March 20, 2020AceraEI offers free STEAM content during distance learningFor schools, teachers, and parents looking for free educational content during this period of distance learning, AceraEI is offering downloadable lessons for…
March 17, 2020Five steps to successful remote learningBy Courtney Dickinson As schools nation-wide quickly transition to remote learning in response to COVID-19, many administrators, teachers, students and parents are…
March 14, 2020Parents as coaches: Tactics to support your child during remote schoolingBy Courtney Dickinson @CourtneyofAcera What are best-in-class teaching tactics you can adopt – as the in-person adult – now that so many…
March 13, 2020Acera’s 10-hour flip turn to remote learningBy Courtney Dickinson At 10 pm Wednesday, March 11, Acera School’s board voted unanimously to move to a remote education model, effective…
January 28, 2020Our 2019 Annual ReportBy Courtney Dickinson We are celebrating the ten year mark of our school! I write this sitting in the middle of our…
November 12, 2019Measuring what matters at schoolBy Courtney Dickinson What indicates a school’s success? Is it simply a standardized test score, like MCAS? It isn’t. The decades-long standardized…
November 1, 2019Inside, Outside: Linking in-class content to real world issues and innovationsBy Courtney Dickinson @CourtneyofAcera Jake, age 13, sits and experiments with circuitry and Arduino, figuring out how to connect and code in…
August 13, 2019Top five free actions to make schools better, and students happierBy Courtney Dickinson Kids often dread their return to school in the fall, and we – as adults – let them. Societally,…
July 23, 2019Courtney Dickinson on what’s possible in educationCourtney Dickinson sits down with Allen Saakyan of Simulation Series to discuss why she founded Acera, her 10 Tools to Transform Schools,…
May 23, 2019Creating a sense of purpose at schoolBy Courtney Dickinson I read an insightful piece in the Boston Globe this week on the link between happiness and having a…