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Oldies 100.9 news presents the Vanderlaan Building Excellent Educators Day, profiling outstanding leaders in our community.
It’s an exclusive look into the lives of some of Northumberland’s best and brightest educators, including Dean Smith, an Indigenous education consultant.
Smith went to school at Concordia and McGill, eventually also completing a degree in teaching, he has spent about 30 years, working with the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board.
Smith is a member of the Pictou Landing Mi’kmaq First Nation. He has been an educator for three decades, coached sports in our community, is a musician and helped to start the Kaitlyn Bates Initiative.
Over 100,000 Ontario Students Return to Class Beginning Next week.
Today (Jan 20), Minister of Education, Stephen Lecce, provided an update on which schools can resume for in-person learning, saying this:
“On the advice from the Chief Medical Officer of Health, the government is allowing seven public health units and over 100,000 students to return to class on Monday, January 25th.
Getting students back into class is our top priority. According to Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health and leading medical and scientific experts, including the Hospital for Sick Children, Ontario’s schools are safe places for learning.
To ensure schools remain safe, the government is introducing additional measures including provincewide targeted asymptomatic testing, enhanced screening, mandatory masking for students in Grades 1-3 and outdoors where physical distancing cannot be maintained.”
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