• Students learn by having experiences and doing things.

• Students understand how traditional disciplines (math, English, science, history) are connected. The curriculum is designed around cross-curricular themes, skills, problems, and questions.

• Students become innovators — they come up with new ideas and put them into practice.

• Students learn to ask specific questions, solve challenging problems, analyze in rigorous detail, and think from an objective, critical point of view.

• Students are encouraged to understand and learn how to take action.

• Students collaborate with one another.

• Students value democracy.

• Students have different learning goals according to their different learning needs.

• Students learn individually, in pairs, and in groups.

• Students learn skills that will be needed in future society.

• Students learn by serving the local community.

• Students learn using varied learning resources.

• Students are assessed in a variety of different ways, including projects and productions.

• Students are prepared for life.

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