The Hub is a part-time online microschool that brings homeschooled tweens and teens together for shared activities, life skills, and community.
Its curiosity-led, small-group format fosters intellectual, social, and emotional growth. By meeting online twice a week, participants can retain the flexibility of homeschooling, while also experiencing the many benefits of a supportive and steady community of peers and mentors.
In our expertly facilitated groups, young people ages 10 to 16 engage with similar-aged peers on highly interactive activities, from short discussions to months-long projects. The format is open-ended and interdisciplinary, with activities selected and shaped collaboratively as a group, based on interest and curiosity.
Some popular activity examples include: collaborative art and storytelling; games on themes such as geography, financial literacy, and physics (e.g., through rollercoaster design); digital escape rooms; math puzzles; research-informed discussions (on any topics that have piqued interest, from the morality of cloning; to how Canadian and American Thanksgivings differ; or how lava lamps work); Wikihunts; book clubs; and complex multimedia projects culminating in videos, slide shows, books, or websites.
This empowering approach—bolstered by everyone sharing their ideas and perspectives, and facilitators using the Socratic method to encourage deeper thinking—harnesses young people's natural motivation to learn, stretching their intellects in an organic way that spans many subjects and leads to a more holistic understanding of themselves and the world. It also builds essential personal and interpersonal skills, such as teamwork, agency, creativity and communication. And it encourages meaningful connections with peers and mentors, during a life stage when this is developmentally vital, yet challenging to achieve through shorter or more sporadic activities.
Each cohort has a maximum of 10 young people, plus two facilitators, and the cohorts age up with the participants.
To see if it's a good fit for your child, please visit our website to attend an open house or arrange an individual meeting.
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