Empowering Maine students and schools to create healthy, vibrant communities.
ELLMS is a collaboration of Maine residential environmental learning centers working together with Maine schools and other partners to facilitate learning opportunities that empower students to create healthy, vibrant communities.
We promote best-in-class residential environmental learning in Maine for all students, create model community-based education partnerships, and contribute to statewide initiatives.
"Educating with Passion"
"What overnight educational opportunities do for kids, they also do for teachers. It puts them in a very different experience and mindset and it allows them to think differently than they would from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. I think you should get teachers away from the environment they are fixated on to get them to think differently."
Administrator
ELLMS Partner School
"Embracing Healthy Challenges"
"...when you collaborate with the people around you, it creates a comfort zone to try new things. Teachers know that I’m going to help them try something new. Sometimes people need that support, and sometimes people know you’re going to make the change anyway, so they’re willing to join in."
Teacher
ELLMS Partner School