Advantage Schools use Direct Instruction Strategies for teacher-led classrooms. Physical fitness is also part of the school design. Over one hundred DI lesson plans have been scripted, giving clear wording for teacher instruction and student responses.
Teachers use a set of hand signals to guide their students through lessons.
Advantage schools aim to meet or exceed the state or local curriculum standards for individual schools. Under the Direct Instruction curriculum, students are actively assessed on their mastery of knowledge and skills each week , in either oral or written form. This mastery-based approach to assessment ensures that students gain competence before they proceed to new material. New students are initially grouped into appropriate grade levels according to their age and previous grade level. As mastery of materials is demonstrated, students will change groups, facilitating an individualized pace for each student.