EDMONTON Edmonton Public Schools is the latest Alberta school division to publicly state it will not pilot the draft kindergarten to Grade 6 curriculum during the 2021-22 school year. Superintendent Darrel Robertson said the decision was based on the continued impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our Division is offering family choice for in-person and online learning in the first half of the 2021-22 school year, Robertson said in a written statement. To ensure continuity of learning as we look towards a potential return to in-person instruction for the second half of the year, we need to ensure the same curriculum is being used Division-wide for both our online and in-person students.
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Alberta Education is vowing improved oversight and integrity within the K-12 system’s leadership by giving enhanced powers to the body governing school superintendents.
With the passing of Bill 55 in the Alberta Legislature on Tuesday, the UCP government created the College of Alberta School Superintendents Act, allowing the college oversight of professional conduct and disciplinary hearings as well as standardized educational development.
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Superintendents and members of CASS will still be accountable to their school board as their employer, but the minister of Education will no longer have to approve superintendent appointments.
Raising the bar with education leaders
Alberta’s government will strengthen the kindergarten to Grade 12 education system by creating a professional organization for school superintendents.
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If passed, Bill 55, the
College of Alberta School Superintendents Act, would make the college a legislated organization responsible for upholding the superintendent profession. This includes superintendents and deputy superintendents employed in public, separate or francophone school authorities. This legislation will strengthen the education system and empower superintendents to provide better outcomes for Alberta’s students.
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General Stewart teacher nominated for award
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t was a whirlwind seven days for Mikaela McNab at the end of summer of 2020. It also turned out to be very rewarding, figuratively and now possibly literally. McNab, a kindergarten teacher and learning support teacher at General Stewart Elementary School was named the Lethbridge School Division’s nominee for the Edwin Parr Award – sponsored by the Alberta School Boards Association – for first-year teachers. The winner will be announced in April. “I was so incredibly humbled and honoured,” said McNab. “I graduated in April of 2020. So I know a lot of first-year teachers and they are working incredibly hard this year and to be the nominee of the Lethbridge School Division just makes me so proud to be an educator.”