On Friday Nov 4 high school students from the Cortes Island Academy (CortesIslandAcademy.ca) joines Folk U host Manda Aufochs Gillespie in a teen takeover of Folk U featuring their favourite songs of the day and a bit of commentary.
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Editor’s note: the Miranda Cross mentioned in this article is a Cortes Island resident and Project Manager for the Dillon Creek Wetlands Restoration project.
Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Quadra Elementary’s kindergarten students tried their best to follow instructions and stay seated on tarps that were spread out on the school field in an attempt to keep them clean.
But the lucky kids near the edges of the blue plastic matting already had their hands in the dirt.
The 60-plus children recently gathered with members of the We Wai Kai Nation, Quadra Island school and community leaders and the B.C. Wildlife Federation to celebrate their new wetland restoration project by planting a selection of native trees and shrubs.
Continue reading Rewilding a school wetland is a lesson in climate resilience
A tiny education program on Cortes has been getting a lot of media attention lately.
“We were featured on the National Observer with our local journalism initiative reporter, Rochelle Baker. She did a fabulous piece on this program that was picked up by the Vancouver Sun and then was picked up by some Vancouver radio stations and by the CBC. So as nearby as Cortes Currents and as now far away as the reach of CBC,” explained Manda Aufochs Gillespie, one of the organizers of the Cortes Island Academy.
Continue reading Why media like the Cortes Island Academy
Press release from the Campbell River & District Chamber of Commerce
The Campbell River & District Chamber of Commerce, The Campbell River Mirror and the Tidemark Theatre Society co-hosted a series of debates for all candidates vying for office in the Strathcona Regional District and the City of Campbell River in the BC Municipal Election on October 15, 2022.
Continue reading All Candidate debates in Campbell River and SRD Rural Areas.
By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
Students and instructors are happy with the first semester of a pilot program for senior high school students on Cortes Island. The Cortes Island Academy is the brainchild of parents on the island, where teenagers in grades 10, 11 and 12 had to either be homeschooled or leave to complete their high school education prior to this school year.
The Academy launched this past September. The school year is based on a semester system consisting of four blocks, each lasting four to five weeks: Outdoor Adventure & Leadership; Marine Ecology; Creative Tools For Truth Telling; and Film Making.
Continue reading Students, instructors enthusiastic about early stages of Cortes Island Academy pilot program
