The COVID-19 crisis has changed many aspects of American society, and perhaps none more than public education. While more than 56 million students should be enrolled in the nation’s public and private K-12 schools, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, huge numbers of those students in every state are still being forced to learn from home…Read More
Confluence Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, has been using Acellus for four years to recognize the quality in its educational programs. It has been able to utilize Acellus to see how students are reviewing new models of learning brought forward by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
Students need STEM — and a strong STEM learning background will carry them from high school to a high-tech workforce…Read the full article by Dr. Roger Billings.
Robotics are coming to life in third-grade classrooms at Romero School in Santa Nella, where students are being introduced to the basics of coding…Full Article
This online education program, developed in KC, gets credit for preventing dropouts. Educators say it’s a “game changer.” It’s in more than 2,600 schools across the country, used by about a million students and adding more all the time… Full Article
In the wake of COVID-19, online learning has become a hot-button issue, and some institutions like Acellus Academy in Kansas City, Missouri, are getting positive reviews from the parents of their students. The online private school offers instruction for kindergarten through 12th grades, and the Acellus Education System is used in thousands of schools… Full article
Teachers at Baker High School will join those at Eagle Cap Innovative High School in relying on the Acellus online learning platform to help bring lessons to their students through comprehensive distance learning this fall… Full article
The current teacher evaluation model may not be as motivational as it is intended to be, and Dr. Roger Billings is a proponent of a new way to monitor and evaluate teachers and the motivation levels of their students. Full article
It’s been two years since Fisher traded in public school for home school. “I discovered Acellus through a web search, and the more I read about it, the more I liked it,” said Fisher, who authored a blog about his experience. Full article
At last week’s School Board meeting, Assistant Principal Jake Lynch told the trustees they were able to get the program up and running September 8 and have 124 enrolled in the program. He said feedback from students and parents has been very positive…Read the full article
Dallas County Schools has a new high-tech tool at its disposal — to engage students in the areas of math — science — and technology. School officials say new Acellus STEM labs have been installed at schools across the district…
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Nordonia Hills School District is in its second full year of piloting Acellus STEM in Rushwood Elementary and now anticipates bringing it to the other two K-4 schools, Ledgeview and Northfield elementary schools in Macedonia and Northfield Center respectively…Full Article
Paintsville Independent School District is adding Acellus to the High School curriculum to give students more opportunities to be Career & College ready…Full Article
WBRC FOX6 News features students working on the Acellus STEM 10 Coding Labs at Jonesboro Elementary school in Bessemer City, Alabama, where students are “coding their way out of poverty…” Full Video
From flying cars to code-teaching robots, here are some of the coolest technologies, gadgets, and application that made their debut at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. It was exciting to see educational innovator Acellus officially unveil STEM-10, a ten year coding course, at CES 2018. Full Article
The Acellus STEM-10 Coding Course and Robot have been selected as one of the best products at CES 2018 by TWICE, producer of the Official CES Daily. Full Article
See the next generation of consumer technology innovations at Eureka Park. Acellus STEM-10 Initiative featured on CESTV. Full Video
Dr. Billings created Acellus to use the capabilities of the computer to efficiently deliver educational material to students and then capture student responses for analysis by courseware developers. Acellus delivers video lessons to students, who progress at their own pace. Once students have viewed a lesson, they are given problems that reinforce the concept of the lesson. Full Article
Acellus has launched a major initiative to teach young students how to code. The Acellus STEM-10 initiative is a 10-year course in coding. It starts with students in the third grade, adding complexity each year until a student graduates from high school as a certified programmer ready to enter the work place.
School District 148 is one of the first school districts in Illinois to have the Acellus STEM Robotics Labs. The school system is looking forward to implementing the labs District wide.
Alonso S. Perales Elementary is one of three Edgewood schools participating in the Acellus STEM/Robotics Lab curriculum. Edgewood ISD is the only district within Bexar County to have this state of the art equipment. Our amazing Acellus/STEM/Robotics teacher, Mr. Gilbert Rodriguez not only works with students during the day, but also sponsors our Robotics after school club….The program is designed to prepare scholars for STEM careers through real world applications. Students learn to program a dancing robot called the Cellus Bot. Students are first introduced to basic block code to understand how simple commands are connected. The basic principles will launch students to understand more advanced programming languages.