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Japan, Kobe
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CA supports Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) through the Student Services department, which uses a multidisciplinary, team-based approach to address each student's social-emotional needs and to develop adaptive learning skills, with counseling helping students understand perseverance, their emotions, goals, and conflict resolution.
Learning Support and English as an Additional Language are provided as part of CA's inclusive Student Support Services, focusing on differentiated and inclusive strategies to support all learners; CA describes itself as an inclusive learning community and does not identify itself as a specialist SEN institution.
EAL support is provided in-class as part of CA's EAL Program, led by an EAL coordinator, with daily in-class support integrated into core activities such as Unit of Inquiry, Writer's Workshop, and Reader's Workshop; elementary EAL efforts are described as in-class rather than pull-out.
Mental wellbeing is supported through Counseling as part of Student Services, with a counseling team addressing perseverance, emotions, and conflict resolution; in boarding, Head of Residential Life, dorm parents, and a dorm nurse monitor well-being and coordinate care.
Canadian Academy has a Child Safeguarding Policy that is reviewed annually; all staff and outside contractors in teaching or supervisory roles receive safeguarding training, and a designated Child Safeguarding Team oversees implementation.
Canadian Academy is a PreK–Grade 12 international day and boarding school in Kobe, Japan. THe school was founded in 1913 and is located on Rokko Island. The school offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) continuum from Pre-K through Grade 12, including the Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma programmes. Early Childhood includes programmes for 3 and 4-year-olds, with literacy and numeracy introduced in age-appropriate ways, as well as specialist classes that can include Japanese. Beyond classes, students can join activities such as Robotics Club, Model United Nations, science clubs and publications, alongside service clubs. For boarding, the school describes a programme for about 40 high school students from over 20 countries, studying in English while living in Japan.
