We believe all of our learners are special, but at the Virtual Commencement Ceremony held on June 13, SelfDesign_® recognized the Class of 2020 for an achievement unique to them. The group of SelfDesign learners are the first learners to have gone through SelfDesign® Learning Community’s newly designed high school program from Grade 10.

SelfDesign_® has been working to build cultural bridges across and throughout our own organization. Our efforts are driven by the more than 80 recommendations put forwards by SelfDesign’s Indigenous education task force, comprised of a First Nations elder, a First Nations SelfDesign parent and learner, and SelfDesign educators including those with Indigenous heritage.

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.

At SelfDesign_®, we believe that every learner has a unique voice, and our inclusive kindergarten to grade 12 program is committed to listening to each and every child – however they are able to communicate. Every learner with special needs is unique, and we reflect this by providing programming that is personalized or individualized to each learner.

SelfDesign_® Learning Community is one of the largest independent online learning schools in British Columbia. If you are interested in providing your child with a SelfDesign learning experience, here is a list of the documents you need to have in place to enrol – and re-enrol.

In order to satisfy our contractual relationship with the B.C. Ministry of Education and to ensure that our learning program is clear for learners and families, our work and learning together is guided by 18 program agreements. We make these commitments to each other in order to best support learners’ and families’ full participation in SelfDesign_®.

SelfDesign_® Learning Community is an online learning and personalized learning school. One of the key tenets of our approach is that learning takes place at home, online and in the community. If you are considering enrolling your child in SelfDesign, we recommend that you give some thought to the considerations outlined in this post.

Whether it's around sexual orientation and gender identity, or issues related to the interconnected nature of different aspects of identity and diversity – such as race, religion and ability – SelfDesign_® has always strived to be, and prided itself on being, an inclusive place where learners are comfortable to be themselves authentically. 

These 10 tips from SelfDesign_® Learning Foundation capture the successful strategies, approaches and best practices that our B.C. certified educators rely on to ensure learners are learning, meet Ministry of Education requirements, and are engaged in their own learning.

The 10 tips from SelfDesign_® Learning Foundation capture the successful strategies, approaches and best practices that our parents rely on to ensure learners are learning, meet Ministry of Education requirements, and are engaged in their own learning.