In the past few decades, a great deal of research and many theories have been developed to explain how students learn.  This is a growing area of research to help answer the questions about why students can achieve more in response to some teaching styles than others. Since its founding, The Leelanau School has offered rigorous college preparatory curriculum delivered in a magnificent setting and has educated students with an appreciation for each student’s unique learning styles. Looking back through historic documents and our archives, in The Leelanau School’s first several decades, teaching for unique learning styles was based on the Beal’s and Huey’s approach which included work programs, and investigatory methods.  Later decades involved teaching styles that were more typical of a traditional college-prep lecture-style, but the natural setting as a learning laboratory was a well-used enhancement. In recent years, The Leelanau School’s educational philosophy integrated theories of multiple intelligences and the understanding of students having various...