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Homeschooling in Alberta

What Alberta actually asks of a family teaching their own children. Written plainly, and honest where the answer is that nobody asks for anything.

CanadaFiling required

Who is in charge

Alberta Education (Minister / Executive Director of Field Services) for unsupervised programs; an associate school board or associate independent school for supervised programs

Who actually reviews your child

Supervised: a certificated teacher employed by the associate board or associate independent school. Unsupervised: nobody, unless the Executive Director of Field Services opens an investigation under s.1.2.

What you must file

Home Education Notification Form - Supervised by School Authority

Annual. The live alberta.ca page (2026-08-19) prints both dates: notified and accepted 'before September 30' for the 50% grant, and 'not eligible for funding if a home education program is accepted after September 29'. AR 89/2019 fixes no calendar date. This is a FUNDING date, not a legal filing deadline.

Goes to: A willing associate board or associate independent school

Home Education Notification Form - Not Supervised by School Authority

AR 89/2019 s.1.1(3): 'in a form and manner approved by the Minister and within the time required by the Minister' - the regulation itself fixes no calendar date.

Goes to: Minister of Education (Alberta Education, Field Services)

Written description of the home education program

Supervised programs only, and only where the program does NOT follow the Alberta Programs of Study. Timelines are set by each school authority. Must contain, per AR 89/2019 s.3(6): (a) the activities selected and how they enable the student to achieve the applicable outcomes, (b) instructional methods and resources, (c) the means of conducting evaluations of progress, (d) the name of the instructor if not the parent.

Goes to: The associate board or associate independent school

Parent must also certify (s.3(5)(a)) that the selected activities will enable the student to achieve the applicable outcomes, and the school authority must accept the program.

Records of the parent's own evaluations

AR 89/2019 s.4(1): conduct evaluations at regular intervals, keep a record of the methods and DATES, and keep dated samples of student work and a general record of the student's activities.

Goes to: Retained by the parent; produced to the supervising authority on request

Availability for the school authority's evaluations

AR 89/2019 s.4(2)(b): at least 2 evaluations of the student's progress in each school year, conducted by a teacher employed by the authority, at a mutually agreeable time and place, with the parent present if they choose.

How often: twice per school year

Goes to: Associate board or associate independent school

Supervised route only.

The words a reviewer uses

Alberta Programs of Study / new K-6 curriculum; or the Schedule of Learning Outcomes for Students Receiving Home Education Programs That Do Not Follow the Alberta Programs of Study (in AR 89/2019)

Organizing Idea · Guiding Question · Learning Outcome · applicable outcomes

The part the paperwork does not cover

Filing on time is the easy half. The harder half is the year in between: showing what your child actually learned, in words the reviewer recognises, without turning your home into a school.

That is what this app is for. You say what your child did, in a sentence. It maps that to the real curriculum for Alberta and builds the record you can hand over the day someone asks. See how it works.

Start your record

Other places in Canada

British ColumbiaManitobaNew BrunswickNewfoundland and LabradorNorthwest TerritoriesNova ScotiaNunavutOntarioPrince Edward IslandQuebecSaskatchewanYukon
Read at the government's own source. Every requirement above was checked word for word against the authority's own page or statute, on the date shown.
Last read at the source on 2026-08-11: Home education | Alberta.ca. That is the date we read it, not the date the rule last changed.
Check it yourself: the authority's own page.