At the Monday, July 20 board meeting, Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) senior staff presented three preliminary school reopening models to the Board of Trustees, in response to the June 19 announcement made by the Ontario Minister of Education instructing all school boards in Ontario to prepare for each of the following scenarios:
- A Full Return or conventional, regular classroom instruction, with enhanced health and safety protocols
- A continuation of distance learning, including the use of live, synchronous online instruction
- An adapted/hybrid delivery model that enables students to return to class with blended distance learning, which includes health and safety requirements that will limit the maximum number of students to 15 per class.
On Monday, July 27, Trustees received more detailed preliminary plans from senior staff in preparation for an upcoming decision from the Ministry of Education regarding what school will look like in September.
All three models have been carefully developed with the health, safety and well-being of students and staff in mind, and in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Region of Waterloo Public Health, in addition to the data collected from our student, staff and family reopening survey.
