Programs

Classroom Closet

The Classroom Closet is a county-wide store providing a large variety of free supplies to full-time classroom and specialty teachers, who teach with ABSS or an Alamance County Charter school. A small membership fee allows each teacher to shop once each nine weeks, four times a year at no cost for supplies. We are seeking businesses to help stock the store. If you have product or would like to give a donation please contact our office.

Volunteers Needed : We need volunteers ASAP to help with the CLASSROOM CLOSET, stockers, sorters, and helpers.
If you would like to help please call 438-2054 or 438-2027.

MBRACE – Tutoring and Mentoring

ACE is looking for volunteers to tutor students in the Alamance-Burlington School System grade levels (K-12).  We are also in need of Lunch Buddies!  If you are interested in sharing your time to help students achieve success, contact Suzan Bell, Director of Volunteerism, at (336) 438-2054 for more information on training and volunteering for ACE.

Education Summit

Alamance Citizens for Education hosts an annual education summit. The purpose of the summit is to rally support for public education. Past topics have covered the updates from ABSS, examining the need for global readiness for our students, and  hearing  from another community who have successfully engaged its community for public education.

Shadow A Principal

ACE mobilizes Alamance County's business leaders from across the county to experience first-hand the accomplishments of and challenges facing our county's public schools. The goal of the event is for participants to translate their one-day experience into an understanding of the role of school administrators; which in turn, will help nurture a continued relationship between the business and the school(s). Half of the day is spent on campus and the second half at the business leader’s office. Join this valuable experience. Volunteer !

ARTS Grants for the Performing Arts

Stage Struck is a showcase of the diverse, wonderful and creative talent of Alamance-Burlington students. More that 280 Alamance-Burlington students participated in ACE's 2008 Stage Struck. Designed not only as a fundraiser for ACE but it allows ACE to give back through an ARTS grant program.

Community Forums

ACE hosts public forums on relevant topics that affect education in our county. Topics have included Gang Awareness, Health and Obesity, Internet Safety and Candidate forums.

Community Collaborative Partnerships

ACE collaborates with other local agencies and non-profits, educational institutions, and Alamance-Burlington Schools to support and address issues that affect education.

 

Projects

ACE Educational Minutes

ACE provides statistics and facts to our schools about education. Each athletic department announces these facts at sporting events. This supports ACE’s community awareness initiative.

Literary Project

ACE sponsors a literacy project through the Times-News Newspapers in Education department. The project is published in the Times-News, which has an average of 26,000 newspapers going out to the general population and an average of 1,200 newspapers going directly to the schools. Copies are made available to teachers and students at no charge.

Dictionary Project

The DICTIONARY PROJECT is designed to aid third grade teachers in their goal to see all students leave at the end of the year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers. ACE’s purpose is to provide all third grade students in the community with their own personal dictionary. The dictionary is the children’s to keep, so they can take it with them and use it throughout their school career.