The student site includes a constantly growing catalogue of web links in categories such as English as a Second Language, grammar, writing, mathematics, literature, social studies and science. The teacher site contains links featuring lesson plans, discussions and a calendar of important events. The school district partners select the sites for the initiative, and learning center staff are school system employees. The dates in parentheses in the following descriptions indicate the year the Skills for Life program began operating at that site. For the remedial lab, students, primarily freshmen and sophomores, are selected on the basis of their language arts skills.
Students attend the lab one period a day, gaining on average two grade levels a year.
The lab serves 80-100 students a year. Students in the ESL lab are those enrolled in ESL courses in the schools. They attend the lab one period a day and receive a combination of the Learning System and traditional group ESL instruction. Students average gains of over 3 Student Performance Levels a year, as measured by the BEST tests. Most students attend the ESL lab for two years.