Environmental Education Center Screening Award-Winning Film

The Somerset County Park Comission Environmental Education Center, in partnership wit The Willow School, is screening the award-winning film “School’s Out: Lessons from a Forest Kindergarten” at the center later this month.

The film screening will take place on Wednesday, March 25, at 7 p.m. at the Environmental Education Center, 190 Lord Stirling Road in Basking Ridge. The screening is open to the public free of charge.

The producer of the film, Rona Richter, will also be speaking at the film screening, the Somerset County Park Commission said.

The documentary, directed by Lisa Molomot, compared how students in an outdoor kindergarten in Switzerland learn with students in a New Haven, Connecticut public school kindergarten, according to the Park Commission.

Immediately after the film, the Environmental Education Center will be hosting a panel discussion regarding the documentary. Richter will be on-hand for the discussion.

For more information about the screening or Park Commission activities, contact Shawn McCrohan at 908-766-2489 ext. 334 or smccrohan@scparks.org.

(Photo courtesy of the Somerset County Park Commission)