COVID-19 Updates: Taking steps to return to normal.
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COVID-19 Updates: Taking steps to return to normal.
Information for parents, students and school staff about what to expect in schools.
Alberta is continuing a careful and prudent plan to phase out public health measures, including those in schools.
News: Alberta to lift almost all remaining health restrictions (February 26, 2022)
Learn more about writing diploma exams this year.
The e-Tutoring Hub will help students catch up on important skills and learning they may have fallen behind on due to the pandemic. It launched on January 11, 2022 with free, pre-recorded video tutoring sessions for students in Grades 4 to 9 to strengthen their literacy and numeracy skills.
Later in the year, the free online tutoring resources will be expanded to cover more grades and subjects, including live tutoring. Feedback from school authorities, parents and students will be used to help inform the topics for new tutoring sessions.
Online tutoring sessions on the e-Tutoring Hub will be:
Find out more and view tutoring resources on the e-Tutoring Hub at new LearnAlberta.
Up to $45 million will support younger students who have fallen behind during the pandemic and more flexibility will be provided for students writing diploma exams. School authorities have the flexibility to use this funding to design literacy and numeracy programming interventions to best meet the needs of their students. Programming will be above and beyond classroom learning.
Approximately $30 million was invested in fall 2021 for students in grades 2 and 3. Lists of approved funding for public and private school authorities are available. Up to $15 million will be allocated to students in Grade 1 in February 2022 in response to feedback received from school authorities.
Focused programming sessions are intended to be provided for up to 16 weeks. School authorities have the flexibility to design the length and frequency of the programming sessions.
Funds will be distributed on a per student basis with a minimum funding amount based on the number of eligible students per school.
In addition to this new funding, the Child and Youth Well-Being Review is exploring ways to best support the well-being of children and youth impacted by COVID-19.
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