For SelfDesign, being accessible means creating learning and work environments that allow everyone to participate fully without barriers. We aim to become more accessible. This approach is key to who we are as a community. As we increase access to [...]
It was the fall of 1985, and I was a few weeks into the second grade when my parents grew concerned. I was returning home from school decidedly miserable. My teacher was strict. Her classroom felt rigid and stifling. As [...]
When Wyatt Miller-Unser commenced from SelfDesign® Learning Community in 2013, he had basically completed a curriculum that he had designed to further his own interests in photography, videography and graphic design. The Kelowna-based learner was one of hundreds of learners [...]
SelfDesign educator Darcy Kaltio tells a story of how nurturing and supportive the SelfDesign approach to learning is. In about 2006, a child and mother visited the Wondertree Learning Centre in Vancouver, where Darcy was working, to see if it [...]
Katherine’s Virtual High story Katherine Muncaster joined Virtual High in 1993, one of the first 35 learners to enroll with the revolutionary new learning program for teens that Brent Cameron and Michael Maser created in an old Vancouver mansion. She [...]
Freedom is what Tallisen Soong Smith appreciates most about her four years with Wondertree and SelfDesign. That, and the ability to mix learning and play. “It was only in my later years, in my 20s, that I realized I’d been [...]
When six-year-old Ilana asked her dad to teach her at home instead of enrolling her in grade one at a local Vancouver brick-and-mortar school, Brent embarked on what would become a decades-long educational experiment in personalized learning to support his [...]
Procurement supports learners, families and the SelfDesign organization SelfDesign® Learning Foundation’s Director of Procurement brings deep and broad experience in the field to the role. As an accredited and certified supply chain management and procurement specialist, Paul Mackisoc has managed [...]
When SelfDesign® Learning Community merged with the International School of the Kootenays in 2009 and began offering grades 10 to 12 to young people across B.C., educator Diane Walters came to SelfDesign as part of the package. The well-known Nelson-based [...]
Drawing on almost 20 years of experience producing video games in the U.K., Kalev Tait recently co-founded video-game company Ludic Lemur in 2023 in Vancouver. The Virtual High alumnus had returned, with his young family, to the city where he [...]
