Early Learning

ECFE works to strengthen families and encourages parents to provide the best possible environment for the healthy development of their children.

All ECFE classes are taught by licensed Early Childhood Educators and licensed Parenting Educators to provide the quality education parents are looking for.

Together, parents and young children participate in activities and experiences that foster children’s social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and language skills.

Parents and caregivers also have the opportunity to spend time with the licensed Parenting Educator and discuss parenting issues as a group.  The day-to-day experiences of parenting are enjoyable, complex, and at times stressful.   The Parenting Educator will facilitate discussions on everyday parenting issues​, ​parenting concerns, and ​current topics in parenting.​

ECFE educators use the Parent Education Core Curriculum Framework and Early Childhood Indicators of Progress: Minnesota’s Early Learning Standards provided through the Minnesota Department of Education.

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Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) services are designed for children birth until the child's seventh birthday who have been identified with a delay in development. Services begin with a developmental evaluation. This evaluation documents a child’s skills in a variety of areas such as cognition, motor, social-emotional, language-communication, and/or adaptive (self-help) development. There are also certain conditions and medical diagnoses that automatically qualify a child for ECSE services. 

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