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I love teaching religion. When I learned I would be teaching religion in a 5th-grade classroom with a majority of non-Catholic students, I wondered what it would be like. My...

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Mi Casa Es Su Casa

HEY READERS, this is ACE Brownsville, welcome to our crib! To introduce myself, I am your host, Maddie Schlehuber, and here in ACE Brownsville, we live in a charming home...

A Prayer of Thanksgiving: Finding Gratitude in Our Daily Lives

Once a week, our fourth-grade class celebrates the people, places, or events for which we are thankful. Oftentimes on these days, we hear of the gratitude for student friendships, cousins...

From Student to Teacher: My Path to ACE

I have always loved history, but it wasn’t until I was sitting in my world history class freshman year of high school, watching my favorite teacher share his love of...

Passing the Torch: How My English Teachers Inspired My Desire to Teach

For years, when people have asked me why I wanted to become a teacher, my first response has been, “Because I had great English teachers in high school.” My motivation...

Lead, Follow, or Get out of the Way

As I began my 33rd year in Catholic schools this past year, I searched for a professional development relationship that would breathe new life into my tired mind and body...

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Being Authentically YOU: Habits of Wellness

As we reflect on Mental Health Awareness Month, the Program for Inclusive Education (PIE) believes that educators need to be intentional about their own wellness. Thus, PIE offers the following...

Ghost renderings from Mr. Diggins' middle school students

Do Ghosts Really Exist? Embracing questions about the faith in the classroom

With Halloween and Día de los Muertos just around the corner, ghost stories and scary movies have been regular points of discussion at San Miguel Middle School in Tulsa, Oklahoma...

Spanish Language School & Quito Ecuador

The first morning waking up in a bed that was not my own, in a home with its own smells, and in a foreign country hundreds of miles from anything...

How Can We Keep from Singing?

During my first week of teaching religion, I like to go through different types of prayers with my class. I know that they are used to the canonical prayers that...

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