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Volume 62, No. 8

93/2019

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

April 23, 2019

B.C. Reg. 93/2019 , deposited April 17, 2019, under the SCHOOL ACT [section 168.02]. Ministerial Order M138/2019, dated April 17, 2019.

I, Rob Fleming, Minister of Education, order that the School Calendar Regulation, B.C. Reg. 314/2012, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— R. FLEMING, Minister of Education .

Schedule

Section 8 of the School Calendar Regulation, B.C. Reg. 314/2012, is repealed and the following substituted:

Designation of purpose of non-instructional days and periods

(1) A board must

schedule the following in the 2018/2019 school year:

(

a) one or more non-instructional periods totalling 5 hours for the purpose of providing teachers with an opportunity to participate in discussions and activities that develop evidence-based approaches to the implementation of the curriculum documents listed in

section 2 and Appendix 1 of the Educational Program Guide Order, M333/99;

(

b) one non-instructional day for the purpose of providing teachers with an opportunity to participate in discussions and activities that, in the board’s opinion, develop evidence-based approaches to one or more of the following:

(

i) Indigenous education;

(ii) implementation of curriculum;

(iii) sexual orientation and gender identity;

(iv) student mental health.

(2) In each of the 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 school years, a board must

schedule at least one non-instructional day for the purpose of providing teachers with an opportunity to participate in discussions and activities that focus on both of the following:

(

a) enhancing Indigenous student achievement;

(

b) integrating Indigenous world views and perspectives into learning environments.

(3) For certainty, the non-instructional periods referred to in subsection (1) (

a) may be scheduled on different days.

(4) For certainty, nothing in subsection (1) or (2) prevents a board from providing an opportunity for parents of students attending schools in the district, other employees of the board and members of the community to participate in the non-instructional day or periods described in that subsection.

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