Avon Maitland District School Board Superintendent, Jane Morris, says the board is currently looking at its options for online learning in the future.
Morris says they currently have a group of students who are learning remotely in their Online Learning School. But earlier this year the ministry also asked them to create a short term online learning option to address the concerns of some parents who wanted a short term online options in the face of the Omicron surge.
“Those students receive a package in the mail of materials to work on, but they also have access throughout the day to a live educator, taking their calls and contacts for your Google classroom, so it’s not like they’re calling in to a classroom all day.”
But Morris says that short term learning model is ending at March Break. Morris says those families are being contacted to let them know that delivery model is ending. So those students can choose to return to the classroom or they can join the Remote Learning School for the remainder of this school year.
Morris says they ministry has also advised them that all school boards must offer online learning for next year, so they’re developing a letter will go home to the parents next week
“Asking them to consider the remote learning school and then there’ll be a survey within that letter, to ask for them to express some interest in either continuing in the remote learning school, for the families that are in it right now, or if we have other families that are wishing to join.”
And Morris says, that will allow them to get staff in place for next fall.
