POWER offers students an alternate secondary school experience that emphasizes greater individualized support and instruction, flexible schedules and timetables, and close-knit community learning.
Program features include:
- Flexible schedules and timetables to accommodate student needs.
- A variety of structured, self-paced courses offered across three terms per year or equal semesters to focus on fewer courses each term.
- Community building through shared breakfasts, lunches and celebration meals, and activities such as field trips and events.
- Regular one-on-one teacher meetings to monitor attendance and progress.
- Personal counselling and connections to external sources.
Information for POWER graduates
Important information for graduating POWER students about grad ceremonies, diplomas, transcripts, and more for the end of the current school year will be posted here when available.
POWER resources
Contact us
Interested in learning more about POWER and how to register your child? Contact us for more information:
200 – 1065 Columbia Street
New Westminster, B.C. V3M 6H7
- Phone: 604-571-6141
To report an absence:
- Call or text 604-219-2892 OR
- Report an absence online
POWER staff contacts
| POSITION | PHONE | ||
| Jim Russell | Vice-Principal | 604-517-6389 | |
| Tim Dang | Teacher (Art, Social Studies, PE) | ||
| Leif Haensel | Teacher (Science) | ||
| Haley Kwan Yee Lor | Teacher (English) | ||
| Lloyd Greene | Youth Care Worker | 604-219-2892 | |
| Lee Laufer | Indigenous Support Worker | ||
| Judy Linza | School Secretary | 604-517-6141 |