Students engage in cooperative learning activities that help develop their abilities to make decisions and work together as a group, while recognizing the different opinions, skills, and needs of individual group members.

   Students learn in multi-age classrooms, providing older students the chance to help younger students in their learning process.

   Recess is an unstructured time for children to interact with each other, allowing them to choose their activities and playmates.

   Students are taught how to utilize a conflict resolution process as a means of working out the differences that may arise through their daily interactions.