Acera Education Innovation (AceraEI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that partners with teachers, public schools and district leaders to cultivate a love of learning through student choice, voice, agency and hands-on STEAM learning. By offering support and customizable and scalable programs, we form partnerships that lead to long-term success: highly engaged students who experience the joy of learning—and who become inspired to tackle the challenges of our changing world.

AceraEI offers programs and curricula that: leverage technology as a tool through programming, electronics and digital arts; use hands on exploration to learn about cutting edge science; encourage students to be designers and innovators and to exert choice and voice in their learning. AceraEI offers modules in creative computing, life sciences, mindfulness, and student voice and gives teachers ongoing support to facilitate these modules.

AceraEI mentors provide in-person training for our project-based STEAM modules. These hands-on lessons are flexible, and can serve as enriching supplements to your school curriculum. They can also function in other formal and informal learning areas, including arts, sciences and tech classrooms, family engagement events or out-of-school-time programming.

Teachers who train with AceraEI report:

increased confidence in constructing open-ended, high-engagement opportunities for their students;
increased confidence in teaching programming, robotics, coding and electronics-- highly relevant subject areas for students where many teachers today have little exposure;
increased student exposure and interest in STEAM topics;
an overall increase in student engagement, curiously and joy in learning

"Acera's video production module is a great value for educators. The facilitator Linwood has the right mix of professional video skills and classroom savvy to lead an effective workshop for educators. In this workshop I learned my way around an excellent free video editing software program and was already on my way to editing and producing my first video. In a short period of time we were able to build skills and convince to use the software and introduce students to it!"

Alyssa T., K-12 Educator

AceraEI's STEM Challenges increase access to STEM in low-income communities.

Schools want more STEM learning but lack the resources and time. AceraEI has developed a month-long program public schools can implement to engage students and families in STEM. Through our STEM Challenge, we focus on:

increasing access in low-income schools for hands-on experimenting with engaging engineering and scientific explorations, stoking creativity, critical thinking, curiosity and career pathways;
supporting the development of the strategies and habits of mind of scientists, engineers, problem solvers and innovators that serve students through their lives;
increasing family-school connections leveraging STEM learning through a series of high engagement activities for caregivers and their children to do together.

For more information on AceraEI, please contact Sarah Zuckerman, Director at sarahz@aceraschool.org.

Acera Education Innovation (AceraEI)

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Acera Education Innovation (AceraEI)

Partnering to Transform Public Schools