A literacy-based education involves multiple on-going opportunities for reading, writing, and thinking in an environment responsive to individual needs and abilities.  Such an environment is committed to providing opportunities for:

• Student choice and support in exploration of individual and group interests.
• Constructive and specific feedback that encourages, challenges, and fosters the reading, writing, and thinking processes.
• Time for respectful dialogue with others, reflection, and revision.
• Access to a wide variety of literature.
• Publication and sharing of writing.
• Developing twenty-first century skills.