Windsor House is a publicly funded democratic K-12 school located in North Vancouver, BC and administered by the Gulf Islands School District.
At Windsor House, learning is
- Personalized — can happen any time, any place, at any pace
- Self-determined — students take charge to ensure relevance and engagement
- Constructivist — knowledge is created, not absorbed
- Experiential — the emphasis is on learning by doing and discovery
- Deep — higher-order thinking skills, not rote memorization
- Intrinsically motivated — no rewards or grades
- Technology-enriched — for knowledge, communication, exploration, expression, collaboration
- E-Portfolio-based — self-reflection, teacher feedback and conferencing instead of report cards
- Community-based — connected to the “real world” outside school walls
- Holistic — focused on learners as whole people