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Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 24 Sep 2020     TLDSB is waiting on a handful of companies who are now booked into next year to make any real changes to the board's heating and cooling systems - making the government's eight week deadline all but impossible to follow.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (2004), 14 Sep 2020     If it wasn't for the fact that everyone is wearing a mask and the COVID-19 caution signs, St. John Paul Catholic Elementary School principal Tammy Rutter would swear it was just the start of another school year.

Walker, Jennifer, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 28 Jan 2021     Some local students recently glided to the top spot, receiving gold, silver and bronze medals at the Skills Ontario Paper Glider Competition. According to Trillium Lakelands District School Board, TLDSB, Skills Ontario offers a variety of opportunities for students to demonstrate creativity, skills, and knowledge of the skilled trades. When ...

Winter, Kirk, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 28 Jan 2021     At a recent TLDSB board meeting, Director of Education Wes Hahn said that the board would soon be looking for feedback from as many stakeholders as possible to determine the next five-year plan. The report from the director also stated that the octomester system worked well with a solid credit ...

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (2004), 10 Nov 2020     New public school board fund "Feed All Four" takes aim at student wellness during the pandemic and is designed for staff to support student well-being and support families who are currently struggling because of the pandemic. This fund is an extension of efforts by schools to aid families in need ...

Lindsay Advocate, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 3 Feb 2021     In an effort to keep schools safe from COVID-19, the Ontario government invested an additional $381 million provided by the federal Safe Return to Class Fund. This funding was used to improve air quality and ventilation in schools, support online learning, promote student mental health and hire more staff.

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.

Walker, Jennifer, Kawartha411.ca, 19 Nov 2020     S- Due to the pandemic, vaccines and other health services that were routinely offered in local schools were been cancelled. The local health unit was working to restructure how to offer them as a result of the pandemic.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (2004), 21 Sep 2020     Eight students from Trillium Lakelands District School Board were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic while learning from home.

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.

Winter, Kirk, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 21 Jan 2021     Earlier in January 2021, the local public school board distributed a memo from the Ministry of Education telling parents that all teachers in Ontario had received mandatory training in how to best deliver virtual programming. In a board communication to the Lindsay Advocate on January 15, 2021, it was stated ...

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.

Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 26 Jan 2021     Four Lindsay high school students who tested positive for COVID-19 had not been inside the school since class resumed after an extended holiday break, a statement to parents read.

Peterborough This Week, Peterborough This Week (Peterborough ON), 23 Sep 2020     Region dodging COVID-19 cases plaguing neighbouring districts

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (2004), 20 Sep 2020     School Boards to keep classes at or below government levels. Motion to cap class sizes at fifteen to reduce spread of COVID-19 fails to receive support at Queen's Park.

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 ...