Professional development:

AceraEI STEAM Institute

April 26, 2023
4:30 - 6:30 PM

For K-12 educators, administrators, support staff. No prior experience necessary.

Choose from one of six different STEAM integration sessions

Participants will have the opportunity to choose one of six different hands-on STEAM integration sessions and learn how to incorporate these skills into their own classrooms. Each session will focus on teaching a new tech tool or approach and how it could be integrated into curricula across subject areas.

There is a standard set of skills that applies to every Maker module we designed at AceraEI: Storytelling, Design Thinking, Systems Thinking, Creative Thinking, Interdisciplinary Thinking, Perspective Taking, and Sustainability.

Potential sessions will include:

  • Storytelling through Coding in Scratch Jr for grades k-2 (Adrienne) 
  • Storytelling through Coding in Scratch for grades 3-6 (Danny) 
  • Design Thinking and Coding in p5 for grades 5-12 (Irina) 
  • Electronic Arts for grades 3-8 (Sarah – Alison, Jonathan)
  • Humanities and VR for grades 9-12 (Vered)
  • Film Editing for grades 5-12 (Linwood)
Materials: Computer; we will provide everything else.

 

Program information

When: April 26, 2023, 4:30 – 6:30 PM, dinner served!
Register by April 24, 2023.

Where: The Acera School
5 Lowell Avenue
Winchester MA 01890

Program fee: $20
Register by April 21st for a chance to win $100 VISA gift card

Contact: Irina Uk
irina@aceraschool.org
781.729.3489

*AceraEI is an approved DESE Professional Development Provider in Curriculum & Instruction – General, and Science and Technology/Engineering

Program instructors

Irina Uk, Education and Innovation Program Manager​

Irina is a graduate of the Technology, Innovation, and Education program at Harvard. She has been teaching Math and Creative Computing in formal and informal settings for the last 14 years. She also has worked in EdTech and is very passionate about making educational technologies accessible to teachers and students.

Sarah Zuckerman, Director of Education and Innovation​

Sarah is a graduate of the Arts in Education program at Harvard. Prior to her work in education leadership and program design, she was an art teacher in K-12 classrooms for 10 years, and has received numerous awards for her work, including Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Urban Scholars Fellowship and the Sontag Prize for Urban Education, and has had works published by Education Leadership, Ed Week, and Americans for the Arts.

Program details

AceraEI is an approved DESE Professional Development Provider in Curriculum & Instruction – General, and Science and Technology / Engineering.

Fee: $20
Register by April 21st for a chance to win $100 VISA gift card

Acera: The Massachusetts School of Science, Creativity, and Leadership is a K-12 school founded in 2010 to offer hands-on, STEAM-rich learning in an individualized and question-driven environment. All of AceraEI’s curricula have been developed and pilot-tested with Acera students. Visit the school online at aceraschool.org

Acera Education Innovation – AceraEI – is our public outreach division. AceraEI partners with teachers and school/district leaders to cultivate a love of learning in students through choice, voice, agency, and hands-on STEAM learning in public schools.

Contact us

The Acera School
5 Lowell Avenue
Winchester MA 01890
Phone: 781.729.3489

Irina Uk
irina@aceraschool.org