Participating Exhibitors at 2011 ACE Annual Conference
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ACTIVE Life, Inc.
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ACTIVE Life will be showcasing ACE Sites that are utilizing the family engagement tools and resources provided by ACTIVE Life as they make “healthy the norm” in their communities. |
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American Robotics Academy
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American Robotics provides Lego robotics classes. |
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Art In History, Inc.
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Art In History, Inc. has hands-on, brain-based projects that utilize pottery artifact replicas of ancient artifacts as an engagement tool into the standards-based (TEKS) curriculum. |
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BOOST Collaborative
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The BOOST Collaborative is committed to creating opportunities for change in educational and social services agencies serving youth in the out-of-school time hours. We support out-of-school time professionals through quality professional development opportunities, program and resource development, building community partnerships, promoting the importance of quality out-of-school time programming, opportunities to share promising practices, and a variety of consulting services. |
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Children’s Learning Institute, UT Health Science Center, Houston
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The Texas School Ready! Project supports the learning of at-risk 3 and 4-year olds across Texas. The professional development activities, resources and ongoing support to grantees helps ensure high quality services to needy children. |
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Every Monday Matters
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You Matter curriculum – K-12 service learning, character building curriculum, Educators Appreciation Program and Corporate Social Responsibilities programs. |
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Girlstart
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Girlstart offers STEM programs (after-school) for 4 -8th grade girls all over Central Texas. |
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Gourmet Learning
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Gourmet Learning’s Lesson Maker for Reading, Math, and Science provides complete resources for teachers and students that actively engages students in their learning processes. |
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Institute of Texan Cultures
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The Institute of Texan Cultures is the museum of The University of Texas at San Antonio. The museum develops online and in-classroom resources for educators including Discovery Kits and Electronic Learning Expeditions, and each year it welcomes thousands of students from colleges and universities, elementary, middle, and high schools, home school programs, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and after-school programs. |
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Kaplan Early Learning Company
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Kaplan Early Learning Company is a leader in the field of early care and education; we bring to market innovative curriculums, cutting edge assessments, teacher resource materials and valuable professional development opportunities to early childhood and elementary school educators, caregivers and parents around the world. |
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Latinitas
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Latinitas provides a dynamic media and technology curriculum for girls. Our workshops and teacher toolkit offer culturally relevant activities to enrich students’ media literacy and competency. |
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Lintor Make-A-Book, Inc.
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Lintor offers affordable, easy-to-use student publishing materials that allow students of all ages to create professional looking hard cover books…in minutes! |
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Scholastic, Inc.
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Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, has a corporate mission supported through all of its divisions of helping children around the world to read and learn. Recognizing that literacy is the cornerstone of a child's intellectual, personal and cultural growth, for over 87 years, Scholastic has created quality products and services that educate, entertain and motivate children and are designed to help enlarge their understanding of the world around them. |
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“Shake Up, Wake Up, Move Up!” Parent Program
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We will provide information regarding “Shake Up, Wake Up, Move Up!” a bilingual parent development workshop series and its complementary staff development workshops. |
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Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
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The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts will have information on saving and planning for college. |
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Texas Parks and Wildlife
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Texas Parks and Wildlife has a variety of resources from training for providers to artifacts and equipment. We will demonstrate and display some of these resources. |
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TxPOST (Texas Partnership for Out-of-School-Time)
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In 2010, a group of professionals from the non-profit, governmental, public education, and university sectors created the Texas Partnership for Out-of-School Time (TXPOST) for the purpose of establishing a network of youth serving organizations to increase the quality and availability of out-of-school-time programs. With committees that focus on Policy & Advocacy, Partnerships, Fundraising, and Communications, TXPOST is actively working to engage individuals interesting in making a difference for the youth of Texas. |
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Texas State Aquarium
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Texas State Aquarium offers fun educational onsite and outreach programs. |
