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- Immersive & Experiential High School program- Cortes Island, BC - Klahoose, Tla’amin & Homalco Territories
This week, students of the Cortes Island Academy l This week, students of the Cortes Island Academy launched back into podcasting. This is the third and final podcasting deep dive of the 2025/26 semester, and culminates with each student producing a complete, feature-length journalistic podcast — interviewed, researched, and edited from start to finish — and then airing it for the world to hear, on Cortes Community Radio, 89.5FM, and worldwide online www.cktz.ca Stay posted for an opportunity to come listen to a selection of these podcasts LIVE at Cortes Island Academy HQ next Friday!
It’s a surprise! Join Cortes Island Academy’s 2026 It’s a surprise! Join Cortes Island Academy’s 2026/27 year.
Throwback to December’s bread making workshop. Tha Throwback to December’s bread making workshop. Thank you Kris and @hollyhocklife for hosting the CIA students in the kitchen to learn the art of bread making.
An excerpt from Jasmine’s message in a bottle podc An excerpt from Jasmine’s message in a bottle podcast. Listen to the full podcast, link in bio! Stay tuned for more student work!
Words from our student’s message in a bottle podca Words from our student’s message in a bottle podcasts— listen to the full podcasts, link in bio!
Whose voices shape environmental decisions? Throug Whose voices shape environmental decisions? Through a stakeholder conference, students stepped into decision-making roles to understand power, compromise, and collaboration in resource management.
WHO DUNNIT? 🔎Last night’s themed murder-mystery pa WHO DUNNIT? 🔎Last night’s themed murder-mystery party had student’s cracking clues, chasing suspects, and piecing together the story…
This week, the students of the Academy rolled up t This week, the students of the Academy rolled up their sleeves for the second podcasting deep dive with instructors Manda Aufochs-Gillespie and Immanuel McKenty. During this block each student plans out, researches, scripts and produces a feature length journalistic podcast. 🎤 🎧 Students researched chosen topics, interviewed experts, edited their audio together, layered in background music, created intro and outros, and finally, shared their finished work! All of the podcasts will be playing on Cortes Community Radio, 89.5FM, CKTZ, and posted on the Cortes Island Academy website. Stay tuned! Students also learned about narrative structure, the many (sometimes challenging!) stages of a creative project, interviewed award-winning author Ruth Ozeki about her book A Tale for the Time Being, and celebrated three of the students birthdays! 🎈 🎉
A few weeks ago we got a weather window to complet A few weeks ago we got a weather window to complete our wild clay masks with Tianna and pitfire them at Mansons Lagoon! Taking two firings, we had another excellent survival rate, made s’mores, talked about social practice, solutions of storytelling, and stayed warm (enough)! 🔥🪵
Words from our student’s audio message in the bott Words from our student’s audio message in the bottle. To listen to the full podcasts, check out our website (link in bio!).
Students are diving into a week long podcasting wo Students are diving into a week long podcasting workshop. Students will learn the basics of journalistic podcasting—honing their interview and audio editing skills. Stay tuned for the results! 🎙📣
In the science course, students are exploring the In the science course, students are exploring the complexity of life - examining ecosystem dynamics, relationships, and the many ways humans fit into this web, both positively and negatively. They’re also considering the principle of reciprocity: how we can build more respectful and balanced relationships with nature, guided by the teachings of Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
Students are reading A Tale for the Time Being by Students are reading A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, a story that echoes themes from our other reading, Is a River Alive?, and connects to our semester’s central theme- water. Through this novel, students are exploring ideas of time, interconnectedness, and the ways water links stories, places, and lives across the planet.
Another audio message in the bottle snippet made b Another audio message in the bottle snippet made by our students! To listen to the full podcasts, check out our website (link in bio!). Students learned about biosonification and sound design with @rubysingh_ to create these audio messages.
Have you walked the School to Sea trail and seen t Have you walked the School to Sea trail and seen the ʔayʔaǰuθəm (ayajuthem) plant signs? A few years ago, CIA students made them with Klahoose elder, Jessie Louie! Thank you Jessie for this amazing contribution to the school trail.
Remember that warm September weather when class wa Remember that warm September weather when class was always outside? Don't worry, it'll come back! Looking forward to another class kayaking trip next fall.
This year, students are reading Robert Macfarlane’ This year, students are reading Robert Macfarlane’s Is a River Alive?-- A book that invites us to reconsider our relationship with nature and ask whether a river can be more than a resource, but a living being with its own voice and rights. Students have been engaging in thoughtful discussions, asking big questions, and exploring the idea of more-than-human rights.
Students created audio messages in a bottle — stor Students created audio messages in a bottle — stories crafted using sounds of the forest and sea. Listen to the full podcast on our website (link in bio) and stay tuned for more snippets of student storytelling and sound design! Thanks @rubysingh_ for teaching us!
Last week was spent on Read Island! Exploring bogs Last week was spent on Read Island! Exploring bogs, learning how to navigate with a compass, harvesting chanterelles, learning to start a fire with flint and steel, many hikes, learning about off grid energy, and playing games with the local kids! It was a blast. Thank you to the Surge Narrows community association, Sheila, Scott, Renate, Suzanne, and Ralph for hosting, transporting and feeding us!
In art this week, our class spent a day in the for In art this week, our class spent a day in the forest, learning about spaces - physical, political, ephemeral - then created Andy Goldsworthy inspired sculptures by the lake. Afterwards, we enjoyed fresh wild mushroom soup along with fruitful art history discussions.
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