Step 1: Identify a fully-integrated body of core knowledge and skills that all students will be expected to master.
Step 2: Organize teaching around the best current knowledge about how teaching and learning actually happen.
Step 3: Teach students through to mastery
Step 4: Transition students to traditional four-year colleges to complete the last two years of their degrees
Step 5: Conduct educational research on student progress; revise program in terms of results
We are open to revising our mission and vision based on input from new key players.
Step 2: Organize teaching around the best current knowledge about how teaching and learning actually happen.
- Learning by planning and executing projects
- Interdisciplinary curriculum
- Teaching organized around principles (rather than around fragmented facts and information)
- Reading, writing and numeracy across the curriculum
- A mentor for every student
- Full-day instruction and support
- Moral, social and organizational instruction to cultivate the whole student
Step 3: Teach students through to mastery
Step 4: Transition students to traditional four-year colleges to complete the last two years of their degrees
Step 5: Conduct educational research on student progress; revise program in terms of results
We are open to revising our mission and vision based on input from new key players.