HomeLearners Network (HLN) offers a playground of fun, online learning activities for your home learner. Our guides excel in both crafting and leading diverse STEAM-focused activities that blend multiple subjects into topics that kids love. Our goal is to create a fun, interactive, and hands-on learning experience for your kid! We're thrilled to add the creativity of our brand-new Guides, [...]
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 would be a better option for her than public school. “I honestly love it so much,” says Celeste, whose main [...]
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.
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, he took one of the program’s first-year-level courses as part of the BC Ministry of Education and Child Care’s dual-credit [...]
In 2021, when SelfDesign Education Assistant Meghan mentioned to colleague Talisha that she thought she had been the only person who had applied for the position in 2020, Talisha set her straight. “No. No, you weren’t,” Talisha said. “I know, because I applied for it, too.” Meghan, who commenced from SelfDesign as a learner in 2017, came into the role [...]
Careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) are becoming ever more important, and at SelfDesign, learners who finish grade 12 with a Dogwood Diploma have the same opportunities to pursue post-secondary studies and careers in STEM as any other learners who graduate from high school in B.C. At SelfDesign® Learning Community, we are applying cutting-edge educational research to our [...]
On October 30, 2022, 18-year-old Nicholas set a world record in the men's 200-metre freestyle S14 swimming event at the FINA [International Swimming Federation] World Cup preliminaries in Toronto. Three months earlier, he had set a Commonwealth Games record in the 200-m freestyle S14 Para swimming event in Birmingham, England. Those achievements followed a silver medal in the same event [...]
SelfDesign® Learning Community is all about supporting learners so that they can be successful in their learning and in meeting their learning goals. It’s what we do. It’s what we’re known for. It’s what sets us apart from many other schools. As part of that, SelfDesign Support Services arranges support for learners and their families who have been diagnosed with [...]
SelfDesign believes in the safety, acceptance and inclusion of all learners in regard to ability, learning style, culture, race, personal or spiritual beliefs, and gender identity and expression. We work year-round to find ways to implement SOGI 123 (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity 123) throughout our organization and offerings to support our learners and other community members who identify as [...]
SelfDesign believes that learning happens in relationship and in community. To help make this happen, we offer safe spaces where our learners can gather, connect and share. These include everything from our Genius Hours for learners in grade 3 to 9 to our themes, workshops and circles for learners in grades 6 to 12. One secure online space we hold [...]