Introducing the 2021-22 ACE Blog Team
This year, a group of teachers in ACE 27 will be giving us regular glimpses into their experiences as teachers and community members. We’ll see snapshots of their classrooms and...
ACE Teaching Fellows Blog
Snapshots from an ACE Teacher's Classroom
Celeste Arellano is in her second year teaching fourth grade at Saints Cyril & Methodius Catholic School in Corpus Christi, Texas. Before school started, Celeste gave us a tour of...
ACE Summer 2021 Recap
When prompted to “share a recap of ACE summer” for this blog post, the repressed theatre kid inside me instinctively started singing “Seasons of Love” from the musical Rent: How...
Taking the Long View
A huge lesson I learned from both the ACE Ambassador program and my first year of teaching at Little Flower School in Mobile is that the following prayer, written in...
Community Retreats Offer ACE Teachers Time for Reflection and Rejuvenation
The past two weeks, the ACE community has celebrated a joyous return to one of the traditions that marks the ACE experience: community retreat. Since March 2020, the pieces of...
The Fun of Teaching
I love acting like a child. If one of the love languages was goofing around, playing pretend, and making funny faces, that would be mine. Not a day goes by...
The Sacred Spaces of ACE JAX
The people make the place and ACE Jacksonville has a lot of sacred spaces for me. When moving to an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar folks, we create safe havens together...
The Great Bridgebuilding of God
"Catch only what you've thrown yourself, all is mere skill and little gain; but when you're suddenly the catcher of a ball thrown by an eternal partner with accurate and...
Notre Dame Catholicism: A Protestant's story
Weston is a current Notre Dame senior who will be serving as a member of ACE 28 in Tampa, Florida. The following reflection was recently published in The Observer. I...
The People We Are and the Work We Do
"I watch what I do to see what I believe." - Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ There's a fine line between being "hungry" and being an obsessive sourpuss. Until very recently...