We use math manipulatives, puzzles, and logic problems to assist students with math problem solving skills. Some of the students need to work on more basic math concepts such as multiplying fractions, defining absolute values, manipulating negative and positive numbers, learning the orders of operation, and understanding probability. Other students are more skilled in their math abilities and require greater algebraic challenges to keep them from getting bored and to hone their skills. Since our classes tend to have students with a wide disparity of skill levels in them, some teachers use cooperative learning techniques effectively in this area. Our five to one student teacher ratio also helps keep students working at their own skill level in math. Our objectives continue to be focused on showing students who have had difficulty with this subject that mathematics can be fun (or at least, not drudgery) and to challenge students who bring stronger math abilities and skills to the program. Math is the one area where we group students by ability to better focus our instructional program.

LEEP students are encouraged to write. Students read several short stories from an anthology called A Walk In My World in their English classes. These short stories are written by authors from around the world and students are encouraged to discuss the stories and relate them to their own lives. Students sometimes imitate the author's style of writing in order to show them how style affects the ways that literature communicates the author's message. Fast writes, journals, and a variety of other techniques are used to encourage students to analyze literature and communicate by developing their prose.

Usually students are all equally ignorant about the earth’s geography, whether they are B+ or C- students. We offer geography not just to teach students about the world. Our geography curriculum teaches students that they can learn far more than they think in a short period of time. Geography is difficult but we provide the students several opportunities to succeed at it; we are more concerned about having them understand how much they can learn rather than demonstrate how well they do on any one test. Geography has been a very effective strategy to teach LEEP objectives and build self-esteem in the students. Geography is so effective, faculty have made passage of the geography test a requisite for graduation.