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[quote=Anonymous]My friend lives here and sent me this link to what her school district in Canada is doing, especially for high school.

I think it is innovative and haven't seen anything like it yet.  They are planning for a hybrid model right now because spread is pretty low, but it seems they are making plans for COVID to get worse, and to prepare for the fact that they may need to go to full distance learning.

The innovative part of this plan is that they have moved to a quarter system.  Instead of full year classes, each quarter students will take just 2 intensive classes.  That does means that they will have to commit to this system for the full year so students can have all 8 classes.

They will have students come to campus for in person instruction, daily, for Class 1 for about 2 hours, and then stay for what they call Flex time for about another 2 hours.  Flex time is for extra help, special ed, and students who are taking AP classes, or even to work on certain clubs like yearbook.  Or students can leave if they want, or use the time as a study hall.

The students return home  after the Flex period, and do about 2 hours of online instruction (mostly asynchronous it looks like -- recorded lectures)  for their Class 2.

After two weeks, they switch Class 2 is in the morning in person and class 1 is in the afternoon.

At school some students come in the morning for class 1 followed by flex; others come for flex first followed by class 1.    That limits the amount of students needed to be in the class 1 by half.

As a parent of a high school student looking at 8 classes in a row online all day, I think this would be a much better way to go.  I'd rather she only have to deal with 2 online classes (intensively) for three - four hours a day, than 8 classes.  It just seems saner and more emotionally healthy.

I don't think our schools in the US could replicate this model though because most of our students ride buses to school and I don't think the school bus situation would work out for this model.  It could be a good model, though, for all online instruction.

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