All students are grouped into families with some in multi-age classrooms. Teachers use alternative assessment, including portfolios.
Instruction is child-centered and developmentally appropriate.
There is a strong parental involvement component. The automated library offers a connection to the world through the Internet as well as many CD-ROMS for student and teacher use. A kitchen provides a unique classroom for all students and many kinds of activities. Through inclusion, manystudents interact and learn with special education students. Staff members and administrators alike eagerly study and apply new techniques in a quest for the best possible ways to teach.