Focus is on prevention and early intervention, providing students with positive options. Expectations throughout the school are that students will respect one another, work together. Each house includes students from all three grade levels. Most students remain in the same house during their three years at Lane, allowing students, parents and teachers to build strong relationships, know each other better. Students in Scorpio House are working to develop a curriculum around a microsociety.
Teachers teach as a team in each of the houses.
They develop projects that suit the needs and interests of the balanced group of students in each house. A daily planning period allows teachers and the house support specialists to plan and develop curriculum. Lane' s house system allows for greater flexibility than many traditional programs. Some houses offer cross-grade experiences, some classes have all students from the same grade, some students develop portfolios, etc. Lane's educational program emphasizes the basic skills, balanced with environmental learning.