Laytonville Unified School District schools, for instance, taught students and teachers from the other school districts how to create school gardens and vermiculture projects which stimulate ecological awareness, develop business acumen, and enhance community nutrition. Point Arena Joint Union High School District and Arena Union Elementary School Districts, which share one school board, have demonstrated how to guide students in scientific research about salmon and trout. Their expertise has been helpful to other schools setting up similar investigations. Anderson Valley Unified School District has been nationally recognized for its successful oral history program for seventh graders and has trained other teachers to set up similar programs in their own schools. Laytonville student instructing area resident in computer technology.
Students provide peer tutoring, sharing and critiquing each other's ideas and projects from afar.
Teachers have dramatically increased the circle of people they can turn to for advice and ideas. Students and teachers also use computers to create databases, to compile statistics and projections, to research, to create web pages, and to develop multi-media presentations. Through these means, these districts have found innovative ways of adapting computer technology to the daily educational needs their students, and this has had a synergistic impact on other County schools and communities. Laytonville second grade students have created a scale model of their town with the help of community members. Anderson Valley United School District, for example, has initiated a district-wide exploration of Mendocino County's water resources.