Lasting Change Happens from Within
EI partners directly with educators, principals, and districts to spark the cultural and instructional transformations that move entire schools forward. Our approach builds capacity, strengthens leadership, and equips schools with the tools they need to create environments where every child can thrive.
Our whole-school transformation approach includes:
Whole School Multi Year Transformation
Long-term partnerships that support schools through the full arc of change, from vision-setting to sustained implementation.
Innovation Fellowships
Programs that develop teacher-leaders and change agents who guide and steward innovation from within their own school communities.
Professional
Learning
Hands-on, joyful, classroom-grounded professional learning that models the very kinds of experiences we want students to have.
Cutting Edge STEM Exploration
Experiences that bring experimentation, creativity, and real-world problem solving into everyday learning.
Coaching and Leadership Support
Customized coaching for principals and teams that strengthens structures, systems, and practices to ensure that change endures.
As schools adopt these tools, student engagement rises, absenteeism decreases, and classrooms transform into places where children feel curiosity, belonging, and the freedom to explore their potential.
Tools to Transform Schools
Through multi-year, whole-school transformation partnerships, EI works alongside principals and teams of change-agent teachers to adopt and adapt our Tools to Transform Schools:
Each school innovates together to adopt and adapt practices and structures that best fit its students, culture, and community. Each year they set goals, build new capacities, and deepen their ownership of the work. We support them from initiation to launch to leadership, ensuring that change is not only inspirational but sustainable.
The outcome is profound. Schools experience a mindset shift that unlocks student engagement and restores purpose to learning. Classrooms become vibrant ecosystems of creativity, curiosity, and rigorous problem-solving. Students discover the joy of meaningful learning and begin to see themselves as innovators, thinkers, and creators.
Teachers rediscover their calling. They feel valued and empowered to design learning experiences that truly feed their students, grounded in standards yet brought to life through hands-on, personalized, deeply human instruction.
We refuse to give up on public schools. And every day, district by district, school by school, classroom by classroom, we are proving that transformation is not only possible but already happening.
Our approach is built around evidence-based pedagogical practices and school cultures that result in student growth, well-being, and authentic engagement.
EI has trained more than 800 educators and leaders across 9 countries, reaching 25,000 students through teacher training and 2,000 students with deep impact in partner schools.
How We Do It
Transforming a school requires more than workshops or curriculum. It requires a structured, multi-year approach that builds shared belief, shifts daily practice, and embeds new systems that last. AceraEI partners with schools through a three-year journey that equips teachers, strengthens leadership, and creates classrooms where students are engaged, curious, and thriving. By the end, schools take full ownership of the model, ensuring sustainable change long after our partnership ends.
A 3-Year
Whole-School Transformation Journey
Watch Acera @work
You Quantified
This case study highlights how McAuliffe students engage in hands-on STEM learning through EI programs. By exploring measurement, data, and real-world problem solving, students build confidence as scientists and thinkers while making their learning visible.
Catalyzing School Change:
This video explains how EI partners with schools to expand what learning can look like. Through stories from educators and students, including students sharing why they love AceraEI experiences, it illustrates how innovative practices take root in everyday classrooms.
Students Learn to Measure
their Own Brainwaves:
Students use neuroscience tools to explore attention, focus, and learning in real time. This classroom story shows how EI brings advanced scientific experiences into schools, helping students understand their own minds and take ownership of their learning.