Key aspects of the Act included more emphasis on developing partnerships between school districts and local agencies and business, as well as development of curricula for at least six broad occupational categories that students could choose to pursue to achieve the Certificate of Advanced Mastery needed to graduate. One of the six occupational categories identified in the Act is Natural Resources. Over the past three years the partnership has evolved from a loosely organized collection of agency and volunteer group representatives to a more formal organization with a coordinator and both educational and technical committees. Meetings are held monthly with attendance by representatives of member agencies, groups, teachers and students. Notes of the meetings are kept and distributed to members.
Meetings are a combination of general information sharing and business.
Students rotate through a series of nine to ten stations sponsored by local agencies. At these stations they learn about the local fishery resource and watershed and riparian concepts. Example of stations include Native American storytelling inside the salmon tent, costume parades, fish arts and crafts and the salmon life cycle game. Each classroom also has to provide one parent for every five students attending. This provides a great opportunity to educate adults as well as kids.