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Program Description
 
At Baywood Learning Centers, families, educators and learners co-create exciting and dynamic learning programs in an environment that supports individual goals.  Each learner at Baywood has a unique customized curriculum designed to serve their unique learning style, special interests and academic needs.  At Baywood Learning Centers, the child's interests, abilities, learning style, family culture as well as emotional and physical state are at the base of the academic goals driving the learning curriculum.  Learn more about how we started on the right side of this page. 
 
Baywood Learning Centers is the only educational model ACTUALLY DESIGNED BY CHILDREN who love to learn FOR CHILDREN who love to learn. 
The goal of Baywood is not to prepare the learners to live out the dreams of well meaning caretakers, but to empower them to as fully as possible, self actualize and manifest their own dreams. 
The learners work with Mentors in "Pods" of 5 to 8 learners in the group. Our students are active participants in their learning process and are encouraged to take an active part in the design of their individual curriculum.  By integrating learners into the decision-making process of the  educational planning with as much transparency as possible, each learner attains optimum engagement to become fully invested in their personal education goals.


 
 
 
 

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Baywood's campus 2007-2011

BLC History

 

Baywood Learning Center was founded by a mother desperate to serve the needs of her highly sensitive (gifted) child. An experienced entrepreneur, Grace Neufeld was frustrated by the amount of time she was spending at a highly rated public school advocating for her child's intense needs. She reasoned that by redirecting her time to home-school, she could achieve most of her child's needs herself. While home-schooling she experienced driving long distances to find resources that would satiate the voracious mind of her learner. Many of the techniques grounding the BLC model today were developed during this home-school journey that began in 2004.

 
In 2007 Baywood Learning Center was officially launched with the idea to create a central location to conduct high level education programs for gifted children.  It took a few years of trial and error to discover the quintessential education model  for highly and profoundly gifted learners. Supported by top influencers in the gifted community, our initial guides were the legendary Dr. Annamarie Roeper, Dr. Linda K. Silverman, and Anne Beneventi, but it was the learners themselves from whom the most clear direction was received. We honed and expanded on processes that worked and eliminated anything that failed to support our students.
 
Word of our success was getting out and we were being deluged with enrollment inquiries. At about that same time, late in 2009, our founder and director sustained a serious traumatic brain injury. After coming out of a coma, she had to relearn how to talk and walk... from scratch!
 
With daily therapy she was finally able leave the wheelchair, walker and cane behind. She also relearned how to talk.  Our program closed temporarily while she recovered. Throughout her recovery time, enrollment inquiries continued to pour in through our website.
 
In 2011 the decision was made to leave our small campus and prepare for an expansion.  
 
In 2012 we closed operations as a corporation and reopened under a new but similar legal name: Baywood Learning Centers (plural) to reflect our new direction for multiple enrichment programs and more community focus.
 
2012-2019 BLC continued to operate as an enrichment program serving gifted home-school families and as a public school enrichment resource.
 
2020 When Covid-19 hit the world we prepared for the many families needing a new education system for educating their children. In a way, it is a good thing that government schools closed, because parents need to be more involved with their children's education. BLC is here to help parents create an education program that focuses on real learning, talent development and family values.
 
Emerging in the Forest, our model continues to be led by the needs of individual students and their families through our highly successful Mentor and Maestros model. The Baywood Forest School is now enrolling.
 
 

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For more about our Learners, click here: highly gifted children



"We value good questions over good answers" Grace Neufeld, Baywood Director