Cortes Island Academy (CIA) is a place based high school program providing access to high quality education for rural, remote and marginalized students from Cortes Island and surrounding areas. This program is a partnership between School District 72 and the CIA Society. CIA’s immersive, experiential, and out of the box curriculum dives deep into subjects while learning aside experts in the field. In the project based classes, students have produced journalistic podcasts, place based field guides, people’s history posters, and biographical films. Check out CortesIslandAcademy.ca to view student work, testimonials and much more!

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