In July of 1999, Cabrillo College began a yearlong exploration of the Learner Outcomes teaching model. We hoped this new instructional approach would provide us with tools to work with an increasingly diverse student population, many of whom are lacking in basic skills and are unprepared for college academic work. These "millennial" students possess a broad range of learning styles, shorter attention spans and a preference for active learning and performance-based courses. Would the learner outcomes model provide us with teaching strategies to reach these students? Would we be able to raise their level of competency in specific courses? Would our success and retention rates improve using this model? We have spent a year trying to answer these questions. This handbook contains the initial results.