An Outstanding Experiential Education for Young Adolescents
The intention of the Connecticut Experiential Learning Center (CELC) is to challenge students and nurture their highest potential. By providing a learning community based in the guiding principles of respect, integrity, responsibility and individual learning, the innate desire of all children to learn, grow, communicate, and create is honored.
The final week of instruction brought CELC students to Trap Rock Ridge camp for a two-night overnight. Cooking outdoors, sleeping under the stars, clamming in Long Island Sound, touring the Yale Art Gallery’s ancient art exhibit, and traveling to circus class filled the days.
“Who’s on poppy seed and who’s on toffee triangles?” begins our Why Cook? class, which takes place on Friday mornings at Connecticut Experiential Learning Center. Students gather around a dining room table that is filled with an assortment of bowls, measuring cups, and wet and dry ingredients.
After reading the recipes, students discuss what they now know about what is needed. As students share their understanding of the recipes they are about to produce, a lot of discussion related read more »
Connecticut Experiential Learning Center students and George Penniman Architects team up to conquer hunger at CANstruction 2010. Raising $1,115 in donations, CELC purchased over 1900 cans to construct the little blue train engine in storybook The Little Engine That Could. After the exhibition and awards ceremony to be held on Wednesday, 19 May at the CT Science Center in Hartford, all cans will be donated to the CT Food Bank. Thank you to all our many sponsors, especially to the Guilford Big Y for giving us 33% off the purchase of over 1000 of our cans.
