SelfDesign’s Indigenous Education offerings continually evolve to further reconciliation and deepen our approach to First Peoples Principles of Learning Part 2 in our series on how we seek out and apply continuous learning and continuous improvement to all aspects of SelfDesign. SelfDesign works to advance the journey toward reconciliation by building cultural bridges to Indigenous ways of being, seeing [...]
At SelfDesign Learning Foundation, we believe learning is a continuous and cumulative process. We apply this core belief and guiding value to every aspect of our organizational and educational approach. As an organization and a community, we are committed to continually seeking to innovate by continuing to explore and create new opportunities for increasing our impact on learners, families, contractors [...]
Inspectors from the BC Ministry of Education and Child Care gave SelfDesign® Learning Community two commendations on the school’s annual external evaluation from the Ministry, this year a Monitoring Inspection. “The external evaluation process is an opportunity to reflect on how we’re doing,” says SelfDesign Learning Community Principal Catherine Dinim. “This year, it coincided with our re-accreditation meetings with Cognia, [...]
SelfDesign® Learning Community recently received a glowing performance re-accreditation from the pre-eminent Cognia network. The re-accreditation — SelfDesign’s second since it was first accredited by Cognia in 2011 — demonstrates the school’s continuing success at meeting the needs of its learners and families and helps us see where we can improve further. Cognia offers accreditation and certification, assessment, professional services [...]
Part 4 in our series on how we seek out and apply continuous learning and continuous improvement to all aspects of SelfDesign When SelfDesign designed a new math offering for learners in grades 8 and 9 in 2022, our Education Programs team based the new add-on course on what they had learned earlier, when they piloted a grade 11 [...]
Part 3 in our series on how we seek out and apply continuous learning and continuous improvement to all aspects of SelfDesign. As an online school, SelfDesign® Learning Community relies on its technology to facilitate communication and interaction between our learners, our educators and our contractors. Although many of our families spend much of their time learning off-line and [...]
BC Ministry of Education inspectors praised SelfDesign Learning Community for how we approach education and support our learners, educators and community. They also really like our grade 10 introductory Math offering.
In February 2019, SelfDesign® Learning Community received a very positive performance accreditation from Cognia (formerly called AdvancEd), a non-profit, non-partisan organization that has been accrediting schools for over 100 years, with a commitment to ensure schools are ‘good enough’ and to help them improve.
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 sessions, held on an online meeting platform, cover a variety of topics and are a setting for interaction and discussion. [...]
