ADLC continues to adapt to the needs of educators as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. After having temporarily suspended registrations pending further information, ADLC has now reopened Student Instruction (SI) courses. These are courses that VVS teachers don’t teach but they may be taken through ADLC. April 15 is the new deadline to register into 3- and 5- credit courses with ADLC and May 15 is the deadline to register into 1-credit courses with ADLC. June 15 is the deadline to complete all ADLC courses.

When working through your coursework, focusing on smaller bits will help the assignments from becoming overwhelming. Chunking your learning, readings, and assignments will help you manage the course as a whole and makes sure that you do not get in over your head (having to complete everything all at once with short deadlines).

Short-term goals for a distance learning class may include completing a particularly difficult assignment by a certain time, reading a certain number of pages in the textbook by an assigned day each week, achieving a specific grade on your exam, or even writing down one important thing that you have learned from the reading each day or week.

Take it one step at a time and complete each step as you go for each course, and before you know it, you’ll be close to the finish line!

• April 1: April Fools’ Day
• April 7: World Health Day
• April 7: Green Shirt Day (for Organ Donor Awareness)
• April 9: Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge
• April 10: Good Friday (Campuses Closed – Staff Unavailable)
• April 13: Easter Monday (Campuses Closed – Staff Unavailable)
• April 15: VVS Annual All Staff Meeting (subject to cancelation)
• April 19-25: National Volunteer Week
• April 22: Administrative Professionals Day
• April 22: Earth Day
• April 23: World Book Day
• April 28: WCB Day of Mourning (Alberta Workplace Injury Awareness)

Check out our monthly events on our website. We update this calendar as events are added.

As a result of COVID-19, our room bookings at various public libraries around the province have been cancelled for the first part of April and it is highly likely that our Red Deer road trip, later in the month, will also be cancelled.

Contacts

Principal	Steven Kaplan
Associate Principals	Treena Bradbury	Frank McCallum
Academic Counsellors	Jessica Luciuk	Loya De Clercq	Christie Borle (Inclusive Ed.)
Adult Academic Counsellors	Frank McCallum	Treena Bradbury	Steven Kaplan
School Hours	8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (teachers' hours are 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Campus Location	341 58 Ave. SE Calgary, AB T2H 0P3
Phone	P: 1-855-974-5333	VVS Support x5317
School Website	vvschool.ca
School Email	vvsupport@pembinahills.ca	vvsadults@pembinahills.ca
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