Home Educators
Welcome Home Educators!
Princeton Online MN, a virtual public school in partnership with Venture Upward, provides tuition-free, home-based education for Minnesota’s K-8th grade students. This comprehensive program includes curriculum, funding to support educational equity, community activities, and teacher support. With customized education plans and ongoing guidance, students thrive academically and personally. Venture Upward also provides exciting programming independent from the Princeton program, which is available to all MN students, regardless of their enrollment status!
Academics at a Glance
Core Courses: K-8 students use Adventure Learning Labs by Venture Upward, which are custom-designed core curricula modules that blend captivating video content with enriching literature-based activities and hands-on projects.
LIVE Classes: Princeton teachers offer LIVE learning module classes several times per week as an option for families. These classes support and reinforce the academic instruction embedded within the Adventure Learning Labs.
Extracurriculars:
Weekly on-site Venture School community day, two monthly subscription boxes, or unlimited access to hundreds of online courses through eDynamics.
Program Requirements:
- All Students: Weekly progress in courses
- Online Universal Screener: FastBridge or Star Reading and Math
- Screener for Advanced Academic Services: CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test)
Family Approved
“Venture Upward has been an incredible program for my family. It has given us support, access to an amazing curriculum, and hands-on learning experiences that we wouldn’t have had otherwise. Venture Upward is a true game changer in our home education journey!”
-Kim Haugan
Teacher SupportED
Dedicated Princeton, MN-licensed teachers support families by answering general questions, providing curriculum support, hosting LIVE learning opportunities, tutoring, and more. If a need for additional support in an area is observed, support may be requested through our highly qualified Student Success Team (SST) at any time. The SST program allows for research-based interventions to be implemented at the first sign of struggle or concern.
Benefits of our Venture Upward Partnership
Community Events
Families can participate in a variety of community events offered through Venture Upward.
- Annual: Home-education Conference
- Semester: Family Field Trips
- Quarterly: Community Service Opportunities, Professional Development, and Virtual Book Clubs for Parents
- Monthly: Park Days, Nature Clubs, and Virtual Book Clubs for Kids
- Other: National Pen Pal Program, Facebook Community, and more!
Venture School*
Venture Upward’s community day is a one-day-per-week, in-person extracurricular drop-off program where students engage with peers in a classroom setting and participate in local monthly educational adVENTURE days. Locations are available throughout the state. Each site’s classes are designed individually to meet the desires of locally enrolled families.
*These activities and services are optional and operated by Venture Upward, not Princeton Public Schools.
Venture Reward
Equity in education is something we are committed to, which is why the Venture Reward was implemented. This allocation is designed to provide funding for students to access items such as a laptop, tablet, internet, or additional learning materials meant to equip students to succeed throughout the school year. All items are the property of the district and must be returned if a student withdraws before the end of the school year.