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Navigating Through Omicron - Term One Reflections

Navigating Through Omicron Reading and Researching From late January MOE and MOH Bulletins came out thick and fast - lots to digest and make sense of! The principal networks (both national and local) were a vital source of conversation and crowd sourcing Other posts online via twitter and facebook pages helped to inform our practice as term one unfolded. Internationally, this conversation has begun.  The pandemic has exposed inequities in schooling and in societies.  In New Zealand schools, our capacity to support hybrid learning options; to provide access to devices; administration support for smaller schools; staffing to keep schools open; and ventilation in classrooms, are typical examples. In the “Learning in a Covid World’ series of reports put out by ERO, recommendations for 2022 included Preparing for hybrid/blended learning. For example, through having a clear plan of how remote learning will be supported for some students when most students have returned to the classr...