Home-School Boards That Register and Support Home Education Programs 2025-2026


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AHA recommends that viewers follow up with the schools for individual questions.

All information is up-to-date as of April 1, 2025

Boards are listed in alphabetical order for your convenience

Listings are provided for your convenience. AHA accepts no responsibility for individual boards programs, offerings or promotions


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ByDesign Program from Summit West Independent School

By Design Homeschooling

Unique Qualities:

  • We empower families and students to find freedom and flexibility through self-directed learning, from Kindergarten through High School
  • Facilitators who are passionate about home education and who have all homeschooled their own children
  • Parents can choose their facilitator. Visit the website to read facilitators' bios and connect with one of them prior to registering
  • Supports all approaches to parent-directed home education, such as Unschooling, Waldorf, etc.
  • Secular, inclusive, welcoming of all
  • Virtual visits
  • Website subscriptions including IXL and History Plus (discounted); Exambank, Enriched Academy, Canadian Reader / What in the World? (free)
  • All high school options supported: from interest-led non-credit learning (unschooling) to earning credits via Section 6 of the Home Education Regulation such as a full Alberta High School Diploma or credits only in courses needed for post-secondary admission
  • Providing inclusive, non-judgmental support to those following an organic, passion-driven approach where students embrace their interests and become confident life-long learners
  • Offers Home Education Kindergarten



CBE Homeschooling - Calgary Board of Education

Calgary Board of Education Homeschooling

Unique Qualities:

  • Offers "Part-Time" school in the form of Shared Responsibility
  • The School-provided part of the Shared Responsibility can be classroom-based from grades 1-9 in the form of 2 days per week for core subjects, art and physical education programming (gym available)
  • Classrooms have very small class sizes of 15 students in grades 1-5 and 12 students in grades 6-9
  • Offers a lending library, gym program, classes, activities and field trips for Home Education and Shared Responsibility
  • Offers a big playground
  • Offers a peer-support dedicated parent room onsite for parents waiting for their child to complete the day's classes
  • Offers activities that support parent-led instruction in the core subject areas
  • Offers an active Parent Advisory Council
  • Used to be named "Windsor Park"
  • CBE-Learn administers the grade 1-12 school-provided online program and Chinook Learning administers the high school classroom upgrading program.
  • Serves Calgary and area only



CFL - Connections For Learning

CFL - Connections For Learning

Unique Qualities: Site under construction - more information coming




Ignite Centre for E-Learning

Ignite Centre for E-Learning

Unique Qualities:

  • Staff recognizes and highly value the parent/caregiver role as a child's first educator and provides a high level of support
  • Experienced Home Education teachers that have home educated their own children
  • Offers access to the following subscriptions: Google Workspace Accounts, ExamBank access
  • offers digital repository curated over 20+ years of parent recommended resources for home educators
  • Offers activities that support cross-curricular learning and will enrich parent-led instruction in the core subject areas
  • Offers online facilitator meetings and in-home meetings as requested
  • Accepts rescue enrollments mid-year
  • Offers monthly field trips
  • Offers Section 6 portfolio review for Home Education High School credits
  • Offers offers a pathway from Home Education to teacher instructed online with "Home Education friendly" programming including project based learning, multiple options designed to ignite student learning, off campus and dual credit high school programming in addition to online knowledge and employability programming in junior high and highschool, and diploma route online courses.
  • Offers Home Education Kindergarten



Northstar Academy

Northstar Academy

Unique Qualities:

  • NorthStar Academy (NSA) values a flexible, Christ-centered learning community both virtually and face-to-face
  • Our courses and resources are designed to engage students in a biblical worldview while our homeroom model provides a place for community and belonging
  • Facilitators have Home Educated their own children
  • Offers learning subscriptions of the following: Starfall, Reading Eggs, IXL Math, What In The World, Currents 4 Kids and The Canadian Reader
  • Offers activity days, learning clusters, classes and field trips
  • Offers High School Limitless days
  • Offers a formal high school graduation ceremony
  • Offers Home Education programs and Shared Responsibility programs
  • Also offers school provided programs such as Online, and Print-Based
  • Accepts rescue students mid-year with no fee
  • Offers Section 6 portfolio review for Home Education High School credits
  • Offers Home Education Kindergarten



Peace River Home Learning Connection

Peace River Homeschooling

Unique Qualities:

  • Offers school class access to everyone including home education education and distance education within division. Children can accessand be welcomed in their local school for 1 or more classes while home educating.
  • Offers purchase orders and lending library
  • Offers classes and field trips
  • Offers parent and peer support groups
  • Offers classes, activities and field trips
  • All facilitators have Home Educated their own children
  • Accepts rescue students mid-year with no fee
  • Offers Section 6 portfolio review for Home Education High School credits
  • Offers Home Education Kindergarten



Phoenix Foundation

Phoenix Education Foundation

Phoenix Foundation on Facebook

Unique Qualities:

  • Provides a classroom experience that is hands-on
  • Offers Shared Responsibility with the school-provided portion in a classroom
  • All facilitators have home educated their own children
  • Offers Home Education Kindergarten



T.H.E.E. Traditional Home Education Experts - Elk Island Catholic School

THEE Homeschooling

Unique Qualities:

  • Offers entire funding in Fall and also purchase orders
  • Offers online "essay writing" tutorials
  • Offers field trips through out the year
  • Offers extensive video library of homeschooling "how-to's" as well as Q and A
  • Offers a Course Challenge for high school credits under Home Education
  • Facilitator visits can be virtual or onsite
  • Offers subscriptions to IXL, Exambank, Google Suite, and Microsoft365
  • Accepts students from all over Alberta
  • Offers a year-end homeschool graduation banquet
  • Offers Home Education Kindergarten



WISDOM Homeschooling

Wisdom Homeschooling

Unique Qualities:

  • Supports all teaching and learning styles
  • All facilitators have Home Educated their own children or were home educated graduates
  • Assists with education planning that develops the whole child
  • Offers purchase orders, monthly expense reimbursements, and resource lending library
  • Opportunities for sports through the Alberta Athletics program
  • Offers discounted licenses and links parents to free programs for Home Educators
  • Offers subscriptions to IXL, Minecraft for Education, Exambank, Google Suite, and Microsoft365
  • Offers field trips, educational family camps and workshops throughout the year
  • Offers Socratic Dialogue-classically based online courses
  • Offers Mediated Learning workshops (in person and online) to help overcome learning challenges
  • Links parents to support groups and local connection opportunities
  • Provides free support to parents overcoming their child's learning challenges
  • Provides a bi-monthly Home Education magazine
  • Sends 3-4 monthly e-newsletters with news, events, homeschool inspiration
  • Runs an annual Homeschooling Through High School Conference
  • Offers a year-end ballroom dance for graduates and their families
  • Offers Section 6 portfolio review for high school credits under Home Education with robust supports
  • Offers Home Education Kindergarten and offers a monthly kindergarten e-newsletter
  • Accepts rescue students mid-year for no fee



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