A learner-centered approach shifts the primary focus from the teacher to the students, engaging them fully in the learning process, with the instructor playing the key role of facilitator. Methods includeactive learning, cooperative learning, and inquiry-based learning. 

Students learn to examine complex problems through an interdisciplinary lens, including their social, political, economic, cultural, environmental, and personal dimensions.

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Integrative learning is about making connections across courses; disciplines; diverse ideas and experiences; the curricular spectrum (curriculum, field work, and co-curriculum); theory and practice; classroom and community; and complex, interrelated issues. It reflects a student’s ability to synthesize learning and apply it to new contexts and problems. 

Immersive and experiential learning is contextual (often place-based), hands-on, holistic and composite, and iterative. It includes experiencing deeply, data-gathering, reflection, conceptualization, testing and experimentation, validation, application, and iteration. 

Instructional scaffolding is the process of providing students with appropriate supports, such as mentoring, coaching, templates) to promote effective learning. As the student develops knowledge, skills, and confidence, the supports are gradually removed or become more sophisticated to match the student’s evolving level. 

The guiding ethos is knowledge in service to society. Students work to translate theory to practice in and out of the classroom through developing their own social impact models and social ventures, independent research, social innovation sprints, immersive case studies, and other high-impact approaches

Self-regulated learning motivates and empowers students to take ownership over their education, maximize achievement, and pursue self-directed lifelong learning. Within the context of well-designed and facilitated curricula and educational opportunities, students are given opportunities to make meaningful choices, plan and set intentional goals, practice reflection and self-awareness, and assess their knowledge and skills, their own work, and that of their peers. 

Students participate as co-teachers in the classroom, become effective at giving and receiving respectful critique, leverage diverse perspectives and ideas, and work in teams on problems in ways that cultivate both positive interdependence and individual accountability.