What is an ELO?

An Extended Learning Opportunity (ELO) is a credit-bearing learning experience that takes place outside the traditional classroom.

Get ideas from our collection of real ELOs
Educators, design your ELO program
Students, is an ELO right for you?

News & Notes

ELO Network meeting May 10, 9:00-11:00 am

The next ELO Network (ELON) meeting is Wednesday, February 8, from 9:00 – 11:00 am at the Walker Building, Room 100, 21 Fruit St, Concord, NH. Zoom link if you can’t attend in person. 

2022 ELO Coordinator of the Year

The New Hampshire Extended Learning Opportunity Network (NH ELON) selected Sean Peschel as the 2022 New Hampshire Extended Learning Opportunity Coordinator of the Year. This award is sponsored by the New Hampshire Lodging & Restaurant Association.

Mr. Peschel is the ELO Coordinator at Oyster River High School. Through his role he is able to provide a vast array of career exploration and credit-bearing learning opportunities for students to pursue outside of school, including job shadows and career speakers series to industry tours and credit-bearing internships and other extended learning opportunities. Read full announcement

ELO Introductions

Fifteen minute video overview with the voices of students, teachers and community partners.

Four New Hampshire students talk about their ELOs in a 4:18-minute video.

More: YouTube playlist for ELOs in New Hampshire

Next Steps NH Project

This site is a resource for ELO development in New Hampshire and was supported 2012-2018 by the Next Steps NH project. It is currently supported by the New Hampshire Department of Education.

Next Steps NH provided professional development and coaching to selected New Hampshire high schools for the purpose of increasing the graduation rate of students with disabilities, and students at risk.

The contents of this website were developed under a grant from the US Department of Education, H323A120003. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the US Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. (Project Officer, Corinne Weidenthal)

This website and the Next Steps NH products on it are public domain. Authorization to reproduce them in whole or in part is granted. While permission to reprint publications on this website is not necessary, the citation should be: NH State Personnel Development Grant – Next Steps NH (2012-2017). New Hampshire Department of Education, Concord, New Hampshire, Author(s).

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