While the board doesn't yet have full data from the spring semester, attendance was down in the fall semester around 30 per cent, says the chairperson of the Cree School Board.
, which is a tool for collaboration and communication between teacher, school administration and parents, said Pash. The board started using it a year ago and hopes to have it available across the territory by the end of the school year.
Local school committees have also made a renewed commitment to reach out to parents locally, find more ways to bring them into the school activities and celebrations, and hold local education assemblies."There was a lot of discussion about parent engagement and attendance … and how we were all going to work to engage parents effectively," said Pash.
"Over the pandemic, it's really become very clear that our education system has to be a part of the recovery, a part of healing from this pandemic," said Pash. "Not only the trauma that was caused by the pandemic in terms of stress and anxiety and mental health issues," said Pash, but also the more long-term impacts on academic and employment performance possibilities both now and in the future.Absentee rates are 'something we are very concerned about, because when you look at education research, a 10 per cent absenteeism rate puts a child at academic risk, said Pash.
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