The next quarter, the doctors' students tutored elementary school students in math and science. They also taught a course for younger students based on what they had learned from the doctors. College credits can be applied simultaneously toward college and high school degrees. One Middle College High School student will soon receive her associate's degree in culinary arts while still in high school. Each quarter, teachers in every department have two days of joint planning time during which they integrate subjects.
Teachers are responsible for researching curriculum development in their own subject area.
Each pair then plans instruction for the two-hour integrated blocks, including developing curriculum and materials. No MCHS teacher uses textbooks. For example, in humanities a group might study the Civil War and Reconstruction. Students explore the political, historical, and economic aspects of abolition and slavery, and then read speeches and a novel from the period. As an evaluation, students are asked to incorporate all the concepts into an analysis of the novel.