Choosing Joy
Sometimes we have teachers that touch our lives in ways we only discover once we are well past their class in our lives. Those teachers can be few and far...
ACE Teaching Fellows Blog
The Aspect of Love
"You're an ACE teacher?!" one student exclaimed during a brief chat after her soccer game. "All the ACE teachers are so nice!" I've met most of the people who deserve...
Forming Educators from a Distance
At the beginning of 2020, who would have foreseen that this would become the year of Zoom calls? Our day-to-day lives have been transformed by the need to social distance...
Leadership in Teaching and Coaching
As a high school soccer and middle school volleyball coach, I've had to talk about leadership to several students, so I've spent some time pondering this question: What makes a...
Finding Hope from a Distance
I've grown accustomed to a new norm as a teacher: sleeping in. Instead of my usual 6 a.m. alarm, since March 16th my alarm has gone off at 7:45, with...
Zoom with a Dash of Salt: Community Dinners in the Age of Quarantine
"We had this awesome house reunion on Zoom," says Iona (née Hughan) Popa, who was a member of ACE 21 in Tampa. "Those relationships I know that ACE has deeply...
The Remaining Pages
Joe DiSipio is a member of ACE 25 in Sacramento, where he taught fifth grade for the last two years at Saint John Vianney School in Rancho Cordova, California. When...
A Time for Everything
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and...
What Will You Do?
When my school first shut down, my first thoughts were of all the things I could no longer do: see my kids, hang out with friends, or coach lacrosse. These...
Finding New Blessings
This was supposed to be a "victory tour." These post-spring break weeks were supposed to be a wonderful celebratory string of "lasts" at Mount St. Mary Catholic High School, a...