Welcome to ECFE: Where learning begins, and families thrive. ECFE supports parents and children (from birth to age five) on a journey of growth and discovery.
We offer screening appointments at three convenient locations: Arbor View Early Childhood Center; Brooklyn Park Library and Willow Lane Early Childhood Center
*School Year - Before and/or After School Child Care K-5 **Summer - Child Care entering K-5
From October 2 - October 13, you have an opportunity to voluntarily make a tax-deductible donation to District 279 Foundation, Greater Twin Cities United Way and/or a non-profit of your choosing through Osseo Area Schools 2023 Employee Giving Campaign.
Osseo Area Schools Early Childhood & Family Education Preschool and PreK. 763-391-8777 or email: ecfe@district279.org
Welcome to Osseo Area Schools Early Childhood & Family Education (EC&FE) Preschool and PreK programs!
Classes specifically designed for parents and infants. Families stay together the entire class time. Registration is based on the age of the child at the start date of each class.
For Parents and Children 12 - 24 months. Children must be 1 or older by September 1, 2023.
Specially designed classes for parents and children ages 2 to 5 years old. Children must be 2 or older by September 1, 2023.
Mixed Age adventures for parents and children age birth to 5 years old. Parent and child separating time will be determined by the needs of the group.
You are scheduling an Early Childhood Screening Appointed located at: Arbor View Early Childhood Center 9401 Fernbrook Ln N Maple Grove, MN 55369 763-391-8777
You are scheduling an Early Childhood Screening Appointment located at: Brooklyn Park Library 8500 W Broadway Ave Brooklyn Park, MN 55445 763-585-7330
You are scheduling an Early Childhood Screening Appointed located at: Inside the Northwest Family Service Center Building. 7051 Brooklyn Blvd Suite 302 Brooklyn Center, MN 55429 763-585-7330
You are scheduling an Early Childhood Screening Appointment located at: Willow Lane Early Childhood Center 7020 Perry Ave N Brooklyn Center, MN 55429 763-585-7330
Osseo Area Schools Early Childhood & Family Education (EC&FE) offers Nature Area Preschool which immerses your child in a unique preschool experience where education comes alive in nature and provides a hands-on connection with the environment.
Osseo Area Schools Early Childhood & Family Education (EC&FE) offers a variety of affordable Preschool and PreK programs designed to support your child's development, and create a foundation for your child's future academic, emotional and social success.
Osseo Area Schools Early Childhood & Family Education (EC&FE) offers a variety of affordable Preschool programs designed to support your child's development, and create a foundation for your child's future academic, emotional and social success.
Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel one of Tess's classes and you have already been sent a recipe or ingredient list for the class, you will not receive a refund. All of her recipes are originals and are her creative property and will be published in her cookbook. Therefore, we will not be issuing refunds. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant.
Get your chopsticks ready! Really good Chinese take-out is often very difficult to find. Register for this master class and learn how to create, from scratch, a wonderful Chinese “better-than-take-out” meal in your own kitchen. Learn about the various ingredients and step-by-step processes that turn these ingredients into fabulous Chinese take-out favorites, and gain the confidence to create your own “better-than-take-out” meals time and time again. After this class, your search for Chinese take-out will be a search through your freezer and pantry. Although most Chinese take-out items are fried, this class also provides healthier options for cooking. Class will include a cook-along option for four recipes and one additional recipe will be demonstrated. There will be a discussion/presentation about ingredients and their use, in addition to basic equipment that is nice to have and why. Only those who register for the class will receive an all-inclusive professionally made PDF packet with all recipes and information shared during the class. Your cook a-along menu options: Fried Rice, Orange Chicken, General Tso’s Chicken, & Veggie or Chicken Egg Rolls. Additional demonstration only recipe: Chicken or Pork Lo Mein. Prep for the class will be required in advance by all who register as it will be very busy, fun, and informative. You will receive a list of ingredients in advance to allow time for shopping and prep. Class takes place on Zoom, a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. As an added bonus, Tess has created a private group and a public group on Facebook for participants of her cooking classes. Everyone will receive an invite to the groups although joining is optional. Come join the fun. Note: one registration fee for this virtual interactive class can include immediate family members living full-time in the same home only. If children are participating, adult supervision is required. If friends, adult children, or extended family members are gathering for a fun night together, each household must register separately even if participating together.
Tess Georgakopoulos, also known as “Chef Tess - Culinary Artist”, has been cooking and baking for well over 45 years since she was roughly 6 years old. Born into a Greek family, the art of cooking traditional meals using ones senses rather than recipes and measurements was passed on from one generation to the next. Her father was also a trained chef who brought the magic of food to life in another form on the weekends as they cooked elaborate family meals together. Food prepared from the heart, with ones own hands and creativity was, and continues to be an expression of love in her home. As an accomplished cook and baker, Tess enjoys creating original recipes for her family and friends. Sweet, savory, or doughy, she enjoys experimenting and creating in the kitchen daily.
Tess is proficient and experienced in creating classes and curriculum for conventional cooking, baking, pressure-cooking, air frying, pizza making, Mediterranean Cooking, and meal preparation as well. More recently, she is expanding her creativity and experience in the creation of Cooking Master Classes! A culinary artist indeed!
She has been teaching both in-person and on-line cooking classes through community education for a number of years, and is currently working with almost 60 public school districts in and around the Twin Cities, in many corners of Minnesota, in addition to school districts in Wisconsin, Missouri, New York, and Oklahoma! Through her teaching, Tess has helped people of all skill levels increase their confidence and expand their skills in the kitchen reaching heights of their own personal creativity that they never new existed!
Always working towards expanding her culinary repertoire, Tess enjoys spending much of her free time in her test kitchen creating new recipes and reinventing traditional ones as she combines traditional and new cooking methods, equipment, appliances, and technology in the creation of her recipes that help make “dishing” delicious and simple. Tess has recently started writing her first cookbook, and her food blog is also in the works! Some of her creations can be seen on her Facebook page, “Dish it up Good”, https://www.facebook.com/dishitupgood/ or on her Instagram Feed.
Tess Georgakopoulos
