Winnipeg music teacher Jewel Casselman is back in her element, leading elementary-aged students in song and guiding them on musical instruments after three years of pandemic restrictions and adapting lessons. Her students are finally getting their hands on the ukulele she purchased back in 2019, for instance, and they’re having a blast.
“You get to make music. You don’t really get to do that in math class,” noted 11-year-old Arun Sharma, a Grade 5 student.
“When we couldn’t do [music class] in the pandemic, I was a little upset,” added Grade 4 student Anna Lockerby, who’s nearly 10.
The pandemic…
OTTAWA, Ontario, July 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented disruptor to in-person education throughout the world and Canada was no exception. With little to no notice at all, teachers across the country found themselves teaching their students through computer screens and apps instead of in their classrooms. Switching to virtual learning created many challenges, such as securing sufficient devices and high-speed internet access for teachers and students, but the damaging legacy of the sudden change continues.
Emergency remote virtual learning became part of the daily routine of secondary, elementary and even kindergarten students. But…
Two Progressive Conservative MLAs broke ranks with their party again Tuesday and voted with the Liberal opposition in a bid to stall progress on an education bill that critics say would centralize decision-making power.
Ross Wetmore and Andrea Anderson-Mason voted with a Liberal amendment that would send the bill to the legislature’s law-amendments committee for public hearings — a step that would have prevented the bill from passing by the end of this week.
“I am concerned if this new governance model is enacted, there will be no limitations to where a Premier could have direct interference, including areas such…
A month after Premier Scott Moe said more money was on the way for school divisions, Saskatchewan’s education minister announced a $40 million top-up.
Dustin Duncan shared the news during a media conference in Saskatoon at Bishop Filevich Ukrainian Bilingual School.
“The government of Saskatchewan has funded enrollment increases in the past and I want to assure you that we will continue to increase enrollment funds to support our growing and diverse province,” Duncan said.
Duncan pledged $20 million for school divisions to address swelling enrollment numbers and $20 million to help with “classroom complexity.”
The money devoted to classrooms…
On Tuesday, Quebec’s education minister, Bernard Drainville, announced the launch of a “general” investigation into sexual misconduct in schools following multiple denunciations and allegations of sexual misconduct or inappropriate behavior at the primary and secondary school level.
Drainville told the National Assembly he had asked officials to shed light on “any situation involving behavior that could reasonably cause students to fear for their physical or psychological safety, including citations brought to the Education Ministry’s attention.”
The minister was responding to a question from Québec Solidaire’s Ruba Ghazal about alleged sexual assaults of students at Massey-Vanier High School, in Cowansville.
The…
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Faced with unprecedented growth, complex classrooms and new building projects, public school officials are forecasting a draw of $34 million in operating and capital reserves this year.
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According to the Calgary Board of Education second quarter budget update before trustees this week, the administration anticipates taking $12.3 million from operating reserves and $21.9 million from capital reserves to balance its $1.15 billion budget.
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In the report, increased operating expenses are tied to additional staffing costs due to enrollment growth, complex classrooms, pandemic learning losses and a salary hike for teachers.
In what was seen…