Students are assigned to learning houses where teachers work with them as a team. House faculty review individual student progress regularly. Intimate knowledge of student learning styles and close professional relationships between house faculty and students develop as students work with the same core team for four years. Our second organizational principle concerns student performance.
Students work to gain mastery of learning at their own pace.
Students graduate when they have completed their course work and can demonstrate mastery of important skills by presenting and defending their best work in a series of graduation exhibitions. Finally, Everett Alternatives is a school of choice. Students give up the broad course offerings and extra curricular activities of a traditional school for this more personal, individualized approach.