Connecticut Experiential Learning Center, CELC Branford, Connecticut - Experiential Education

"An Outstanding Middle School Education"
28 School Street, Branford, CT 06405 • (203) 433-4658
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Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand. ~Chinese Proverb

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Empowering Youth

Curriculum Integrated Experiential Learning!

CT Experiential Learning Center (CELC) Middle School of Branford engages students through academic rigor in combination with hands-on and real-world experiences within a supportive learning community.

Students come from a variety of towns throughout Connecticut, from families looking for a program that engages and deepens learning, where their children thrive during these important and impactful 5th- 8th grade years.

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.  CELC provides an energizing, personalized, and significant middle school experience.

“CT Experiential Learning Center is middle school at its best!”


CT Experiential Learning Center is a proud member of the Coalition of Essential Schools.

CT Experiential Learning Center

Give your child a powerful and positive middle school experience!

Find out about CELC, Connecticut’s only experientially-based middle school!

Open House and Activity Day

Come meet teachers and students, stay for the art, music, science activities, and enjoy some refreshments!

Let us know you will join us!

 

Sunday, 27 August 2017

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

28 School Street, Branford, CT

RSVP mandm@CTExperiential.org or call 203.433.4658.

 

Openings Available Now for 2017-18 academic year

Visit online CTExperiential.org.

Imagine the middle school years as joyful, exciting, boundless ..!

The Latest CELC Events

Most Likely To Succeed – FREE film screening at CELC

On 19 October 2017 CELC Middle School and Guilford Free Library will take part in Most Likely to Succeed’s worldwide campaign to re-imagine education.

 Most Likely to Succeed (MLTS) offers an inspiring look at what students and teachers are capable of — if we have the vision and courage to transform our schools.

Directed by acclaimed documentarian Greg Whiteley, the film has been an official selection of two dozen of the world’s top
film festivals, including Sundance, Tribeca, AFI, Cleveland, Dallas, Milwaukee, Sarasota, Seattle, Virginia, and Bergen. It’s been featured at leading conferences on education, including ASU/GSV, SXSWedu, Harvard/Goldman Sachs, and New Schools Venture Fund. Audience members call it the most compelling film ever done on the topic of school.

This event will take place at Guilford Library, 67 park Street, Guilford, CT.  It is free and open to the public. Please visit mltsfilm.org for more information about the film and movement.

CELC Middle School / Guilford Library film screening will be followed by discussion.

Please contact mandm@CTExperiential.org or call 203.433.4658 or online www.CTExperiential.org for reservations and additional information.

News of the Week

Nothing Teaches Like Experience

Working with local environmental educator and ornithologist Dr. Celia Lewis, CELC Middle School students utilize the outdoors as their classroom! Pictured here, students are analyzing data from yearlong investigation of shore birds within the Farm River Watershed.

 

CELC Middle School believes in the power of learning through experience. One of the requirements for students moving into high school is to choose a field of study of interest and take on an internship in that field. Internships have included working at Mosaic Marketing to learn more about graphic design, working with children at Pine Orchard Nursery School, and learning about business alongside a jewelry buyer for Sylvie Collection. Pictured here, student Cade Morris begins his internship volunteering at Evergreen Woods Retirement Community in Branford.

CT Middle School student volunteer at Evergreen Woods