HomeRoots™
Learning at Home. Learning in Community.
HomeRoots™ is BEL-C’s community for families, educators, and providers creating meaningful learning experiences beyond traditional classrooms.
Whether you are homeschooling, supporting learning at home, operating a home-based childcare program, facilitating a learning pod, or building a richer learning environment, HomeRoots provides resources, mentorship, enrichment, and community support to help learning flourish.
Two Pathways. One Learning Community.
HomeRoots serves two interconnected communities: families creating learning experiences at home, and providers creating learning environments in homes and community spaces.
HomeRoots Learning Circle
For homeschool families, hybrid learners, alternative education families, and parents seeking richer learning experiences beyond school.
HomeRoots Providers’ Network
For home-based childcare providers, independent educators, tutors, nannies, learning pod facilitators, and microschool leaders.
Different Roles. Similar Questions.
Families and providers may serve children in different ways, but many of the learning questions are shared.
How do I create a meaningful learning environment?
How do I support curiosity and independence?
How do I choose learning materials?
How do I connect learning to real life?
How do I create belonging, rhythm, and community?
The HomeRoots Learning Circle
The Learning Circle brings families together through shared learning experiences, collaborative projects, enrichment opportunities, and community connection.
Nature & Community Exploration
Children investigate nature, neighbourhoods, community spaces, culture, and the world around them.
Creative Workshops
Families explore art, design, storytelling, music, making, building, and hands-on creative expression.
STREALM Projects
Project-based experiences connect science, nature, social studies, technology, research, engineering, art, language, and math.
Reading & Story Gatherings
Children build literacy, communication, imagination, listening, storytelling, and shared meaning through books and discussion.
Peer Connection
Children and families connect with others through collaborative learning, social experiences, and shared projects.
Seasonal Experiences
Families participate in seasonal enrichment, showcases, community events, and special learning invitations.
The HomeRoots Providers’ Network
The Providers’ Network supports educators and caregivers building learning environments outside traditional school systems.
Many providers work independently and often have limited access to mentorship, collaboration, curriculum support, and professional learning communities. HomeRoots creates a place to connect, learn, share ideas, and grow together.
Learning Environment Design
Support with room setup, learning corners, materials access, visual organization, flow, and child-centred spaces.
Curriculum & Planning Support
Guidance with STREALM implementation, monthly themes, learning invitations, provocations, and documentation.
Materials & Resources
Recommendations for learning materials, loose parts, books, manipulatives, art supplies, sensory tools, and practical life resources.
Observation & Documentation
Support with observing children, noticing learning, documenting growth, and communicating meaningfully with families.
Mentorship & Community
Provider circles, peer learning, coaching, shared reflection, collaborative planning, and professional encouragement.
Operational Guidance
Support with program rhythm, parent communication, routines, policies, business basics, and sustainable home-based practice.
Project-Based Learning Experiences
HomeRoots believes meaningful learning happens when children investigate real questions and create real responses.
Throughout the year, children and families may participate in projects connected to science and nature, community studies, art and design, engineering, reading and research, entrepreneurship, cultural exploration, and environmental stewardship.
How Learning Happens Through HomeRoots
HomeRoots experiences are guided by BEL-C’s learning cycle: Explore → Investigate → Design → Reflect.
Explore
Children and adults begin with interests, materials, nature, stories, culture, questions, and everyday experiences.
Investigate
Learners research, observe, compare, experiment, document, ask questions, and deepen understanding.
Design
They create projects, displays, models, journals, stories, experiments, presentations, and learning artifacts.
Reflect
Families and providers revisit learning, celebrate growth, notice patterns, document progress, and plan next steps.
Connected to the BEL-C Ecosystem
HomeRoots is one part of a larger BEL-C learning journey. Families and providers can connect to other pathways when they need enrichment, academic support, age-specific programming, or workforce development.
Programs by Age
Age-specific learning pathways from early childhood to adolescence.
Browse Age PathwaysBEY Talent
Professional development, staffing support, mentorship, and workforce pathways.
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Whether you are a parent, caregiver, homeschool family, home-based childcare provider, tutor, microschool founder, or independent educator, HomeRoots offers opportunities to learn, connect, and grow.