Course planning occurs at two levels: the course, and the entire program.

At the course level, specific lessons are tailored to student learning styles and interests.

At the program level, the planning takes into consideration student goals and areas for growth as well as continuing to incorporate learning preferences and interests.

Educational Facilitators and academic counselors carefully work with each student and family in the course planning process.

Learning Styles
Upon enrollment, students take a learning styles inventory to measure how they learn best. Individual courses and the overall program can then be tailored to match those learning styles.

College & Career Goals
A student's college and career goals need to be carefully considered when selecting what courses to take. These goals can also be incorporated into tailoring the individual lessons in a course; for example, a class project can be focused on something related to the student's career interests.

Personal Interests
A student might wish to take a class just because it sounds interesting, and this is encouraged both for the personal enrichment it affords and because many careers start with this type of exploration. Also, individual lessons within a course can be modified to match with a student's interests, making the learning process more enjoyable; this can also facilitate student learning since the student is connecting new learning to current knowledge - knowledge that the student holds with great interest.

Areas for Growth
Courses should be carefully sequenced and aligned to student strengths while developing areas for growth. For example, you can engage in courses that require you to develop skills, such as keyboarding, and you probably wouldn't want to take a course that requires you to type up several long papers until you developed those keyboarding skills.