During the Finding the Good semester, students and faculty will travel to different communities as both seekers and delegates – seeking out models of sustainable practice that are already in place out in the world, and teaching/modeling sustainable living themselves. Students and teachers look for three main components in the target community:

1. •Finding The Good - Identify living examples of what people are doing in the areas of shelter, transportation, energy, food (growing, distributing, preparing), culture, and environmental conservation/ restoration, that is sustainable and life supporting. Once identified, these models will be profiled through film and radio documentaries.
   

2. •Doing Good - Organize a service project that will involve the community and meet a community need – something that needs to be cleaned up, fixed up, restored or created.
   

3. •Sharing The Good - Develop relationships with schools in the targeted community, thus learning with others.
   

Life and learning are not separate. Writing skills will be practiced, improved, polished and put out into the world for professional use. Research skills will be put to the test, practiced and improved. Reading requirements are rigorous. Public speaking is a given, and students will receive coaching and training in personal presentation and professional demeanor as well as in-life opportunities to speak in front of groups large and small.

Technology skills include computer graphics, digital videography and photography, database development, web design, word-processing, digital audio recording. Students make real films, real radio programs, and real podcasts that are viewed by real people. The knowledge that is needed to create well-rounded and complete educational materials and presentations will be acquired: in history, culture, science, math – all in the service of the practical, real life application. We will not try to make our curriculum fit the standards, but we will certainly use the standards in our curriculum -- where applicable, relevant, and useful.