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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...

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Why Holy Angels?

Holy Angels Catholic School is the first whole-school blended learning pilot in a Notre Dame ACE Academy. It is an amazing school with wonderful students, loving families, a rich tradition...

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Motivating a Hunger for Knowledge, Not Grades

In the field of educational psychology, experts have many different theories of motivation. One of my favorites is 'Achievement Goal Theory'. This theory deals with the reasons that people choose...

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Risky Business

During the spring of my second year as an ACE teacher, I interviewed at a school that did not yet exist. I taught my demo lesson to the principal and...

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Blended Learning and Social Justice

Warning: I was a Philosophy major, and old habits die hard. Please indulge my philosophical musings before we jump into more actionable information. At the heart of Christianity lies the...

Mary Pullano ChACE 15 Final Lessons from 2016

3 Final Lessons from 2016

The end of the year 2016 marks the end of my experience of the ACE in Chile teaching program. I have learned so much! Moving to the southern hemisphere turned...

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Creating the Body of Christ

Three months before my 22nd birthday, I did something that I always aspired to do: I earned a degree from my dream school, the University of Notre Dame. I was...