Algoma District School Board students are staying home today, as the board transitions its elementary schools to a hybrid learning model.
The English public school board says elementary and secondary students are staying home for a "transition" day, having been provided with work on Friday.
Students can have "touch base time" with teachers via Microsoft Teams - for elementary students, it's 1:30 pm to 2 pm and for secondary students, it's 11 am to 11:30 am with their morning teacher and 2 pm to 2:30 pm with their afternoon teacher.
The move comes as the board's reorganizing elementary classrooms to blend virtual and physical students into one class, expected to be the final re-shuffle of the year, helping alleviate a teacher shortage.
High school students are not swapping to a hybrid model, though they are transitioning to "a new quadmester", with the hybrid model to be considered for the second semester, which starts in February.