Seed Grad

Seed Grad offers two streams where students can build their skills and gain credits towards their Dogwood while working towards success in their Grad program years.

To sign up for Seed Grad, please contact your IE Case Manager, Grad Advisor or Learning Services support.

Seed Information Session Recording 2024

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Overview

Seed facilitates a group experience in a creative environment under the guidance and direction of a HCOS Seed teacher. The HCOS Seed program brings students together with Brightspace and universal supports such as Google Workplace, Read&Write, Grammarly other resources, allowing EA or parent support to be given easily. The exciting and innovative virtual tools create expectations that encourage students to strive to reach their potential. Seed successfully captivates students, allowing flexibility and adaptations while working towards completing classes towards their Dogwood.

Success

Seed focuses on building the BC core competencies, building students' strengths and teaching students how to self-advocate for support. The Seed program sees growth academically, improved executive functioning skills, and an increase of self-confidence, social skills and students taking on leadership within the small group synchronous classes. 

Vision Statement

Within the Seed model, the goal is that all learning is planted deeply and given the opportunity to be rooted and grounded with solid comprehension. By fully experiencing learning practically and personally with authentic and meaningful projects wherein choice, collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and creativity are a part of the teaching pedagogy, students’ educational experiences will far surpass mere knowledge without experience. Learners will be filled up with the richest of opportunities to grow and blossom into who God has created them to be, and also be provided with meaningful interactions and experiences with the world around them as followers of our amazing, loving God.

Ephesians 3: 16-19 Amp.
May He grant you out of the riches of His glory, to be strengthened and spiritually energized with power through His Spirit in your inner self, [indwelling your innermost being and personality], 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your faith. And may you, having been [deeply] rooted and [securely] grounded in love, 18 be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints (God’s people) the width and length and height and depth of His love [fully experiencing that amazing, endless love]; 19 and [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself].


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2024/2025 Seed Course Offerings

Benefits

The heart and soul of the Seed Program and the Seed Teachers is to love, care, and guide each individual student along their own path, fulfilling the academic and social goals of BC’s Modernized Curriculum and Competencies. Through the guidance, inspiration, and support of the Holy Spirit, we, the Seed teachers, hope that the students will experience the knowledge of God’s love for themselves. Benefits of the program include:

Class Connections

Individual Meetings
Each new student will connect 1:1 for 45 minutes with the Seed Teacher for the first two weeks. After the first two weeks, the 1:1 schedule will be every other week. These time slots are chosen individually in consultation with the Seed teacher. As time is particularly booked to fit the student and teacher schedule at the beginning of the year, changes cannot be made during the year. If a meeting is missed, a make-up time is unavailable; however, each teacher has drop-In office hours that students can attend.

Group Meetings
Group meetings are on Thursdays. Details will be announced. All meetings are held via Zoom and the links for the meetings will be shared in September. If meeting links are changed throughout the year, they will be communicated to students via Brightspace and/or email. If a connection time is to be missed, please inform the Seed teacher; work due is still expected to be turned in on time.

Dates

Synchronous Class Schedule

Times Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday  Friday
9-10
Workplace Math 10
Science 10
ADST 10
Foundations & Pre-Cal Math 10 
Science 10
ADST 10
 
10-11

Humanities 10


Technology & Resources Needed and Utilized

Student Admittance Process

The Seed program is only available to Inclusive Education or Learning Services designated students or students who are recommended by Learning Services. If you are unsure, please contact your teacher/case manager to ask more about admittance.

To be admitted to Seed:

  1. Your IE Case Manager or LSC will complete the Seed application form. (Talk to your IE Case Manager, LSC or IE Grad Advisor). 

  2. The student and family will be emailed a "Get to know you form" in order to gather further information and best ensure success/supports within Seed.

  3. Complete the Universal Supports Form as it is needed for all Seed students (Please choose Google Workplace, Grammarly, and Read&Write)


Seed is a 10-month synchronous program (September to June). We require commitment for the 10 months, from a family, student, IE Case Manager and EAs to ensure success. Students sometimes hit the "proverbial wall" and may require extra effort from the entire team to climb over and proceed to success in the program. We have seen students who remain committed to a whole school year are successful. These are celebrated moments of growth. 

Please contact Steve Bastian, the Seed Administrator, if you have any questions.


Revision #38
Created 5 June 2023 22:11:53 by Steve Bastian
Updated 9 May 2025 17:44:59 by Steve Bastian