History

MAEC is an education non-profit working to foster positive learning environments where every child reaches their full potential. We have a 30+ year record of providing high-quality technical assistance and training to states, districts, and schools to increase access, educational opportunities, and academic achievement for all students, especially students from diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, socioeconomic, and linguistic backgrounds, and different gender/gender identities. 

For over two decades, MAEC was the long-time home of a regional technical assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Through our recent EAC, the Center for Education Equity (CEE), we served 15 states and territories and employed an innovative, continuous improvement and equity-centered approach to address issues related to race, gender/gender identity, national origin, and religion.  MAEC partnered with schools, LEAs, SEAs, community stakeholders, and families to improve and sustain the systemic capacity of public education to increase outcomes for all students.

MAEC currently operates two federally-funded Statewide Family Engagement Centers, the Collaborative Action for Family Engagement (CAFE), in the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania and the Consortium for Family Engagement Across Maine (CEFAM). CAFE and CEFAM assist states in building sustainable infrastructure to support high impact, culturally responsive and healthy family, school, and community engagement (FSCE). MAEC is recognized as a national champion for FSCE. Our President, Susan Shaffer, is the co-founder of the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement (NAFSCE), and we were the lead partners for the Council for Chief State School Officers’ (CCSSO) Consortium on State Family Engagement. MAEC is a partner for the Center for Family Math and the Preservice Consortium for Educator Preparation in Family Engagement.