The Cannon River STEM School is a public K-8 charter school located in Faribault, Minnesota.
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Campus and Facilities
Our Vision is to be the preeminent leader in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education in Minnesota by creating a community of students who love to learn.
Our Mission is to foster each student’s innate curiosity and joy of discovery. We prepare students who are well educated, socially aware, scientifically literate, respectful, and responsible citizens in the global community. We achieve this by combining student-centered, collaborative and experiential instructional methods with exceptional parental and community involvement, and by using the environment as an integrating context.
The Cannon River STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) School will provide a unique and rewarding public education experience for students, parents and teachers. Our vision of becoming the preeminent leader in STEM education in Minnesota and our mission of fostering each student’s innate curiosity and joy of discovery, address the growing need for improved science and math education, locally, in Minnesota and nationally. Through an interdisciplinary STEM curriculum, our purpose for the charter school will be to improve student learning, increase learning opportunities for students and encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods.
The educational philosophy of the Cannon River STEM School is that of a learning laboratory incorporating inquiry-based, place-based, and project-based learning experiences with a strong emphasis on the processes of science. Located near the confluence of the Straight and Cannon Rivers, the Cannon River STEM School will employ new and innovative ideas for the development, delivery and management of curriculum in order to successfully educate and prepare our children for the challenges of the 21st century. Our education program utilizes the environment as an integrating context and other innovative curriculum models.
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