As the group began to articulate their vision for a school to which they would be proud to send their own children and grandchildren, the concept for The Project School was born.

The Project School will manifest in two schools in two very unique settings. The Bloomington Project School will open in the fall of 2009 (offering kindergarten through fifth grade), and The Indianapolis Project School will open in the fall of 2008 (offering kindergarten through third grade). Each school has a long-term vision to provide a preschool through eighth-grade learning experience. The founding group has also incorporated a foundation, The School Project Incorporated, which will provide support to the two founding schools. The foundation will create a Project School replication plan with a vision to reform pre-service teacher education.

The Project School is a K-8 teacher designed model focused on developing positive habits of the Heart, Mind, and Voice through problem, place, project-based (the P³ Framework) curriculum.  Through P³ Projects, students identify real issues in their communities and utilize community assets to address those issues.  The Project School utilizes multiage teaming and discipline-based literacy and numeracy workshops, to scaffold the skills students need to engage in highly authentic and integrated P³ Projects.  Project School students engage in critical, creative, and reflective thinking, thus developing their intellectual character.   The Project School is committed to teaching the whole child and developing socially conscious citizens who are able to both collaborate well and lead others while contributing to the greater good.
 
The Project School is the culmination of a year’s worth of intense dialogue, research, and synthesis, and countless hours of intellectual work. The school’s founding group members have well over 100 years of collective experience in classrooms, schools, and districts across the state and the country