The children learn to use less paper and are given time to complete drafts and turn them in on computer disk. At the upper grades, class projects are often done in video format, using a variety of multi-media software and hardware. All resource teachers and the principal become team teachers during the majority of their day. This effectively lowers class size. The teachers cut down on unnecessary meetings and the paperwork burden by daily tapping into their individual telecommunications links to the school and district office.
All attendance is handled electronically.
In the first ten minutes of school, children from the upper grades enter all data on absences and lunch counts and automatically send this information to the school office. The secretary, freed from many of the tasks traditionally assigned, takes time to assist many children who come to school needing a little bit of extra special attention. Print media is still a feature of Rainbow School - but no textbooks are purchased. Instead, the school and classroom libraries grow to support a wide variety of source material in every subject area. Since the school believes so firmly in the child's ability to learn from solving problems, the instruction shifts from daily increments of a standard, inflexible curriculum to a series of projects, productions, and performances.