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

2024-05-06T15:15:21-07:00February 7th, 2024|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

2024-09-13T07:31:37-07:00November 8th, 2023|Parents, 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.

40 years of lifelong learning: We’re planning great things for SelfDesign’s 40th Anniversary

2024-09-05T10:30:15-07:00September 27th, 2023|Anniversary, Our Approach|

In 1984, our founder, Brent Cameron, registered the organization called SelfDesign® Learning Foundation with the Province of British Columbia. His goal: to provide choice in education for families and learners of all ages across B.C. and beyond by putting learners [...]

SelfDesign seeks to improve access and remove barriers for learners, families and contractors

2023-08-31T16:00:22-07:00August 31st, 2023|Our Approach|

At SelfDesign, being accessible means creating learning and working environments that allow everyone to participate fully without barriers. “We are committed to providing a learning and working environment that supports all learners, families and contractors and provides equitable opportunities to [...]

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