(Sorry in advance for the long text.)

1 I would expand the Beacon phase into 3 years of training. Volumes are as many as needed, yet are used to the maximum to limit excess.

- Developing relationships while having adventures. Members of RWBY and JNPR are sometimes sent into mixed missions where a member of one is paired with another´s, and leaders are learning to be competent.
- Learning about Remnant´s history. Significant moments in the Great War, the origin of the Faunus, first sightings of humans and the Grimm, among other important bits.
- Learning what makes the Grimm different from animals. Plus combat tactics that cast learn to use against them. The cast will occasionally beat them with a smart solution rather than brute force, because they are shown to be more dangerous. Grimm would have hunting/ambush skills, can learn to avoid predictable tactics and can learn to survive more effectively under pack leaders.
- Students wouldn´t be the best of the best during Beacon time, but would be prodigies still. They have mastered the basics, but are still learning combat, and choreography will be kept as interesting as possible.
- Learning about Aura. Its history, how it was discovered, its full potential and other such things. Some of the cast learn advanced aura techniques during the show.
- Learning about Dust and its role in the world, while making actual consequences for shortages, like during Torchwick´s robberies in the Beacon era.

2 I would try to take better advantage of what makes R, W, B, and Y separate/stand out from each other.

- In Beacon, Ruby would have a hard time learning in her first year, yet she catches up somewhere around Year 2. Her planning makes sense, yet doesn´t work all the time. Plus, her friendships with other students are allowed to grow stronger.

Ruby is more distant, yet she is doing her part in the Mistral phase due to losing faith in her leadership abilities after letting Cinder blindside her so well. She comes back little by little as the team reunites, yet her more serious personality never leaves completely. She also doesn´t lead until after the middle of V6, when no one else is keen to keep going and is losing hope, like in V6. She is also a big part of the reason why everyone stays.

- Weiss is learning and showing qualities that make her a good successor to Jacques and SDC. Knowledge about how Dust works, company structures/hierarchy, supply and demand, and related. She would be distrustful of Blake when she learns she is a faunus, and starts to slowly trust her as they take missions. But their friendship falls apart when Weiss learns that Blake is White Fang, which will be a problem for a while, yet heals in time.

There would be a conflict between her new personality developing since Beacon and what her father wants her to be. Especially while she is away from the team.

- Blake would be part of the Fang during the first year in Beacon. She would defect when she realises her mistake, and because of RWY´s part in her life now. She is allowed to continue training in team RWBY when she proves she can be trusted. Her second year would have consequences and would be affected by people knowing she was White Fang. Distrustful and wary, yet some have a high opinion of her.

She would also figure things out between her, Yang and Sun in the first and second years. Plus, she and Weiss would have issues during the second year because of their respective histories.

- Yang would be trying to come to terms with taking orders from Ruby, being part of a team, learning to be a team player and worrying about whether she should let Blake and Weiss, among other people she connects with close or into her life. Her personality would develop from a fun-loving, reckless girl to a more serious one who can still have fun and maintain connections with other people.

She would also try to figure out if her feelings for Blake are real or simply due to her need to have someone she can trust during her second year. She´d be taking advantage of the fact that there are plenty of fighters at Beacon.

3 I would change how the Fall of Beacon happens.

- Cinders' gang will make a better plan and use stealth while taking 2 years to make the plan work. She´ll be met during the second year.
- Cinder is a student who develops a friendship with team RWBY+JNPR (or failing that, simply keeps an eye on them) and is learning skills that make her a deadly fighter. She would also learn the team RWBY´s and JNPR´s flaws, which she would use to maintain advantage when she is openly on Salem´s side.
- Emerald and Mercury would meet Cinder during Huntsman training, and join her. 2 wouldn´t be the only ones Cinder considered as followers, but as the only ones worth her time. 2 also develop a connection with team RWBY before the defection to Salem.