Alliance for Catholic Education
Riding the April Retreat High
"It's so weird to think we won't see each other for another six weeks." "I know, right?!" I was sitting around a food court table at the Midway airport with...
ACE Teaching Fellows Blog
Welcome Home, ACE 31!
As Catholic schools across the country begin to wrap up the school year, we are thrilled to welcome the 31st cohort (ACE 31) of ACE Teaching Fellows. ACE 31 comprises...
Patron Saints and Growth in Faith
ACE Brownsville is blessed to serve three Catholic schools in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley: Guadalupe Regional Middle School, St. Joseph Academy, and Our Lady of Sorrows School. During my...
Pi Day, Lent, and Full Circle Moments
If you know me, there's a good chance you've heard me talk about full-circle moments. Recently — overlapping with the exact day, two years ago, that I found out I...
Lessons Learned: The Impact of a Handshake on My Path to ACE
One of my first visits to South Bend was to see my brother during his senior year. Like any other Notre Dame fan, my family and I made sure to...
Get Some Rest
Life in ACE is full. Moving to a brand new place to do a brand new job, where you are responsible for planning, delivering, and assessing lessons, creating positive relationships...
Catholic Schools Week: Educating the Heart
As a kid growing up going to Catholic schools, I thought Catholic Schools Week was the best. There was crazy hair day, crazy sock day, and crazy dress-up-as-your-teacher day. There...
From Troublemaker to Teacher Extraordinaire: Meet Eric Budd, ETA
If someone had told teenaged Eric Budd that he would grow up to become a high school teacher, he would have laughed them off. In high school, Eric lived to...
You Can Do Hard Things: Musings from the ACE Marathon
For the last ten years of my life, I have run almost every day. There are large chunks of time lost to injury, sickness, days off, seasons off, etc. But...
Reflections from Vocations Retreat
Each year, recent ACE graduates and second year ACE teachers are invited to join religious men and women for a vocations discernment retreat at the end of the summer. This...