Video: We ♥ Acera!
“We love Acera!” In this Thanksgiving video, students, faculty, and staff share what they love about being at Acera. Do you love Acera, too? Consider making a gift to our Annual Fund campaign, and tell your friends about… Read More
Category: AceraBlogPost, from the classroom, Student Voices, Uncategorized | November 30, 2020 | kerry
Registration for Acera’s 2020 Summer Camp is open!
Unleash your curiosity…follow your passion…invent your future. Summer 2020 camps are here! Acera is offering more than 75 half day and full day camps for kids, including: Fun and engaging classes for 4-7 year olds, like Carnival Design,… Read More
Category: Acera News, Blog, Student Voices | January 10, 2020 | kerry
Creativity on display at Acera’s Museum Walk
Acera’s Museum Walk is an opportunity for kids to share the creative risks they’ve taken. It’s never about perfection; it’s about celebrating the act of trying something new and finding your voice!
Category: AceraBlogPost, Blog, Student Voices, Uncategorized | December 14, 2018 | kerry
Survivor: The Goldfish Edition
Math comes alive for Acera Students in Mr. Michael’s life sciences lab, where students play a math game to understand sustainability in ecosystems.
Category: AceraBlogPost, Blog, from the classroom, Student Voices, Students at work | December 6, 2018 | kerry
Acera Student #Walkout
It’s the movement of their generation, and Acera students are on it: On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, a group of Upper Elementary and Middle School students walked out of school for 17 minutes, occupied a corner on Cross… Read More
Category: Acera News, Blog, Student Voices | March 30, 2018 | Acera
Student Opinion: How Augmented Reality can Revolutionize Education
By: Yash A. Yash is a middle schooler at Acera, this blog post is part of his tech elective What is Augmented Reality? Augmented Reality can be used for many different purposes. One of those purposes is for education….. Read More
Category: Blog, Student Voices | April 10, 2017 | Acera
Can’t Stop The Feelin’!
Sometimes, all it takes is one student, one idea, and a little tenacity, and you get a whole community to come together and discover each other in new and wonderful ways. When Jackson Gamache (Ms. Nic’s class) first… Read More
Category: AceraBlogPost, Student Voices | December 16, 2016 | Acera
At Acera, we believe a school’s success can be measured far beyond its standardized test scores. How happy are its students? Do they feel a sense of purpose at school? Are they developing a capacity for perspective taking and problem solving? Are teachers using evidence-based approaches to pedagogy? Acera’s Education Innovation team is working to change how we measure education to include students’ core capacities, faculty’s use of evidence-based practices, a positive school culture, and standards and achievement.
Tech Hub enables students to emerge as community-minded technologists able to solve problems to benefit the whole school. More a philosophy than a place, Tech Hub can start as simply a cart in a cafeteria with one student fired up to be a knowledgable, technically skillful community member. Concurrently developing emotional intelligence skills and a wide array of technological abilities, Tech Hub members model and spread an attitude of fearlessness at using STEM tools to solve real problems.
Small children can understand big ideas, and computer science is no exception. Acera’s hands-on “Computers and Me” curriculum introduces early elementary students to computer science concepts, and is one example of many creative ways computational thinking and technical fluency can be developed throughout K-12 education, starting at age 5. Pilot-tested and ready to translate for adoption by public schools, these computer science learning approaches help students become facile and fearless.
What if math classes are organized based on what each student is ready to learn, rather than by age? This f
How can educators unleash the initiative and creativity inherent in all children? 