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In the last few decades, the Bahamian stone crab fishery has grown into an emerging commercial fishery. With exports of stone crabs claws valued over an estimated $3 million, it is now…
Catherine Argyrople is preparing for her movie debut. Our alumni are always inspiring us with the incredible things they go on to do after their Island School experience. Catherine Argyrople…
Friendship can be found in the most unlikely places. One of the treasures of The Island School is the way in which students from all different backgrounds come together and…
So you just returned home after spending a semester away and you’re trying to settle back into your “home” routine? Students and families often ask, how do we make the…
The Island School’s Cape Eleuthera Institute (CEI) is thrilled to introduce a crawfish aquaculture program designed to restock wild populations and pioneer the rearing of crawfish to marketable size. This…
July 14th, 2013 “I’m sitting on a tarp on a stretch of beach that no one else will enter for 24 hours. The horizon is gray and blurry; I can’t…
Whether seeking to better understand experiential and place-based teaching and learning at The Island School or searching for a rejuvenating professional development experience, individuals attend our annual Educators Conference for…
The Island School has been part of Megan Sweeting’s DCMS11, life for as long as she can remember. As a child, her mom was an employee of the School, and…
Twenty-two years have passed since Chevelle Dixon S01 first set foot on The Island School campus, but in 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic, Chevelle mentally transported herself…
This spring The Island School is thrilled to celebrate 10 years of partnership with Boys Hope Girls Hope of New York (BHGHNY). This partnership, established in Spring 2013 Semester at…
Scientists from The Island School’s Cape Eleuthera Institute are working to set up a new nursery facility for growing crawfish in South Eleuthera, and they want members of the community…
By Natalia Hurtado (The Island School & Perry Institute for Marine Science) If you’ve ever been diving, snorkeling or spear fishing on a coral reef, you probably noticed corals that…
BAHAMIAN SPINY LOBSTER FISHERY Have you ever eaten a lobster tail at a restaurant like Red Lobster? If so, most likely, you have eaten a Caribbean spiny lobster tail. These…
Students in The Island School Semester participate in a research class, assisting our professional Research Staff with ongoing projects and data collection for a term. Each research class published a…
Ground-breaking research on the stone crab fishery in The Bahamas has identified an alternative method for claw removal that increases the chances of stone crab survival by nearly 30% once…
Shicardo Knowles was raised in Deep Creek, Eleuthera. This past summer, he completed a six-week Summer Apprenticeship with The Island School in the Communications department. Over the course of the…
Sustainable waste management at the Island School begins inside the Tingum Center. The open-air storage bay is home to glass bottles, tin cans, warped cardboard, and other discarded articles. The majority of these items, in keeping with our environmental ethos, will be reused or repurposed into new, useful materials.
By Bronwyn Esterhuizen, Research Scientist On the north coast of the southwestern peninsula in Eleuthera, it’s hard to tell where land ends and sea begins. Mangroves and creek systems extend…
About the Writer: Jade Knowles, a 2017 Deep Creek Middle School alumna, spent her summer working as a Climate Change Research Apprentice at The Island School. She is from Nassau,…
For the second year in a row, we saw one of our ELC students matriculate to the Deep Creek Middle School. It’s exciting to see the learning progression offered at The Island School extending into the elementary years and shaping the way in which we can engage with the environment, develop lifelong skills and tackle real world problems at all stages of the journey.
We are thrilled by the growth–and more importantly the outcomes–we’ve seen in our Deep Creek Middle School students since its inception, and eager to celebrate this impressive 20-year milestone with our many alumni, friends, and supporters over the years.
Imagine the pure zeal of the first day of school for every child after nearly two years of online learning! This visualization captures the energy of the students at Deep Creek Primary School the week of January 24, 2022, when schools in The Bahamas were permitted to resume face to face instruction. Despite the many global challenges faced by the COVID-19 pandemic including learning, the Deep Creek Primary School and The Island School partnership feels stronger than ever, and it is slated to be a strong finish to the academic year with all hands and resources on deck.
“We all have something to learn from each other. While learning more about the ecology of these animals is crucial for their conservation, really understanding the importance of the fishery in the community context is equally as important. Events like Crab Fest are a great way to better grasp the significance of these animals from the stakeholder perspective.”
A spirit of camaraderie permeated the Cotton Bay Beach clean up as The Island School community including Deep Creek Middle School and Early Learning Center students and staff, research staff from the Cape Eleuthera Institute and Ben Dougherty, CEO and Head of Schools worked side by side to keep our beautiful beaches clean. Clean Beaches Eleuthera reported that as a result of our combined efforts, in just two hours, we removed 395 pounds of trash from Cotton Bay Beach.