Curriculum & learning design · Vancouver, BC
Learning experiences designed to work.
Common Thread Learning helps organizations design stronger programs, courses, training, and learning systems. We connect sound learning design with practical implementation so that learners stay engaged, staff know what to deliver, and programs are built to grow.
From curriculum and program strategy to workplace training and e-learning, we turn expertise into learning experiences people can understand, use, and remember.
- Education and youth programming
- Arts and community organizations
- Workplace learning and staff development
- Construction and skilled-trades organizations
- Safety, compliance, onboarding and respectful-workplace training
- E-learning and blended learning
Strong expertise, no curriculum capacity.
Many organizations have subject-matter expertise, talented educators and meaningful program ideas, but no dedicated curriculum-development capacity. A program may have grown organically, instructors may each approach it differently, or a new initiative may need an educational structure before it can launch.
Our work connects educational design with implementation: outcomes, sequence and assessment alongside instructor capacity, learner readiness, communication, staffing, enrollment, resources and evaluation.
Built from inside real programs
Learning design informed by delivery.
Common Thread brings together more than a decade of teaching and program-delivery experience with curriculum development, educational psychology and program operations. The result is learning design that considers not only what should be taught, but what instructors, learners and organizations need in order to make it work.
- Curriculum and learning pathways
- Early-childhood, youth and adult learning
- Instructor and facilitator resources
- Program operations and implementation
Workplace learning
Onboarding, staff development, operational training and practical resources designed around real working conditions.
Services
Six engagements, scoped to the decision in front of you.
Review an existing curriculum, design the architecture for what comes next, build a complete program, connect levels into a pathway, or set the direction for learning across a portfolio.
Curriculum review
Understand what is working, what is missing, and where to invest next.
2–4 weeks · CAD $2,500–$5,000
What this includesCurriculum blueprint
Build the educational architecture before investing in detailed content.
3–6 weeks · CAD $4,000–$7,500
What this includesComplete curriculum build
Move from an educational idea to a complete, teachable program.
6–12 weeks · CAD $8,000–$18,000+
What this includesLearning pathway
Connect separate programs into a progression learners can understand and educators can deliver.
8–16 weeks · CAD $15,000–$35,000+
What this includesEducational program design
Turn an idea or identified community need into a program that can launch.
6–14 weeks · CAD $10,000–$25,000+
What this includesOrganizational learning strategy
Create a coherent direction for learning across a portfolio of programs.
3–6 months · CAD $25,000–$60,000+
What this includes
Selected work
Selected work
Examples of curriculum review, program design, curriculum development and learning-pathway work across different educational settings.
Level 1 group keyboard curriculum
Independent Music School
A ten-month group piano curriculum for mixed-age beginners, written so any instructor can pick it up mid-year and teach to the same milestones.
Read the case studyCurriculum and program reviewEnrollment and program performance review
Martial Arts Academy
A review of a multi-age martial arts program facing a steep year-over-year enrollment decline and rising class cancellations.
Read the case studyCurriculum build and facilitator toolkitCustomer Service Foundations
Professional Training Provider
An eight-lesson workplace series that builds customer-service judgement in frontline staff through short, activity-led sessions.
Read the case studyProgram review and level architectureSmall hands, independent music
Early-childhood ukulele pathway
A four-level classical fingerstyle ukulele pathway for children aged four and a half to nine, replacing a single broad beginner class taught differently by every teacher.
Read the case studyHow an engagement works
Defined stages, defined decisions
- 01
Discover
We clarify the learner, organizational context, goals, existing materials, constraints and the decisions the project needs to support.
- 02
Design
We develop the learning or program architecture and bring key decisions back to your team at agreed milestones.
- 03
Develop
The approved architecture becomes the curriculum, pathway, resources, program model or strategy defined in the scope.
- 04
Review
Your project lead gathers organizational feedback into consolidated review rounds, so decisions stay clear and efficient.
About Common Thread
A boutique practice with delivery experience behind it.
Common Thread Learning is a small practice built on more than a decade of teaching, curriculum development and program leadership. We work across education and youth programming, arts and community organizations, workplace and staff development, construction and skilled trades, safety and onboarding training, and e-learning and blended learning.
Read more about usStarting a conversation
If you have an educational idea that needs structure, a program that has outgrown its original design, or learning experiences that need to connect more clearly, send a short description and we will recommend a starting point.
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