El Dorado County Office of Education Child Development Programs

03/17/2026

03/17/2026

Are you ready to meet our next animal storytime guest? 🐾🦝 Learn all about these clever foragers with this Thursday, March 19 at 10 am. For ages 3-5 and a caregiver.

03/17/2026

03/17/2026

Friday mornings at 9:30
Mother Goose on the Loose is a lap-sit storytime for little ones, age 0-2 years old. This award-winning program combines music, movement, visual literacy, and language development to help children get ready to read.

03/17/2026

—Families thrive when physical health, emotional regulation, and connection work together - yet sleep challenges, behavior concerns, and caregiver stress are often addressed in isolation.

This BrightLife Kids webinar offers an evidence-informed, systems-based framework for supporting family wellness across sleep, nutrition, behavior, and caregiver stress.

Participants gain practical, immediately applicable tools for navigating picky eating, bedtime resistance, emotional dysregulation, and relational strain — all adaptable to diverse family structures and contexts.

👇 Click the link in the comments to register today

03/17/2026

Join Miss Savannah on Friday, March 27th at 9:30am or 10:30am for the next Mother Goose on the Loose program! (Please note: There will be no Mother Goose on the Loose classes held on March 13th or March 20th.) This award-winning program combines music, movement, visual literacy and language development to help children get ready to read! Mother Goose on the Loose is a lap-sit storytime for little ones aged 0-2 and their caregiver.

03/17/2026

The El Dorado Western Railroad is featuring the Spring Eggstravaganza on March 28 and April 4. Board the train at the El Dorado Depot, enjoy the open-air excursion car and take part in an egg hunt. Egg hunt bags for the event will be provided..

Purchase your tickets at ElDoradoWesternRailway.simpletix.com

Tickets go on sale at 9:00 AM:
$12 for adults & children 9 & up
$3 for children 4 to 8
Free for children 3 & under

A processing fee is added to each ticket

Call (530) 663-3581 for questions and to confirm departure times. The telephone is monitored on scheduled train ride days. Please remember that there are a limited number of seats available for each train. So, make your reservation early. A limited number of walk-on tickets will be available from the station agent. Riders younger than 16 must be accompanied by a responsible adult. No animals are allowed on board. The round trip (50 to 60 minutes) takes you east from the depot on the historic Southern Pacific Placerville Branch rail line. The train stops short of Missouri Flat Road, before returning to the depot.

We'll see you on the train!

03/09/2026

EDCOE is hiring a Lead Driver I/II for our Transportation Department.
Pay range is $4,045.50 - $5,265.24 monthly.
Apply at https://www.edjoin.org/Home/JobPosting/2185795
EOE/SP4030

03/09/2026

All behavior is simply a means of communicating.

Quick questions to ask ourselves when faced with student behavior: What skills could be missing based on this kind of behavior? What behavior can I model ?

03/09/2026

03/09/2026

Come crawl, play, and grow with us during Crawl Space this Monday, March 9 at 10 am 🩷 For ages 0-2 and caregivers.