocks, a different narrative emerged powered by student and teacher experiences. Octoblocks, according to a school trustee, a union representative, and three teachers affected students and staff in a number of negative ways.

Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 25 Nov 2020     The Trillium Lakelands District School Board met, covering their recent audit, staff reporting on some of the upsides seen during the pandemic, and the director of education's 100-day report.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 2 Jan 2021     The local newspaper spoke with Director of Education Wesley Hahn from the local public school board about the five biggest challenges and benefits that came out of the COVID-19 pandemic from their perspective.

Winter, Kirk, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 19 Jan 2021     Reports made by multiple Trillium Lakelands District School Board officials indicated a system that, while working hard to provide the best available education, was straining under the almost constant change being thrown at it by pandemic-related developments and these stressors impacted administrators, front-line staff, parents, and students.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 21 Jan 2021     Despite hundreds of new COVID-19 cases still being reported across the province daily, the local health unit believed that one of the best places for children just might have been back in school.

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca, 17 Dec 2020     The local public school board recommended that all students gather personal belongings from lockers and desks and bring them home for the Christmas holiday in case Ministry of Education decided to extend the break and have all schools closed beyond January 4, 2021.

Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 18 Dec 2020     The local public school board was caught between rumours of school shutdowns and a provincial lockdown. Schools were expected to reopen on January 4, 2021 with no indication of any closures occurring as of December 18, 2020. However, the Ministry of Education and school board were encouraging teachers to see ...

Winter, Kirk, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 6 Jan 2021     Colin Matthew, president of District 15 of the Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation, was upset that the local public school board forwarded a letter from the Ministry of Education on to parents with important contextual errors that unchallenged and uncorrected.

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 23 Jan 2021     The local public school board sent out a list of new health and safety measures put in place along with a list of reminders about previous measures in advance of children returning to in-school class on January 25, 2021.

Winter, Kirk, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 20 Jan 2021     Many parents in Kawartha Lakes were overjoyed to hear that their school-aged children who attended in-person learning before the 2020 Christmas holiday would be returning to school on January 25, 2021.

Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 9 Dec 2020     The local public school board discussed the first snow day of the year, now made into learn-at-home days.

Winter, Kirk, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 3 Feb 2021     At a recent press conference, Education Minister Stephen Lecce and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams were vague on key school issues. One question was who would be administering the rapid COVID-19 test in school settings. According to Colin Matthew, president of Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation District ...

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 30 Dec 2020     Kawartha Lakes students rose above the challenges presented by learning in a time of COVID-19, according to the local public school board.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 26 Jan 2021     Dealing with multiple health units and differing COVID-19 zones was challenging enough, but local school boards also had to navigate through the issue of some students still having to learn virtually.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 3 Feb 2021     Local public school board reported close to double the number of families teaching children themselves compared to previous year. The number of reasons for this included parents working from home opting to keep children home too, consistency in providing their child's education (twice in less than a year, students had ...

VanMeer, Pamela, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 1 Feb 2021     As more students return to class today, the Ontario government says it is providing an additional $381 million, provided through the federal Safe Return to Class Fund, to keep schools safe from COVID-19. This funding will be used improve air quality and ventilation in schools, support online learning,promote student mental ...

Walker, Jennifer, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 8 Jan 2021     Many working parents and caregivers are feeling pressure and anxiety after the government announced at home learning has been extended until January 25.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 13 Jan 2021     Area school boards saw more than 500 students return to in-class studies after the 2020 holiday break while the province extended online learning orders until at least January 25, 2021.