The educational practice of keeping students and teachers together for more than one year is called “looping.” District 112 elementary schools using the practice typically do so for two years.

Where “multi-age experiences” are designed to foster relationships between students of different ages, looping primarily focuses on student/teacher relationships.

District 112 began looping formally in 1996 with the opening of Bluff Creek Elementary.

District 112 schools that loop include:

Bluff Creek: Loops grades 1-4

Chanhassen: No formal looping

Chaska: No formal looping

Clover Ridge: Loops grades 1-4

East Union: Loops grades 2-5

Jonathan: No formal looping

Victoria: Loops grades 1-2, 4-5

You can read more about looping in the print edition of the Chaska Herald.

How do you feel about looping? Do you have children who have been in a looping program? How did they respond?