ACE-STEM News & Spotlight
OELA Grantee Spotlight
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) featured ACE-STEM work in their social media pages.
OELA provides national leadership to help ensure that English Learners and immigrant students attain English proficiency and achieve academic success. We are beyond excited to be featured on OELA’s social media!
Welcome Cohort 2 Teachers!
ACE-STEM Cohort 2 officially started! The ACE-STEM team hosted an orientation session for the newly joined Cohort 2 teachers on Thursday, August 15th.
The Cohort 2 teachers met their PWCS mentor coaches during the welcome session. The ACE-STEM team introduced the course registration and academic advising information.
MFTP Call for Proposals
We are inviting proposals for projects/events at the classroom or school level that promote multilingual family engagement through valuing the use of home languages for literacy learning and development.
The proposal submission portal will be open soon. Please visit the Call for Proposals page for more information.
Cohort 2 Saturday Workshop 1
We are pleased to host our virtual Saturday Workshop 1 for ACE-STEM Cohort 2 on Saturday, September 28th, from 9 am to 12 pm.
Dr. Lisa Dorner, a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and a Faculty Fellow at the Cambio Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia, will be the speaker for SW1.
ACE-STEM Mission
Throughout the 5-year project, ACE-STEM will serve 60 PWCS teachers in K-8 classrooms to build competence as educators with strong knowledge and expertise in designing instruction that promotes deep content learning and language and literacy development simultaneously. Additionally, extensive engagement opportunities using innovative digital education tools will build PWCS teachers’ capacity for teaching with technology. Professional learning opportunities and family engagement events will be planned as an overarching approach to ensure an integrative and cohesive continuum model of equitable EL education that is in alignment with culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogies.
Research Grant
ACE-STEM is a National Professional Development (NPD) Grant Project funded by the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), U.S. Department of Education (Fall 2021 – Summer 2026). ACE-STEM aims to support the education of English learners by providing quality professional development for English Learner (EL) educators.
Partnership
In partnership with Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS), George Mason University’s ACE-STEM Project Team will provide a rigorous, evidence-based, and innovative PD program to enhance participating teachers’ content-integrated instruction with a focus on STEM. PWCS is the second largest school district in the Commonwealth of Virginia with increasingly diverse EL populations.
