The Benefits of Environmental Preschool Education This interview first appeared in the Spring 2025 KCED Newsletter published on Wednesday, April 2nd. The full newsletter can be found here. Introduction: Over the past two years, the PWELC Nature Preschool received partial funding through investments from the Child Care Economic Development Grant, provided by Minnesota’s Department of […]
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SPICER — If you were to design from scratch what a nature-based, early childhood education center should offer, you would almost certainly come up with what the Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center already has. Its setting in northern Kandiyohi County offers roughly 500 acres of rolling terrain with woodlands, wetlands and prairie, along with seven miles
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The Kandiyohi County and City of Willmar Economic Development Commission is applying for a state grant to help fund two child care projects. The County Board OK’d a $70,000 request toward the grant. WILLMAR — It was a rush for the Kandiyohi County and city of Willmar Economic Development Commission to pull together a grant
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