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Odyssey Academy
6201 Noble Avenue North
Brooklyn Center, MN 55429
Phone: (763) 971-8200
Fax: (763) 549-2380
Kids' Club (763) 549-2381 

Odyssey Academy is committed to providing a nurturing, innovative and challenging environment emphasizing independent thinking, high academic achievement and social responsibility through partnerships with families, teachers and community.
Odyssey Academy is committed to providing a nurturing, innovative and challenging environment emphasizing independent thinking,  high academic achievement and social responsibility through partnerships with families, teachers and community.

Odyssey's Small Class Sizes 

  • Kindergarten- 18 students per classroom
  • First-Fifth Grades- 21 students per classroom
  • Sixth-Eighth Grades- 22 students per classroom

Where Everyone Really Does Know Your Name

The feeling of family by maintaining small class sizes is paramount to who we are. We celebrate the foundations of family every Friday morning, in Family Groups comprised of students from each grade level, K-8, who remain together all year.  Here, we conduct our morning meeting, and proceed with an activity, typically partnered-up, continuing the mentoring relationship between elementary and middle school students. Activities may include sharing a story or playing a board game. Project nights and family events are held each trimester to promote students and parents involvement in the education process.

Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies.

Recognized by Hennepin County as a Gold Level Winner for our Wellness Plan promoting a healthy school environment, Odyssey educates the whole child. We teach in a small class-sized environment, which focuses on creating healthy bodies and healthy minds. We foster healthy eating habits, and offer students gym three times each week. Healthy minds are nurtured in multi-age classrooms, allowing students the opportunity to learn from one another. In this way, peer learning and mentoring evolves naturally. Multi-age classrooms encourage parents, students and teachers to build relationships for two consecutive years. 

Odyssey C.A.R.E.S.

Our teachers are trained in Responsive Classroom, a social curriculum which helps build our school into a learning community where both social and academic goals are obtained. Under the Responsive Classroom Model, the CARES philosophy character development program is key to our success. CARES stands for Cooperation, Assertion, Responsibility, Empathy and Self-Control. 

Throughout the year, all Odyssey students are recognized for at least one of these characteristics; have their photo taken for a spotlight appearance on our CARES Showcase Bulletin Board, and are recognized during classroom celebrations, or an all-school assembly, as the school calendar accommodates.

Community & World Citizens

Odyssey believes that learning happens best when children are active participants. Involvement in maintaining a healthy, sustainable school, taking expeditions into the world, whether to an Environmental Learning Center or participating in service-learning, assists in shaping our students into responsible, engaged citizens. 

Our students know what the world has to offer,  and what they have to offer the world. Each student will leave our school ready  to use their unique gifts and skills to contribute to their community in a positive way.

Expectations

Odyssey Academy is committed to providing a nurturing, innovative, and challenging environment emphasizing independent thinking, active learning, high academic achievement, and social responsibility through partnerships with families, teachers, and communities.

The Odyssey Community believes in showing:

 Respect
  • Self
  • Others
  • Environment
Responsibility
  • Learning
  • Actions
  • Environment
 Support
  • Students
  • Families
  • Staff

Statement of Beliefs

The fundamental values and beliefs that support the mission, goals, and programs of Odyssey Academy are: 

  • Children, by nature, are learners and are capable of high achievement;
  • Families are the first and primary educators for children;
  • Children need a safe learning environment, accepting of their individuality and diversity, learning styles and abilities;
  • Learning occurs best when positive, long-lasting relationships exist between families, educators, and communities; and
  • Children become involved citizens and contribute to the community when they experience supportive environments and caring relationships with others. 

Philosophies & Practices

Odyssey Academy strives to provide continuous learning, which is tailored to the student's interests and abilities, and is organized around authentic human activities and is sensitive to the development of the whole child. Educators will strive to accomplish the continuity of learning through: 
  • continuous progress and learning, allowing each child to move through content at their own rate;
  • establishment of teachers/student relationships for periods of two or more years in multi-age classes;
  • expected involvement and participation of parents in the classroom, as well as in individual program conferencing, planning, and collaboration;
  • development of Individualized Learning Education Plans for each student, involving the parent, student, and teacher;
  • partnerships with the community organizations through youth service-learning opportunities and business mentorships. 
Odyssey Academy staff is expected to provide, in their daily work, an integration of real-life experiences, world themes, and academics. Through this integrated framework, all students are assured of: 
  • learning in an environment that is safe and accepting of their individuality;
  • learning in a setting reflective of family and community values;
  • learning in collaborative or shared learning experiences;
  • applying what is learned in basic subjects to community activities, projects, and real-world situations; and
  • becoming involved citizens and contributors to the community. 

Shoot for the moon, if you miss you'll land among stars.

Odyssey Academy believes that:
  • Children, by nature, are learners and are capable of high achievement
  • Families are the first and primary educators of children
  • Children need a safe learning environment, accepting of their individuality and diversity, learning styles and abilities
  • Learning occurs best when positive, long-lasting relationships exist between families, educators, and communities
  • Children become involved citizens and contribute to the community when they experience supportive environments and caring relationships

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