The Institute of Agribusiness Leaders is a small learning community within Heritage High school. Designed as a four-year high school program, the Academy has an open and equitable student recruitment process that results in a student body that reflects the demographics of the community. However, students must be assigned to Heritage as their base school in order to apply. Once accepted into the program, students remain together in a select group of classes throughout their high school years with a core group of specially trained teachers. (Note: They are not in all eight classes together, only one to three of their courses each year) The Academy model provides an environment for these teachers to develop interdisciplinary activities that makes learning relevant and captures the interest of students. Through real-world, hands-on experiences, the Academy exposes students to careers within STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
The Institute of Agribusiness Leaders at Heritage High School started in the Fall of 2018 and is one of Career Academies in the Wake County Public School System.
The Mission of WCPSS Career Academies is to empower a diverse group of students to become collaborative leaders in a global community.
Vision 2022: Wake County Public School Career Academies consist of an inclusive, diverse group of future leaders that makes a global difference to fill the skills gap and develop a talent pipeline. WCPSS Career academies include high-tech classrooms and collaborative work-spaces with cutting edge technology that expose students to real world situations. Local, state, national, and worldwide business, industry, and government agencies commit, support, and sponsor career academies through consistent partnerships that provide the foundation of our programs.
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