Sign up for the 2024/25 learning year at SelfDesign! Here are key dates to keep in mind

2024-03-06T15:35:06-08:00March 6th, 2024|Our Approach|

SelfDesign® Learning Community Re-enrolment NOW OPEN If you are a family with learners currently enrolled in our kindergarten to grade 12 program or with learners currently registered in SelfDesign® Home Learning who wish to transfer into SelfDesign Learning Community, we’re [...]

SelfDesign’s 2023 Community Report celebrates a year of community and achievements

2024-02-28T10:51:07-08:00February 28th, 2024|Our Approach|

We are delighted, proud and grateful to share with you SelfDesign® Learning Foundation’s 2023 Community Report. ✅ Download the 2023 Community Report The report reflects on our work and celebrates the many accomplishments the foundation, its learners, families, educators and [...]

Exciting camps coming this March for your children!

2024-03-03T17:59:05-08:00February 14th, 2024|HomeLearners Network, Our Approach|

Get ready for March camps from our HomeLearners Network program that will excite and inspire! Help your children get creative with Sticker Book Camp, Claymation Camp and Elements Art Camp, and learn some exciting new video game design skills in [...]

​​Learning together to help the planet and make the future a better place

2024-02-15T16:21:56-08:00February 7th, 2024|Featured-Blog, Our Approach|

This year, every Friday from October to May, several passionate and engaged learners gather online to learn and talk about how they can learn from the Earth and nurture it. The Earth-Wise Collective is a club for SelfDesign learners in [...]

SelfDesign celebrates winter and the end of the learning year’s first semester by building community

2024-01-04T13:46:24-08:00January 3rd, 2024|Our Approach|

Quebec City has its Winter Carnival. Winnipeg has the Festival du Voyageur. Edmonton has the Deep Freeze Festival. Many communities in Canada and beyond hold winter festivals. They celebrate light and community in the coldest, darkest time of year. They [...]

Get excited for the new year with awesome January learning activities!

2024-01-04T09:36:57-08:00December 13th, 2023|HomeLearners Network, Our Approach|

We couldn’t think of a better way to bring in 2024 than by introducing tons of new activities for your kids to explore! Celebrate the winter season with activities like Hibernation Hullabaloo and Winter Animal Finger Puppets. Combine art and [...]

​​The Design Post: For learners, by learners

2023-11-23T11:12:36-08:00November 22nd, 2023|Our Approach|

More than two years ago, in September 2021, a learner in grade 9 approached SelfDesign® Learning Community’s Principals Team with an idea. She wanted to know if the school would be interested in supporting a learners’ newspaper, written for and [...]

Building trust; building professional and interpersonal skills

2024-02-15T16:19:35-08:00November 15th, 2023|Our Approach|

By River Meyer, SelfDesign® Director of Organizational Learning & Culture Within SelfDesignLearning Foundation, we believe in the importance of professional and personal development through continuous learning. One of the offerings we provide to our contractors is called Community Conversation. These [...]

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

2024-02-15T16:19:47-08:00November 8th, 2023|Our Approach, Learner Stories|

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 [...]

Grade 6–7 and 8–9 Theme offerings help learners gain the skills they need to succeed in high school

2023-10-04T10:36:44-07:00October 4th, 2023|Our Approach|

Our Grade 6–7 Theme and Grade 8–9 Theme offerings allow learners to connect with their peers in safe, supportive online spaces, grow their comfort at communicating online and gain skills they’ll need in later grades.

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