Teachers, parents, and students at Metro Open School work together to plan an individualized academic approach in order to meet each student's needs based on abilities, interests, and learning styles.

The courses taught depend on the students' interests and needs: for example human body, geology, or astrophysics in science and Native Americans, ancient civilizations, and the role of transportation in social studies.

Through a comprehensive, integrated approach to learning, we develop students' innovative critical thinking skills and their sense of social responsibility. We believe in educating the whole child. To accomplish this, we supplement in school work with nearly weekly field trips, including to nature centers, museums, historic sites, zoos, and the MN Landscape Arboretum, as well as attending plays and music and dance performances.

• Sample Field Trips
• Bryant Lake Park
• MN Landscape Arboretum: Hike for the Birds
• Firefighters Hall & Museum
• Walker Sculpture Garden
• Children's Theater, Sleeping Beauty
• Weisman Art Museum, Russian Art
• Museum of Russian Sample Field Trips
• Science Museum of Minnesota:
• Omnifilm ‐ Mystery of the Nile
• Edinborough Park‐ swimming
• Westwood Nature Center, Nocturnal Animal
• City Children's Nutcracker
• Minnesota Children's Museum: Jump to Japan exhibit
• O'Shaughnessy, James Sewell Ballet
• MN Orchestra Young People's Concert, How the Gimquat Found Her Song
• Ice Skating
• Minneapolis Institute of Art
• Minnesota Zoo
• Richardson Nature Center, Maple Syruping
• Stepping Stone Theater‐Adventures of Hanuman, King of the Monkeys
• MN Cross Country Ski
• St. Paul Chamber Orchestra & the MN Opera, Mozart Mania
• Minnesota History Center
• Stages Theater, Cinder Edna
• Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
• Youth Performance Co: Paul Bunyan & Other Minne Tales
• Westwood Hills Nature Center Who and What lives here
• Camping Trip