Case Study
Garden Valley School Division
Overview Garden Valley School Division (GVSD) edu cates more than 4,300 K–12 students and em ploys 600 educators and admini strators across 12 facilities throughout south cen tral Manitoba, just outside the capital city of Winnipeg. GVSD has an annual growth rate of approximately 300 students per year. Challenge GVSD built its reputation of superior education by offering a wide range of highquality pro grams and services to prepare students to eventually compete in a fastpaced job mar ket. Yet its lapse in technology innovation left many teachers and admini strators feeling they weren’t adequately preparing students for a world increasingly run online—thus breaching the ethics instilled within the foundation of GVSD’s mission. GVSD needed to find a way to help teach
