EXPO for Excellence Magnet School prepares students with the skills and knowledge they need to participate and thrive in a multicultural, global world.  We believe that students need to be socially and emotionally healthy and be given opportunities and responsibilities as members of a larger community.

EXPO engages students in an active and rigorous curriculum to prepare them for the 21st century.  Our mission is firmly grounded in our core values of the importance of community, multi-intelligences and multiple learning styles, appreciation of diversity, thematic education, and our belief in child-centered, responsive education.

EXPO boasts a half-day four-year-old kindergarten, all day kindergarten and follows a multi age model for other grades. 1st and 2nd grade students are "linked" together in a combination of looping and multi-age programming. Older students learn in multi-age classrooms combining 3rd and 4th, and 5th and 6th grades. Home-base educators collaborate with specialists including a gifted and talented specialist, and specialists in the humanities/visual arts, music, science, technology, band and orchestra, physical education, special education, mathematics and reading. Students’ use of technology is designed to prepare them to create knowledge, not to simply memorize information. Partnerships like our SCRATCH pilot project with MIT help students to be prepared for the knowledge society.

EXPO students learn through languages, numbers, rhythms, art, body movements, real life experiences, service learning projects, volunteer opportunities and much more. EXPO educators are nationally known for using multiple learning styles to help children learn and then to connect their learning to the global world. EXPO has a partnership with the MN International Center so that international speakers can add depth and a human story to the subjects our students are studying.

Special Features:

• Students are actively involved in their literacy education through Readers and Writers Workshop.
   
• Mathematics instruction is aligned with K-6 with opportunities for advancement and enrichment. 
   
• Enrichment classes, including Spanish, Hmong, and French are offered for all students through the Theaters of Learning and after school Community Education classes.
   
• EXPO educators implement Responsive Classroom, All Families Matter, and LifeSkills curricula.