Cloquet Community Education

Cloquet Community Education was awarded a $24,000 Water Safety Grant from the Minnesota Department of Education. The purpose of this grant is to help reduce drownings by providing swim lessons, increased access to lifeguarded swim facilities, and to increase the number of teenagers/young adults certified as a lifeguard or water safety instructor. Scholarships are available only to those receiving Educational Benefits (formerly called Free and Reduced lunch). Eligibility will be verified with the school district your child attends. If you have not applied for Educational Benefits, please go to this link to do so. We can also help you access the online application in the Community Education office as well. Swim lesson scholarships are for ages 4 to 18. Priority will be given to those that have never participated in swim lessons. Depending on the demand for scholarships, if awarded you may apply for a second scholarship in case there are funds remaining. Scholarships are $100 and are to be used for swim lessons with any remaining amounts to be used for Friday Night Family Swims or towards another swim lesson. For example, if your child participates in 2 classes at $45 each, the remaining $10 can be used for Friday Night Family Swims. Or you can use the $10 towards a third swim lesson class. To help you decide which swim level your child should be enrolled in, please see this link: Swim Lesson Descriptions The scholarships are for children that attend the following school districts: Cloquet Fond-du-lac Carlton Wrenshall Esko Barnum Moose Lake If selected for a scholarship, you will be contacted.

If you are interested in getting a text and/or email when new swim lessons are posted on our site, please sign up here. We must have a valid cell number to text. Please only register adults in this course. You only need to register once. Some cell phone companies do block our texts, so you are encouraged to also provide an email address as well. If you have an Android phone, you can unblock our texts by doing the following: Unblock a conversation Open the Messages app . Tap More options. Spam & blocked. Select the contact from the list. Tap Unblock. Otherwise, tap Back We do not know of a fix for Iphones. If you need to be removed from text/email alerts for swim lessons, please call our office at 218-879-1261. Thank you.

Are you interested in getting certified to teach swim lessons? If so, we will hold a Water Safety Instructor (WSI) class as soon as we have enough interest. This course trains American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor (TM) candidates to teach courses and presentations in the Red Cross Swimming and Water Safety program by developing their understanding of how to use the course materials, how to conduct training sessions and how to evaluate participants progress. The courses and presentations include Parent and Child Aquatics Levels 1 and 2, Preschool Aquatics Levels 1 - 3, Learn-to-Swim Levels 1 - 6, three adult courses as well as the Basic Water Rescue and Personal Water Safety courses and more. To enroll, instructor candidates must be at least 16 years of age on or before the last day of the instructor course and successfully complete the precourse session which includes demonstration of swimming skill at Learn-to-Swim Level 4. Please sign up and we will contact you once we have a date set!