Our Program
Our Mission
To ensure our students a unique educational program that best positions them to be global citizens and leaders for the 21st century. While creating strong academic achievement in our students, we engage them in an extensive experiential education program of rigorous maritime endeavor, close-knit communal living, study in foreign lands, and personal mentoring that cultivates their self-knowledge, resilience, grit, problem-solving, and leadership far beyond that of a more traditional school setting.
Through the My Five to Global Leadership philosophy, A+ World Academy provides a lifechanging program that develops confident leaders with real world experience and a global perspective. Our school is unique and thus uniquely challenging to describe, but these five domains help clarify what we do and what we believe.
Honor Code
A+ World Academy students are honorable truth seeking, and always strive to do what is right no matter the difficulty. They respect the property of others, intellectual and physical. They do not steal. They do not lie nor intend deceit. If they err and violate the code, they show great integrity in admitting their mistake and accepting all consequences. They understand that the journey is just as important as the destination and will work to reach all destinations as persons of honor.
Curriculum and
Learning
Sailtraining
All students learn basic seamanship skills during their year with A+ World Academy. If a student would like to continue improving their seamanship skills, then the maritime crew is more than happy to help them develop their skills through additional lessons and mentorship.
Service Learning
S3 is a personal growth and development course specifically designed for A+ World Academy students, with the goal of providing them the tools needed to not only successfully navigate the program but life afterwards. Throughout the course, students will work to gain greater self-awareness and develop their self-leadership skills in order to become effective leaders and civically engaged global citizens.
Enriching Port Experiences
Each port is planned to facilitate and promote meaningful field experiences that make the most out of the ports visited and enhance the content being covered in courses. Activities vary greatly from port to port, but some examples from past years include visits to sugar plantations, marine laboratories, classical concerts and operas, museums, and culturally focused camping.
Student Journey
Perfect match
At A+ World Academy, we follow a rigorous, internationally recognized curriculum accredited by the Middle States Association (MSA). This ensures that students from different educational systems around the world can seamlessly integrate their year at sea with their home curriculum.
Students continue their academic studies while traveling, earning fully accredited grades in core subjects such as mathematics, science, languages, and social studies. Because our accreditation meets international standards, most schools recognize and transfer the academic credits earned during the year.
