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    Local school board and Fleming College donate personal protective equipment (PPE) to Ross Memorial Hospital during worldwide shortage.

Kawartha Lakes This Week, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 14 Mar 2020     In response to closing public schools until April 5, the Trillium Lakelands District School Board prepared a Q and A to help parents, students, and community members answer their questions.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 19 Mar 2020     Kawartha Lakes parents scrambled to find childcare options for after March Break with all schools and public childcare options closed due to COVID-19 and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Kawartha Lakes ha

Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 1 Jun 2020     The local public school board moved to give limited access to schools for staff and students starting June 1, 2020. This allowed students to retrieve personal belongings left behind in classrooms, lo

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (2004), 10 Nov 2020     New public school board fund "Feed All Four" takes aim at student wellness during the pandemic and is designed for staff to support student well-being and support families who are currently strugglin

Lindsay Advocate, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 3 Feb 2021     In an effort to keep schools safe from COVID-19, the Ontario government invested an additional $381 million provided by the federal Safe Return to Class Fund. This funding was used to improve air qua

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 26 May 2021     As school boards in the area look towards the 2021-2022 school year, they are supporting staff efforts to be fully vaccinated by the beginning of the school year and are optimistic that these efforts

411 Staff, Kawartha411.ca (20150713), 7 Mar 2021     Mariposa Elementary School on Eldon Road has been closed effective Monday, March 8th after one positive case of Coronavirus.In a message to families, the Trillium Lakelands District School Board says

Winter, Kirk, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 9 Feb 2021     Discussions around whether or not the Ministry of Education would allow March Break to continue as normal or cancel it or delay it in order to reduce the potential for traveling. The local health uni

Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 26 Aug 2020     The local public school board presented their plan for the secondary school day, which changed from the first planned quadmesters to octmesters, a blocked semester of one class for the full day for 2

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 10 Jul 2020     The local school board planned to spend more than $2 billion to boost access to technology for students. Students would have individual laptops through their school years instead of constantly changi

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week, 14 Jul 2020     The local public school board prepared three scenarios for in-person, remote and modified school days for the return to school on September 8, 2020. The board hosted two opportunities for parents, st

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 10 Apr 2021     Local public school union presidents were concerned about schools remaining safe amid COVID-19 variants when the province did not make all teachers eligible to obtain COVID-19 vaccinations during the

Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 11 Nov 2020     Parents pushed the local public school board to allow for school photos. At the time, the school board was working with the local health unit to work on protocol to allow outside photographers into t

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (2004), 11 Nov 2020     Trillium Lakelands District School Board will transition students to online learning when busing to schools is cancelled due to inclement weather to maintain COVID-19 safety plans.

Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 12 Nov 2020     Despite mostly positive reports from senior local public school board staff regarding octoblocks, a different narrative emerged powered by student and teacher experiences. Octoblocks, according to a

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (2004), 21 Sep 2020     Click the image for the link to the article.

Winter, Kirk, The Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns), 25 Nov 2020     The Trillium Lakelands District School Board met, covering their recent audit, staff reporting on some of the upsides seen during the pandemic, and the director of education's 100-day report.

Whitnall, Catherine, Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON: Kawartha Media Group, 2004), 2 Jan 2021     The local newspaper spoke with Director of Education Wesley Hahn from the local public school board about the five biggest challenges and benefits that came out of the COVID-19 pandemic from their pe

Winter, Kirk, Lindsay Advocate (Lindsay, Ontario: Roderick Benns, 201804), 21 Jan 2021     Earlier in January 2021, the local public school board distributed a memo from the Ministry of Education telling parents that all teachers in Ontario had received mandatory training in how to best de