There’s a quiet revolution being whispered into the hallways of Garden Valley School Division. This one begins with a simple question: what if high school didn’t have to look the way it always has?

Carrie Friesen, working on behalf of the division and Superintendent Dan Ward, is leading a feasibility study into launching a school — a small, community-rooted, student-centred model that flips traditional education on its head.

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In most high schools, the day is measured in bells. Students move like clock hands from room to room, their learning neatly divided into units and credits. But under the model, the walls between “school” and “the real world” become porous.

“You’re in your advisory group three days a week,” Friesen explains, “and the other two days you’re out ther

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