Building & Modernizing Schools

• Forest Lawn High School
  

High schools collaborate to personalize student programs

Our modernization plans are based on a fiscally responsible allocation of resources to provide enhanced facilities and increased learning opportunities across the CBE.

Our high schools work together, providing students access to specialized facilities. See Career and Technology Studies and Knowledge & Employability Pathways by high school facilities.

All students will continue to have a “home” school that offers all core curriculum courses and provides many co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.

The modernizations at James Fowler, Lord Beaverbrook and Forest Lawn high schools will increase the flexible program options that high school students can access. Providing a variety of CTS and K&E occupational courses at high schools across Calgary gives our students enhanced opportunities to complete a program that is of interest to them and may be part of their intended career path.

​Changes to Programming and Site Locations | 2018-19

Chinook Learning Services is the Calgary Board of Education’s provider of high school upgrading, ELL/LINC and continuing education (professional development and corporate training).

Chinook Learning Services has moved out of Viscount Bennett and Erlton campus. The CBE did not receive government funding to maintain these facilities, which are at the end of their life cycles. We determined that moving Chinook Learning Services into existing and operating high schools, that have available space, would enable us to continue offering some Chinook Learning Services programs. With the move, Chinook Learning Services changed the scope of programs they offer due to the current use and space constraints at the new locations.

Chinook Learning Services will continue to provide a welcoming, safe and caring environment in the new locations for students to be successful in their learning and complete their courses. At James Fowler and Lord Beaverbrook High Schools, a Chinook Learning Services assistant principal along with other Chinook Learning Services staff will be available to support students and answer questions. Students will be supported in multiple ways.

High School Upgrading
(at James Fowler High School and Lord Beaverbrook High School)
 
Students 16-19 years of age (as of Sept. 1) will have access to daytime and evening high school upgrading courses, while students 20 years and older will have access to upgrading courses in the evenings only.

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Background

There are several reasons these changes are necessary now. While relocating Chinook Learning Services programs has been discussed for years, due to various factors the CBE has been unable to move forward. For example, we needed to know how the building and modernizing of so many K-12 schools would impact the space available. Additionally, with the opening of Nelson Mandela High School in the north and Joane Cardinal-Schubert High School in the south (Sept 2018), learning spaces in our system have opened up to accommodate Chinook Learning Services programming and students. Now that the options are known, the decisions have been made.