SelfDesign learner recognized as Youth Citizen of the Year in her community

In March this year, Evelyn received a phone call from the Rotary Club of Ashcroft/Cache Creek telling her they were recognizing her as the Youth Citizen of the Year for all the volunteer work she’d done over the two previous [...]

2024-06-20T12:52:38-07:00June 20th, 2024|Learner Stories|

At university and armed with full suite of learning skills:

Interview with SelfDesign alum Amanda, Class of 2020 Amanda finished her SelfDesign journey in 2020. She was one of the first group of learners who  piloted our integrated grade 10 to 12 program through its three-year rollout. Like many others [...]

2024-05-16T11:05:03-07:00May 16th, 2024|Learner Stories|

SelfDesign made learning fun and engaging in every aspect

Lia Meyer, Class of 2015, still feels that way Lia, a member of SelfDesign® Learning Community’s Class of 2015, came to Canada and Wondertree, SelfDesign’s predecessor in-person school, with her mother, River Meyer. They were living in Colorado when River [...]

2025-03-03T16:08:44-08:00April 10th, 2024|Learner Stories|

Sarah Graeme, Class of 2013: SelfDesign reignited a love for learning and inspired a career in the arts

Sarah Graeme recently moved to Denman Island to work with and learn from noted B.C. artist Gordon Hutchens, whose wood-fired ceramics pieces are featured in collections around the world. Ceramics by Sarah Graeme, © Sarah Graeme This is [...]

2024-05-06T15:15:50-07:00February 21st, 2024|Learner Stories|

This learner was accepted into Canada’s top architecture school 

When Daniel was looking into post-secondary opportunities to continue after grade 12, he was most intrigued by the Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism program at the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Every year, more than [...]

2025-03-03T16:09:16-08:00January 24th, 2024|Learner Stories|

SelfDesign learner excels in science and math, achieves prestigious academic award

Owain is by all accounts humble and uncomfortable with anything that could be mistaken for pride. So when the recent SelfDesign learner and member of SelfDesign’s Class of 2023 received notice that he’d won the Governor General’s Academic Medal in [...]

2023-11-30T16:41:27-08:00November 30th, 2023|Learner Stories|

Preparation and support help reduce the stress of Grade 10 and 12 provincial assessments, SelfDesign learner says

Celeste has spent her entire schooling journey to date with SelfDesign® Learning Community, beginning in 2012, when she started grade one. Her parents had learned about our kindergarten to grade 12 program when she was a toddler and thought it [...]

2024-09-13T07:31:37-07:00November 8th, 2023|Parents/Guardians, Our Approach, Learner Stories|

The Ingram-Milne family loves the flexibility of home learning

Alyssa and her husband chose home learning for their daughter Lupine (grade 6) and son Sawyer (grade 3) because it gives their family much-needed flexibility. She loves that they spend so much time outdoors and that home learning made Alyssa [...]

Home learning helps the Hagemann family explore the world on their own terms

Christina Hagemann loves that she gets to spend so much time with her kids! Her daughter Riya (age 12) and son Adrian (age 10) have been learning from home for years, and she’s grateful that this route has provided them [...]

2023-10-11T09:12:20-07:00October 11th, 2023|Learner Stories|

SelfDesign helped this learner get a headstart on university

When Cass starts the Bachelor of Arts program in Digital Media Studies at Vancouver Island University this month, he already will have one of the four-year program’s courses under his belt. Cass commenced from SelfDesign in June. During grade 12, [...]

2023-09-06T16:07:24-07:00September 6th, 2023|Learner Stories|
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