Experiential Learning Choices Programs
The Upper Grand DSB offers a number of Experiential Learning Choices Programs (ELCPs), which are board-approved programs that provide a short-term extension of the regular school program with a focused curricular emphasis.
ELCPs provide choice and programming options to students, allowing them to pursue personal interests and strengths while exploring a variety of destinations and pathways.
Beyond Borders 
Location: Tytler Public School, 131 Ontario Street, Guelph
Beyond Borders is an off-site business-learning program, with bundled courses in Business, English, Math, and an elective credit. Beyond Borders offers an opportunity for all enthusiastic and community-minded grade 12 students to enjoy a unique semester that will truly prepare them for the future. The program focuses on leadership development, business, math, global development and sustainability, with an emphasis on team-building, skill development, and experiential learning. Visit the Beyond Borders website for more information.
Community Environmental Leadership Program (CELP)
Locations: various off-site
CELP is a 4-credit environmental leadership program. As a community of 24, students have a fall canoe or winter snowshoe trip, teach grade fives the Earthkeepers nature program, take their English, Civics and Careers courses in the context of environmental issues and form lasting friendships over community meals. CELP is open to all students in the Upper Grand District School Board through three sponsoring schools: Centennial CVI (see www.ugdsb.ca/celp), Norwell DSS (see norwellcelp.ca) and Wellington Heights SS.
da Vinci Arts & Science Environmental Leadership Program 
Location: Arboretum, University of Guelph
da Vinci is an interdisciplinary program open to all grade 11 students. Students will have the opportunity to obtain 4 Grade 11 credits (EnglishENG 3U, Biology SBI 3U, Visual Arts AVI 3M and Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology HSP 3M) in a natural setting nestled among hiking trails, forests and ponds of the Arboretum at the University of Guelph. For more information, visit the da Vinci website.
Digital Historian Project (DHP) 
Locations: TBD
The Digital Historian Project (DHP) is a partnership between the Upper Grand District School Board and the Dufferin County Museum and Archives (DCMA), involving three participating high schools: Centre Dufferin DHS, Orangeville DSS and Westside SS. Students take four credits in History and Data Management (math), spending about nine weeks each at the DCMA and in class. The program also includes drama, art and music. Digital Historian Project website
*The DHP is not running in the 2019-20 school year.
Headwaters
Location: Unitarian Congregation of Guelph
Headwaters is a program for grade 12 students in the Upper Grand District School Board. It offers 4 credits (Outdoor Activities, Environmental and Resource Management, English, and Interdisciplinary Studies) in a unique, semester-long, out-of-school format. Headwaters brings together 24 students from different schools to create a close knit community for learning and creating. Despite not knowing one another before the program, the students form friendships, experiences, and memories that will last a lifetime.
Interdisciplinary Dufferin Experiential Arts (IDEA)
Location: TBD
The IDEA program will offer a 4-credit package that includes three arts credits: Drama in the Community, Non-Traditional Art, Exploring the Arts as well as Writer’s Craft (offered as both a College and University Grade 12 combined course).
*IDEA is not running in the 2019-20 school year.
MADE in Guelph – The Urban Arts Project
Location: Guelph Youth Music Centre, 75 Cardigan Street, Guelph
MADE in Guelph is an exciting and engaging four-credit program for grade 11 students with a keen interest in the Arts. Central to the focus of MADE is that the Arts can be used as a tool for community-building, cultural development, and profound social change.
Check out our Pathways Website to learn more about Career/Life Planning programming in UGDSB.