We want everything to be hands-on. The curriculum should be alive for the students, instead of flat ... They are challenged, but they're able to express themselves and think outside of the box and really understand topics in depth.

Everything here is natural. We don't have any plastic toys or fake dolls. Our students knit their own dolls, and we're growing grass in our Easter baskets, instead of buying the plastic grass.

The one thing we always see our students walk away with is confidence and a sense of self. We want our students to not be afraid to be themselves, but at the same time, to respect others and respect life.

By focusing on more rigorous curriculum, we'll get students with better test scores.

We're finding that students are able to meet many state standards, curriculum standards and our school standards with this project.

The task force feels as though the curriculum should give students an option for a variety of courses, including those that were closed off to students from other colleges in the past. We don't think any campus, except Douglass, should really be built around one theme.