Canterbury Academy Experiential Learning for Complex Educational Needs

Canterbury Academy enjoys multiple classroom sites across the region in Seattle, on Bainbridge Island, and on the Olympic Peninsula. We cultivate collaborative relationships with content experts and multiple Northwest, Canadian and international learning communities, so we also regularly establish classrooms in Vancouver and Whistler British Columbia, Canada; Bend and Portland Oregon; and the wilds of the mountains, beaches and streams across the Northwest.

Great students often need performance enhancement and promotion of their most passionate individual interests. Our students have constant access to utilize many wonderful outdoor/environmental resources, arts, culture, diversity and academic institutions that Seattle, the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada can offer.

Canterbury Academy believes that social, emotional and performance pragmatics are paramount to creating a strong foundation for personal well-being, success and excellence. While rigorous academic study occurs in the classroom, our campus is not confined to the classroom setting. A thirst for adventure sends us traveling across the region in search of new experiences and applied learning opportunities. Field experience and applied learning bring depth and sophistication to our student’s thinking.

Our teachers and instructors are approachable and creative. They flex to meet our students’ needs. Canterbury teachers present students with rich content to meet their intellectual needs and challenge them to think deeper.

Canterbury Academy is a special niche for a unique, intellectually curious and complex student. Our students are adult mentored and part of an adult facilitated peer group which forms a positive peer culture and is the basis for interaction, academics and social skill enhancement. It serves as a template from which our students can acquire, learn, practice and strengthen their social, emotional and intellectual skills.