Matanzas High School is the home of the Pirates, so it's only natural they have a plank on campus.

Only here, PLANK stands for “Pirates Learning and Acquiring New Knowledge.”

It's an innovative classroom providing students with various ways to work together.

Christine Brink, a teacher at Matanzas, said this is simply where we're at as a society now. “We're meeting online, we're chatting, we're Skyping. We're connecting and this is about connecting students to problem-solve.”

You won't find rows of desks here.

Instead, small group work is encouraged in various spaces, all connecting the students' laptops to the web.

Flagler County's school district was the first in the state to issue laptop computers to all high school students. Last year, they expanded the tablet and laptop program all the way down to fifth graders. Next year, they will be the first Florida school district to provide that to every student in every grade.

Back in the PLANK, think Starbucks without the smell of coffee wafting through the air.

Cristina Cabada, a ninth grader said the atmosphere is still "high school" but “you feel so much freer than in a classroom. We can do more work and it's more relaxed but at the same time you still have our requirements.”

Most of these ideas have been tried out in Flagler County's elementary and middle schools. But this is the first time all of these learning environments have been placed in one classroom.

It hasn't been completely smooth sailing.

“Sometimes we have technical difficulties, not too often but we're able to go... overcome them,” Cabada said.

Challenges aside, both teachers and students like the idea of the PLANK classroom. They'd like to see more of them throughout the campus.

“I'm already seeking furniture that is lab-friendly but yet somewhat more comfortable," said Brink, who teaches biology. "I think where there's a will there's a way.”

The school's principal, Dr. Chris Pryor said there are three other similar spaces on campus where he'd like this classroom copied.

Funding for these high-tech classrooms and computers comes from a half-cent sales tax Flagler County voters first approved in 2002 and then re-approved in 2012.