Location: Los Angeles, CA
School Type: Microschool
Grades Served: K-12
Students Served: 20
Superpowers:
- Partnership with nontraditional learning models (medical and mental health sectors)
- Trauma-informed practices
- A competency-based model
About
Ellemercito Academy (Los Angeles, CA) is a non-profit using first-generation teachers to serve high needs K-12 learners. They offer real-world, highly personalized, and transformative education with an experiential, trauma-informed, and holistic learning approach.
They focus on: high-needs learners, first gen teachers, real-world, highly personalized, and transformative education. Each student’s academic and social-emotional development holds equal value and an experiential, trauma-informed, and holistic learning approach is taken to meet individual needs. Educating students both in a relevant and meaningful manner coupled with an engaging, project and place-based model.
“I was looking for a place where my daughter’s learning would not be limited by her age or grade, but where she could be guided to her own heights. We found that, and beyond, at Ellemercito Academy. Here, her questions create discussions and lessons, her interests are taken seriously and incorporated into her studies, and nature is an integral part of the curriculum. We are so blessed to have found this gem”
Bassalla Simba
Here’s what our grantees are up to…
ASU Global Prep + Ellemercito Academy Partnership
A cooperative initiative began between Ellemercito Academy and ASU. This partnership combines the strengths of ASU, the largest public university in the U.S., with Ellemercito Academy’s pioneering microschool model to introduce a new product specifically designed to meet the unique needs of microschools. The collaboration emphasizes a mutual focus on innovation, sustainability, and global impact, enhancing personalized learning pathways and broadening the reach to students seeking new and diverse educational models.
Microschooling Reaching Far & Wide
Ellemercito Academy was recently chosen as fellows for the ASU Prep Microschool Entrepreneur Fellowship. Additionally, Founder Lizette Valles recently contributed to the global discourse on educational freedom through a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Ms. Farida Shaheed.