Seed Grades 5-9 Program

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 Seed program brings students together with Google Workspace, including Google Classroom and many other digital 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 them to learn at their own pace and through their personal interests. The virtual aspect allows pacing, technology in the place of handwriting, and robust support through EA and/or parents in the home.

Success

A high percentage of students move on from Seed to a Dogwood or Adult Dogwood, when it wasn't part of the original planning earlier in their academic schooling. Seed focus on building the core competencies, building on a student's strengths and teaching students how to self-advocate for support. Seed also helps students who want academic programs when Dogwood isn't the focus. Most students end up doing 2-3 years of the Seed program due to their huge growth, an increase of self-confidence, social skills, and even taking on leadership within the small group synchronous classes.

Vision Statement

In Seed, 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].


2024/2025 Seed Course Offerings

ALL Seed classes follow Ministry Requirements and build towards Graduation

Seed Math grades 7-9

ALL Seed classes follow Ministry Requirements and build towards Graduation

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. 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:

Student Tasks

Class Connections

Dates

Class Schedule 

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9-10 am Seed Math 8&9 Open Office Hours
Seed Lite ADST Module (Starting Feb 2025) Seed (Christian Studies, English, Science, Socials and ADST) 5-7
10-11 am
Seed Math 7

Seed Math 8
Seed Math 7

Seed Math 8
Seed (Christian Studies, English, Science, Socials and ADST) 8-9
11-12




12-1 pm          
1-2 pm
Seed Math 9
Seed Math 9

Technology & Resources Needed and Utilized

Student Admittance Process

  1. Only available to Inclusive Education or Learning Services designated students or recommended by Learning Services/Learning Coach. If you are unsure, please contact your case manager teacher to ask more about admittance.
  2. The application form is completed by IE Case Manager or Learning Support.
  3. HCOS considers the privacy and protection of student information of utmost importance. We also hold the value of community and the relationship between students and teachers to be paramount. In an online learning environment, this is achieved primarily through the use of technology including, but not limited to: Zoom, Google Workplace, Google Classroom, and FlipGrid.

    These services, and others, allow our teachers and students to share information, share recorded class sessions and interact with each other at a distance. As such student names and faces may be visible in recordings shared with students and parents.

    Prior to participating in a class that may involve some form of recorded student presence, we ask that you review our online session recordings policy and complete the question below.
    Online Recording Policy
    Please let you IE Casemanager or LSC know that you agree with this policy for acceptance into Seed.

  4. Please note that the coursework is managed through Google Classroom.  Family and students must be comfortable with having a student account with Google. Legal Guardians must sign the school forms on the Google Student Policy as part of the admittance process.
  5. Students and Family/Guardian will be emailed a "Get to know you form" in September to gather further information and best ensure success/support within Seed.
  6. Seed is a 10-month synchronous program (September to June). We require a commitment for the 10 months from a family, student, IE Teacher 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 and return for 2-3 more years in the Seed program. These are celebrated moments of growth.  



Revision #59
Created 1 June 2020 20:14:05 by Steve Bastian
Updated 29 January 2025 17:35:12 by Steve Bastian