WRAP offers an emotionally supportive, self-paced educational environment, which encourages youth to overcome academic failure and discover personal success. We have developed an educational approach that incorporates the following elements:

Low student to teacher ratio: Two instructors per 10 youth allow us to provide each student with individualized attention.

Project-based approach: Each of our classes takes the form of a project. While working on a project, students develop a variety of skills. We believe that the project approach provides a meaning and a context to the learning process. Projects explore topics that enhance school-based learning. The finished project for a class can be a magazine, a computer slide show, an oral presentation or a web site. All projects will incorporate technical skills, communication skills, art, math, reading, language, writing, history, science, creativity, and cooperation skills.

Flexibility: Because we are a community-based organization, we have the opportunity to explore issues that may not be a part of the standard school curriculum. Although we have learning objectives and lessons plans for all classes, we have the opportunity to explore issues that come up in the course of a class and to "deviate" from the curriculum when it is appropriate.