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Since December, ECFE classes at Marshall Public Schools have been meeting in new classroom space at Park Side Elementary. A new building addition at Park Side, completed this fall, allowed enough room for the new classroom space.
MARSHALL Â A new early learning classroom at Park Side Elementary is complete and serving area families and kids, Early Childhood Family Education educators said Monday.
“It’s just beautiful and wonderful, and we couldn’t be happier,” said Early Learning Coordinator Tiffany Teske.
Teske and ECFE teachers Lori Radke and Alyssia Coudron talked about the move to the new classroom during an update to the Marshall School Board. They also discussed how the ECFE program was adapting to new safety needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
ECFE Director
Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) and Eagles Preschool are Community Education programs that offer programming for children and their families from birth to kindergarten.
Our ECFE program held both in-person and virtual parent-child classes for families this fall. We offered four in-person sections, a virtual infant class, and our new Grab and Go bags for families not comfortable coming to the Washington Learning Center for class. In order to offer in-person classes, we limited the number of families in each class and then changed some from a 9-week session to two 5-week sessions in order to serve more families. We had 55 families take part in classes this fall! Registration for our next session of classes opened on Monday, January 10 with the first classes beginning in February.
Dispatch Top 10 - No. 10: Construction continues in city and Brainerd schools
The city of Brainerd and Brainerd Public Schools are taking shape as remodeling projects continued through the year and will continue into 2021. 4:00 am, Jan. 3, 2021 ×
Devyn Richards (left) and Rollie Beach with Beach Construction trowel wet concrete Monday, Aug. 17, 2020 for a new sidewalk at Lowell Elementary School. Steve Kohls / Brainerd Dispatch
The year 2020 was busy for Brainerd when it comes to remodeling and building projects, with both the school and the city in the midst of large construction projects.
City of Brainerd
In June 2019, the Brainerd City Council agreed to move ahead with renovations to its historic city hall. According to the 2017 study, issues of city hall included a failing heating, ventilation and air conditioning, or HVAC system, and space issues in both the main part and the annex portion of the building. There also were configuration issues in t
It was a strange year to be living in Shakopee (or anywhere on the planet, really), thanks to the global pandemic.Â
The Shakopee Valley News has featured some of the biggest and best stories of the year which you can read here and find in our weekly print edition. You can also check out our roundup of upcoming developments to keep an eye out for in 2021 here. The list includes a new VA clinic, housing and more.Â
This list represents the most-read stories on shakopeenews.com from the year 2020, based on pageviews. Our most-read story was written in March, shortly after Shakopee Public Schools announced a parent had been exposed to COVID-19. It was the first story of dozens our newspaper would write about the devastating impact the virus had on the community.
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December 22, 2020
South Washington County Schools (SoWashCo) is planning to bring our youngest students back to school for regular in-person learning in January. In-person learning is not the same as the hybrid learning model that alternated students between A and B days.
In-person learning is where all students learn at school daily (five days a week) with social distancing in place as much as possible. The state guidelines allow the return of no more than three grade levels at one time in a two week period (no earlier than Jan. 18).
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What This Means for Students and Families
Elementary students in kindergarten through grade two will return to in-person learning on Tuesday, Jan. 19.