Three Winnipeg principals have made the list of Canada's outstanding principals, with two coming from Pembina Trails.

Michelle Lawrence, Troy Scott, and Charles Tinman have been named to The Learning Partnership's list of Canada's Outstanding Principals for 2018.

Scott, the principal at Acadia Junior High School in the Pembina Trails School Division, has taken on the challenge of running a school with an incredibly diverse population and turned it into an opportunity.

"(Scott) is innovative, he's open, he's creative, and he engages the kids," said Janice Lukes, city councillor for South Winnipeg and Saint Norbert. "The school is bursting at the seams and . . . he just embraces it as a strength."

In Acadia Junior High, which takes kids from Fort Richmond and Waverley West, newcomer students make up 56 percent of the population, while over 50 languages have been spoken. Scott has started before and after school programs that cater to different learning needs and help build leadership skills.

Tinman is the principal at Niakwa Place School, part of the Louis Riel School Division. The Learning Partnership describes Tinman as "an advocate for the arts and an explorer of the unknown, constantly pushing students towards deeper learning."

Tinman, like Scott, has engaged newcomers in his community. He invites parents in during lunch hour to volunteer, share skills, and continue to enhance their English.

Lawrence spearheaded a Pembina Trails School Division initiative called Making the Move. This helped restructure 15 different schools, creating a more responsive and effective learning environment. That includes her school, Ecole secondaire Oak Park High School.

In a strange twist, Lawrence started teaching at Acadia Junior High, where she taught grade eight math and science. Future Acadia principal Scott was in that classroom.

This was the fourth year in a row that a principal from Pembina Trails made the list.