Outstanding teachers: Our teachers are loved by our parent community with a 99% approval rating among parents district-wide.
Personalized Learning: At Eden Prairie Schools, we believe each learner has unique talents and gifts. Through personalized learning, teachers work to understand, care and nurture student strengths, while students are encouraged to take ownership of their learning and explore their interests and passions.
4Cs: Our teaching practices emphasize the 4Cs: creativity, collaboration, critical thinking and communication. These are the skills essential for both career and citizenship.
Mindfulness: Students engage in strategies throughout the day to help reduce stress, improve attention and promote overall student wellness.
Aeroponics: Students have access to hands-on science experience as they learn the process of growing plants without the use of soil and are able to eat the food they grow.
Gifted programming: We offer the KEY programs for students to engage in activities utilizing problem solving, higher level thinking skills and advanced topics.
Orchestra, choir and band: Students engage in musical education each week. Eden Prairie Schools is one of the few districts to offer orchestra at the elementary level.
We are an AVID school: AVID is an educational program that supports all learners to be college and career ready. Students learn a set of strategies that are used across all grade levels to help each child learn. The strategies focus on inquiry, organization, reading, writing to learn, and collaborating with others.
University partnerships: We partner with the U. of Minnesota, the U. of North Dakota, Iowa State U., and multiple other in-state universities to bring student teachers to our school. These partnerships put a second teacher in many of our classrooms, providing an even lower teacher-to-student ratio. Student teachers also bring the latest research and teaching strategies from some of the top teacher preparation programs in the nation.