2022-2023
Acera teacher is a 2023 Classroom Hero
September 13, 2023 – Winchester Patch
Fall STEM activities for kids
September 10, 2023 – Boston Tech Mom
Acera students earn top scores in national math competition
June 13, 2023 – Winchester Daily Times
Acera students awarded at Model UN Conference
May 17, 2023 – Winchester Patch
Missituk teachers experiment with Maker Education
May 16, 2023 – Medford Patch
STEM Activities for Kids this Fall
September 2022 – Boston Tech Mom
Acera Enrichment Programs awarded “Best of Boston”
August 2022 – Boston Magazine
Winchester students showcase passion projects at Acera School
June 21, 2022 – Winchester Daily Times
Local student awarded at Model UN Conference
April 12, 2022 – The Cricket
Acera School serves as model for Brazil Ministers of Education
April 11, 2022 – Winchester Patch
Designing Public Policy for Creative School Systems
April 8, 2022 – MIT Media Lab
2021
- How do you search for life in the universe? Use clues from microbes!
November 4, 2021 – Science Friday - Teachers participate in year-long AceraEI training
September 30, 2021 – Chelsea Record - Building boats is summer fun for Acera School campers
July 22, 2021 – Medford Transcript - Boat-building students launch vessels in Horn Pond
July 17, 2021 – Winchester Star - Acera students design and build computer
June 25, 2021 – Danvers Herald Citizen - AceraEI, Medford Public Schools offer training to science teachers
June 25, 2021 – Medford Transcript - Acera students lead Black Lives Matter walkout
June 1, 2021 – Winchester Daily Times - Acera students recognized at Model UN conference
May 12, 2021 – Winchester Patch - 2021 STEM Summer Camps
March 24, 2021 – Boston Tech Mom - Acera has virtual camps for April Vacation
March 8, 2021 – Winchester Patch - Acera students earn Honor Roll awards in Noetic National Math Contest
February 3, 2021 – Brookline TAB
2020
- Winter 2021 online STEM programs for kids
December 22, 2020 – Boston Tech Mom - Touch Wood: How schools around the world approach woodwork
December 21, 2020 – Nursery World - Acera students study, clean Aberjona River
November 17, 2020 – Winchester Star - Acera teacher joins NPR’s Science Friday
November 16, 2020 – Eagle Tribune - What it’s like to be a science teacher in a pandemic
October 23, 2020 – Science Friday - Acera’s Hirsch named educator fellow for NPR’s Science Friday
October 20, 2020 – Winchester Star - Online STEM event for kids October–December
September 28, 2020 – Boston Tech Mom - Try It Out: Acera offers after school classes for $10/day Oct. 26-30
September 25, 2020 – Winchester Patch - Acera alum launches nonprofit to refurbish, donate used computers
August 31, 2020 – Lexington Minuteman - Fall 2020 Online STEM Classes for Kids and Teens
August 27, 2020 – Boston Tech Mom - Acera offers hands-on virtual after school classes
August 20, 2020 – Daily Times Chronicle - Private schools, charters, moved forward with remote curriculum
July 23, 2020 – Commonwealth Magazine - 2020 Online STEM Summer Camps
May 19, 2020 – Boston Tech Mom - What to look for in a remote summer camp
May 19, 2020 – Winchester Patch - Boston schools and enrichment programs with live virtual classes
April 20, 2020 – Events Insider Magazine - 10 Netiquette & remote schooling norms every family needs to know
April 16, 2020 – Boston Parents Paper - Winchester teacher building PPE with 3D printer to combat coronavirus
April 10, 2020 – Winchester Star - At home STEM activities for kids
April 9, 2020 – Boston Tech Mom - Remote learning is the new normal. Now what?
April 5, 2020 – PRWeb - Parents as Coaches: Tactics to support your child during remote learning
March 20, 2020 – Boston Parents Paper - Engineering Summer Camps
February 24, 2020 – Boston Tech Mom - Cape Tech teachers take microbiome workshop
January 27, 2020 – Barnstable Patriot - She gave up on public schools that rejected her bold ideas a decade ago. Now she’s back
January 15, 2020 – Hechinger Report
2019
- Acera students participate in day of community service
December 16, 2019 – Winchester Star - Everett High School aims to bring cutting edge science labs to the classroom
November 14, 2019 – Everett Independent - Polymer Project Day at Pyne Arts
October 15, 2019 – Lowell Sun - Boston area STEM activities for kids
October 7, 2019 – Boston Tech Mom - AceraEI secures $50,000 grant for life sciences training
September 25, 2019 – Winchester Patch - Teachers at Pyne Arts School in Lowell stay busy
August 7, 2019 – Lowell Sun
- Boston area STEM activities for kids
July 25, 2019 – Boston Tech Mom - Courtney Dickinson: Schools and education of the future
July 22, 2019 – Simulation Series - Medford teachers attend technology workshop
July 10, 2019 – Medford Transcript - Peabody teachers get training in gene editing
July 2, 2019 – Peabody Patch - Tech companies can work with K-12 schools on real science, STEM
June 13, 2019 – Boston Business Journal - Summer art programs, scholarships, and math
June 7, 2019 – The Boston Globe - Acera student wins Best Delegate at Model UN
June 3, 2019 – The Concord Journal - Acera student hosts town hall on climate change
May 24, 2019 – Winchester Daily Times - Acera Donates CRISPR Kits to Littleton High School
May 1, 2019 – Littleton Independent - Gene editing technology comes to Salem school
April 5, 2019 – The Salem News - Girls Who Code, dragons, and radioactivity
March 15, 2019 – The Boston Globe - Acera Students Participate in Model UN
March 4, 2019 – Winchester Star - Teachers Learn to Reinvent High School Biology
February 16, 2019 – Boston Business Journal - Acera Students Present at LearnLaunch
February 12, 2019 – Concord Journal - STEM Activities for kids: February Roundup
January 27, 2019 – Boston Tech Mom
2011 - 2018
- Lexington Students Showcase IMP Projects
December 18, 2018 – Lexington Minuteman - Geoscientist Visits Acera School in Winchester
December 14, 2018 – Winchester Star - Acera’s Alisha Collins presents at Global Education Conference
November 20, 2018 – Winchester Patch - Acera Students Participate in Model UN Global Leadership Summit
October 18, 2018 – Winchester Star - Meet Courtney Dickinson of Acera
August 21, 2018 – Boston Voyager - International Collaboration Projects Using Technology
January 8, 2018 – Education Week - Learning While Doing at Acera (pdf)
Winter 2017 – Design Museum Magazine - How a gene editing tool went from labs to a middle school classroom
May 2017 – ‘The Pulse’ science radio show on WHYY — and here is an NPR version - What Robots Can Teach Kindergarteners
August 2017 – The Edvocate - Design Squad’s Kid Engineer Episode
Fall 2015 – PBS Kids, filmed at Acera - A portrait of the school’s first year
June 9, 2011 – The Boston Globe - The school’s roots
August 29, 2010 – The Boston Globe - Students at Acera School Tackle World Issues
January 30, 2014 – The Boston Globe - Tufts’ Center for Engineering Education and Outreach brings STEM education to local schools
May 17, 2014 – Daily Tufts - Acera School Announces Move to Winchester
April 1, 2013 – Arlington Patch - Acera private school leaving Melrose
April 2, 2013 – Melrose Wicked Local - Melrose STEM school moving to Winchester this fall
March 29, 2013 – Winchester Wicked Local - Get a peek at Acera elementary students visiting an engineering laboratory, in the Tufts Electrical Engineering Bulletin (pdf, pg 8)
