Student Benefits and Recognition:

  • Students engage in specialized learning in their schools and communities with a focus on identifying potential career pathways (college, university, apprenticeship, or labour market) and aligning their education goals withe their interests and skills.
  • Post-secondary and sector partners collaborate with schools to provide opportunities for students to develop essential skills and work habits, and earn certificates which are recognized by a particular economic sector.
  • The ADP allows students to participate in career-relevant learning experiences, create links between education and career applications, explore potential occupations and post-secondary opportunities, learn from mentors in the community, and develop employability skills, such as communication, problem solving, and team work skills.

School Involvement and Academy Diploma Programs:

There are seven high schools across Prince Edward Island offering the ADP and there are nine active programs.

Bluefield High   
  • Arts & Culture ADP
Colonel Gray   
  • Business & Innovation ADP
Kinkora Regional High  
  • Agriculture & Bioscience ADP
Kensington Intermediate High (KISH)
  • ​Travel & Tourism
  • Agriculture & Bioscience
​Three Oaks Senior High (TOSH)
  • Aerospace & Aviation 
  • Marine Biology
​Souris Regional ​ 
  • Business & Innovation,  Health & Wellness
Montague Regional High
  • Culinary Arts

Community and Sector Partners:

Community and sector partners play and important role by providing community based learning to students.
Community based learning experiences add weight to the curriculum by showing how classroom learning is applied to real world situations, exposing students to a variety of career options. Students benefit from the expertise and resources that business, entrepreneurs, families, industry, and organizations can provide.

Benefits for Employers:
  • Develops supervisory skills in currant employees
  • Participates in the education of today's youth
  • Encourages students to pursue future education and/or employment in your sector
  • Mentors motivated students who are willing to learn and take on new tasks
  • Establishes a connection between industry professionals and the education system

Benefits for Community:
  • Strengthens partnerships between community and the education system
  • Generates an atmosphere of collaboration
  • Helps build and strengthen our future economy

Benefits for Schools/Students:
  • Increases the learning opportunities for students
  • Provides connection to new and innovative techniques and technology
  • Enhances the proficiency to meet the needs of diverse students
  • Presents opportunities for individualized education
  • Improves education and community communications
  • Provides opportunities for sector-based professional learning for teacher