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Overview

WELCOME TO CLC

We are a small, project-based, technology-enhanced middle school serving students in grades 5 through 8 within Centre County and neighboring counties since 1998. Our focus is to teach students real-world skills that enable them to create, innovate, and collaborate.

Project-based learning is the core of CLC's curriculum. Students' roles within a project-based learning environment are distinctly different from a traditional setting. Within a project-based classroom, students are provided scenarios and given large chunks of time to create solutions and final products that mimic what professionals create in the real world. Along the way, students utilize a variety of skills and knowledge as opposed to learning fragmented subject areas. Depending upon the project, students may create wind farms, new food products, robots, or any other product made in the real world. As a result of these project-based creations, students learn valuable skills and perform because of an intrinsic desire to do so, not to avoid punishment or to gain awards.

In order to create innovative solutions, each student at CLC is provided access to a technology at school and at home in the form of a MacBook or iPad. This access to technology allows students to use their knowledge in powerful ways. Students at CLC become masters of basic computer applications (word processing, spreadsheets, and email), as well as advanced computer applications (graphic design, video editing, and 3D modeling). CLC students have had 1:1 access to laptops and notebooks since 1998. Students use their electronic devices like professionals to create quality final products as opposed to using technology as a replacement for worksheets. Our students also enjoy ample time away from their devices to utilize hands-on technology while building products that engage creativity and problem solving skills.

CLC students collaborate with peers and teachers throughout each school day in a small school setting that provides middle school students with the individual attention that they need to thrive. The school has fewer than 100 students and a healthy 1:10 teacher-student ratio. Due to our project-based learning model, students meet one-on-one with their teachers regularly as they discuss progress toward project goals. Also, teachers are involved in multi-year relationships with their students. This allows CLC teachers a unique depth of insight into their students and what works for them. All community members are on a first name basis with each other. This helps to create and maintain an environment of mutual respect amongst students, teachers, and families of CLC.

 Young student learning at clc charter school.
Two young students working on a hands on project at clc charter school.
Group of young students working together at clc charter school.

WHAT PARENTS SAY ABOUT CLC

Students are empowered to see learning as a process that requires experimentation, exploration, success, and failure. It isn't a linear process. I love that they are not afraid to try new things and not afraid to fail. This requires a very unique environment that is supportive and intimate.

Testimonials

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

Board Minutes

CLC has its own school board. Click the arrow below to view the minutes of any meeting.

link to boad minutes

Parent Info

Use the arrow below to see our handbook, conduct code, and special education information. 

link to parent info

School Policies

Our official school policies can be seen in their entirety using the arrow linked below.

link to policies

Useful Forms

Educational trip and other useful forms for parents can be found using the link below.

link to useful forms
PublicDocuments

Right to Know requests may be submitted to Brian Rowan (info@clcharter.org, 841-861-7980) and appealed to the Office of Open Records. Requests will be responded to in accordance with the school's Right to Know policy and applicable laws.

Nondiscrimination Notice

The Centre Learning Community Charter School (CLC) complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or age; and does not retaliate against persons who file a discrimination complaint or lawsuit, who complain about discrimination; or who participate in a discrimination proceeding, such as being a witness in a complaint investigation or lawsuit. 

 

If you believe that CLC has discriminated in any way on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex, you can file a grievance by following our nondiscrimination policy or by contacting the Office for Civil Rights.

Office of Justice Programs 
Office for Civil Rights 
810 7th Street, NW 
Washington, D.C. 20531 

McKinney-Vento Notice

The McKinney-Vento Act provides rights and services to children and youth experiencing homelessness, which includes those who are: sharing the housing of others due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; staying in motels, trailer parks, or camp grounds due to the lack of an adequate alternative; staying in shelters or transitional housing; or sleeping in cars, parks, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, or similar settings. Please use the link below or contact our Homelessness Liaison, Brian Rowan, at brian@clccharter.org or 814-861-7980 to learn more.

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1Il1WqSSn0Y7o5Kks1eHgs8CSyETQQBth

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