INITIATIVES THAT SHINE Two newer initiatives stand out as indicators of where Lloydminster is headed.The first is the Pursuit School of Sport, launched this September, designed around flexible learning for students engaged in competitive athletics. The model supports students who travel frequently by ensuring learning materials, lessons, and academic expectations are structured so students can maintain progress while training and competing. Technology plays a key role, enabling blended learning structures, access to class content while away, and individualized pacing where students may work across multiple subjects within a flexible schedule. In this model, school adjusts to the student’s reality rather than forcing the student’s life to revolve entirely around a traditional timetable. The second initiative is a major expansion of land-based learning and Indigenous education partnerships. Neville describes the division’s intent to create a land-based learning hub, ideally through partnership with a local farmer or landowner, to 178 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 07, ISSUE 02
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