This qualitative study of a high school using intensive education shows how teaching and learning were improved when teachers taught and students attended one class daily for 6 weeks. Intensive education is an alternative scheduling and organizational format that reduces class size and extends class length by having teachers and students in one class all morning studying one subject for 30 days. Afternoons can be devoted to art, music, and physical education. The study took place at the Brass Apple Military Academy, a private school for boys, operating in the Southeastern United States and using intensive education for over 30 years. Data were collected during an extended site-visit through teacher and administrator interviews; observation; and document and artifact analysis. The study found that under intensive education at the Brass Apple there were more opportunities for student-teacher interaction which enhanced teacher-student relations and student success in the classroom and promoted teacher satisfaction. The format also allowed teachers to have a deeper influence on students, and students to have more chance for individual expression resulting in positive emotional involvement and development. Teachers' collegial and collaborative interaction was less clearly structured, though individual teacher did have opportunities for continuing education outside Brass Apple. Question formats and a figure, "Work Place" are included. (Contains 32 references.) (JB)