ACE partners with the Andover Public Schools to support innovative, curriculum enhancing, system-wide initiatives that will inspire our students to succeed in facing today’s global challenges.
Andover Coalition for Education (ACE)
Since our launch in November 2005, ACE grants for the Andover schools have exceeded:
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Join ACE on Saturday, October 19th from 10 a.m. to Noon at the Scarecrow Festival Kickoff! Help grow a Pumpkin Patch and join in the Scavenger Hunt fun!
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Recent Highlights
- Granted more than $16,000 to support eight (8) Teaching Innovation Fund Grants in the spring 2024
- Granted almost $18,000 in Fall 2023 to support a Civics for Everyone! grant to expand experiential learning in social studies
- Contributed more than $1MM to Andover Public Schools since ACE’s inception in 2005
- Invested $32,000 in Fall 2022 to support engineering equipment to support student design work in the middle and high school.
- Featured in The Andovers Magazine in April 2022
- Awarded more than $27,000 in 2022 to support fifteen new Teaching Innovation Fund (TIF) grants! The projects span the arts, sciences, literacy, and math.
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April, 2022 – The Andovers Magazine: Hands-On Experiences Across disciplines, innovation grants make class more fun
Andover: Students rush to their seats in Katherine McGonagle's French class. It is truffle day. McGonagle's class at West Middle School in Andover cooks a dish from a French-speaking country once a month. Read More
February 9, 2022, Eagle-Tribune: Parlez-vous chocolate? Immersive lessons bring hands-on element to language class
ANDOVER — Students rushed to their seats Tuesday morning in Katherine McGonagle’s French class. It was truffle day. McGonagle’s class cooks a dish from a French-speaking country once a month. Tuesday they learned about Switzerland and the chocolate truffles the...
2021 Scarecrow Festival Andover TV Video
Andover TV created a wonderful video of this year's Festival.
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Andover Coalition for Education
P.O. Box 1521
Andover, MA 01810