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Volume 61, No. 3

6/2018

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

February 13, 2018

B.C. Reg. 6/2018 , deposited February 1, 2018, under the SCHOOL ACT [section 168.02]. Ministerial Order M33/2018, dated January 31, 2018.

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Section 3 of the School Calendar Regulation, B.C. Reg. 314/2012, is repealed and the following substituted:

Prescribed minimum hours of instruction

(1) Subject to subsection (3), the following are the prescribed minimum hours of instruction that a board must offer to students enrolled in the schools in its school district in each of the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 school years:

(a) 848 hours of instruction for students in kindergarten;

(b) 873 hours of instruction for students in grades 1 to 7;

(c) 947 hours of instruction for students in grades 8 to 12.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the following are the prescribed minimum hours of instruction that a board must offer to students enrolled in the schools in its school district in the 2019/2020 school year and subsequent school years:

(a) 853 hours of instruction for students in kindergarten;

(b) 878 hours of instruction for students in grades 1 to 7;

(c) 952 hours of instruction for students in grades 8 to 12.

(3) There are no prescribed minimum hours of instruction that a board must offer to students enrolled in a distributed learning school.

Section 6 (4) is repealed.

Section 8 is repealed and the following substituted:

Designation of purpose for non-instructional days and periods

(1) A board must

schedule the following in the 2017/2018 school year for the purpose of providing teachers with an opportunity to participate in discussions and activities relating to the implementation of the curriculum documents listed in

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

(

a) one non-instructional day;

(

b) one or more non-instructional periods totalling 5 hours.

(2) 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, and

(

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 evidencebased 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.

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

b) and (2) (

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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