Our Team
About Us
Helping Students Learn
Our Team
Our teaching team is dedicated to nurturing the diverse gifts and talents of all our students through a personalized, compassionate, and community-oriented education.
With a variety of backgrounds, skills and qualifications, our facilitators are equipped to help your son or daughter reach their full potential.
If you share our values and beliefs, it would be our honour and privilege to provide you with more information about how the learning centre is different “by design”.
Rick Schenk
Grade 7/8 Teacher, Principal
Teaching at By Design Learning is like a breath of fresh air. After 30 years in education, it is refreshing to let a cool, crisp breeze flow through the stale halls of the traditional school model. I am very thankful for the rare opportunity to renew my passion and love for teaching with a group of like-minded educators and parents.
Email: rick@bydesignlearning.ca
Paula Hernando
Grade JK/SK Teacher
While investing many years in early childhood education I’ve imagined what an ideal teaching environment would look like. Nurturing and care for one another, excitement and enthusiasm for life and learning, celebration in achievement and joy in working hard. I realize that I’ve been imagining and longing for a place like By Design Learning Centre.
Kindergarten is a joy to teach! I love all of it. I love the thrill of something new the children want to share, the smiles and giggles with each funny story, the creativity and kindness that catch me off guard. Even the fact that a difficult day can be refreshed and erased during the next sunrise.
Each new child brings all that they are to their Kindergarten class. Every happy part, struggling part, successes of goals achieved and three to 5 years of skills and personality to demonstrate in their first weeks of school. I can’t wait to meet them.
Email: paula@bydesignlearning.ca
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“Relationships before rigor. Grace before grades. Patience before programs. Love before lessons.”
- Dr. Brad Johnson