Frequently Asked Questions

Groups are intentionally small with 14 as the maximum per Destination Base. The on-site Guide supports the shared destination experience, while a remote Nomadica educator provides weekly educational touchpoints and competency-based feedback for each learner.

The Guide supports each learner by helping them connect shared Field Experiences to their own individual project. Before most Field Experiences, learners complete light pre-work to set an intention and connect the experience to their Exploration Question. During the experience, the Guide helps learners ask questions, observe, collect evidence, and make connections. On async work days, the Guide meets with learners 1:1 to check progress, support next steps, and help them work through challenges.

The on-site Guide supports the local rhythm of the Destination Base. They help learners prepare for Field Experiences, make connections during experiences, review feedback together, and stay on track during async work days. They also check in with learners 1:1 to support project progress, autonomy, and next steps.

The remote Nomadica educator holds the educational structure. They support weekly touchpoints, review learner Artifacts, provide competency-based feedback, and help make sure each learner's project connects to their Exploration Question, Future-Ready Skills, Final Creation, and Destination Portfolio. This is the person ensuring the learning is not just 'fun experiences' — but visible growth.

Parents remain important partners in the learning process — supporting logistics, safety, participation in Field Experiences, and the learner's home rhythm. Nomadica provides the structure, but families stay actively involved, especially on travel days, family-led experiences, and independent work time. Nomadica does not remove parents from the learning process. It gives families a clearer structure for turning real life into learning.

Field Experiences are real-world learning moments connected to the location — markets, museums, nature walks, hikes, cultural sites, community visits, interviews, creative workshops, local history, or everyday place-based experiences. The point is not just to 'go somewhere' — it is to help learners notice, question, connect, and create from the experience.

Async days are project work days. Learners may work on Connections, Artifacts, research, reflection, interviews, prototypes, writing, design work, or their Final Creation. The on-site Guide checks in with learners 1:1 to help them stay focused, problem-solve, and choose next steps. These days matter because learners need time to process, create, and struggle productively.

Future-Ready Skills are the transferable skills learners practise through real-world projects — including communication, collaboration, creative thinking, problem solving, information literacy, planning, self-direction, reflection, adaptability, and responsible technology use. Learners do not just 'learn about' these skills. They practise them in real situations.

Nomadica uses competency-based feedback rather than grades. Learners show growth through their Connections, Artifacts, reflections, project decisions, and Final Creation. The remote educator reviews evidence and gives feedback connected to Future-Ready Skills. Learners receive a Destination Summary with their Final Creation combined with a Destination Portfolio that displays their learning process and growth.

An Artifact is a meaningful piece of work that pulls together learning from multiple experiences or Connections. It might be a short written reflection, visual map, sketch, voice note, photo essay, prototype, interview summary, design idea, mini-podcast, research note, or creative response. Artifacts help learners show what they are noticing, thinking, questioning, and building.

The Destination Portfolio is the learner's collection of visible learning from that place. It shows the learner's Exploration Question, Field Experiences, Connections, Artifacts, Future-Ready Skill growth, reflections, feedback, and Final Creation. It gives families something stronger than 'we travelled and learned a lot' — it shows what actually happened.

The Final Creation is the learner's culminating project for the Destination Base. It grows out of their Exploration Question, Trails, Field Experiences, Artifacts, and personal interests. Examples might include a documentary, guidebook, prototype, exhibit, photo essay, podcast, zine, design solution, map, campaign, model, story collection, or community proposal.

No. Learners share a common Destination Base and Location-Based Question, but each learner develops their own project pathway. One might focus on food systems, another on architecture, another on wildlife, tourism, climate, storytelling, design, history, or community life. The shared place connects the group — the individual project keeps the learning personal.

Nomadica provides a structured learning pathway, but it is not a traditional curriculum. It gives learners a Destination Base, Location-Based Question, Field Experiences, project structure, reflection prompts, Artifact creation, Future-Ready Skill development, and portfolio feedback. Families who need specific curriculum coverage can use Nomadica alongside their chosen homeschool or school program.

That depends on the family's country, state, school, or homeschool requirements. Nomadica provides evidence of learning, project documentation, reflections, and competency-based feedback. Families are responsible for checking how this fits with their legal or school requirements.

Travelling can be full of learning, but much of that learning stays invisible. Nomadica helps learners turn travel experiences into inquiry, projects, skill growth, reflection, and portfolio evidence. It gives families a structure for making real-world learning intentional — without making it feel like traditional school.