Alliance for Catholic Education
A Lesson Worth Remembering
Something was different as we walked into Dr. Collier's Social Studies Content class during that first ACE summer. He had us sit specifically in columns of five and said that...
ACE Teaching Fellows Blog
Why Hunger Can be a Good Thing in Your School
Feeling hungry is the worst. Like most of us, when I'm hungry, I'm cranky, single-minded, and I usually start talking in caveman/Cookie-Monster-speak: "me want food." There's actually some science behind...
Why Hunger Can be a Good Thing in Your School
Feeling hungry is the worst. Like most of us, when I'm hungry, I'm cranky, single-minded, and I usually start talking in caveman/Cookie-Monster-speak: "me want food." There's actually some science behind...
It's Time to Mold Some Clay
"What did you do over the long weekend, Miss M?" asks Sarah, one of my fourth-graders, as she hurries into our classroom on Tuesday, February 21. I smile and pause...
An Ode to the Life I Never Planned
I didn't plan on being a teacher. I didn't plan on being responsible for sixty-four little lives every day. I didn't plan on working twelve hours or more each day...
5 Reasons You Should Apply to ACE Teaching Fellows
1. You will be CHALLENGED. ACE calls our Teaching Fellows to embrace challenge: we are challenged to find ways to reach our students and to help them grow academically while...
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...
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...
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...
If I Could, I'd Still Choose You
Eight months after resolving to move back home to Chicago after college, I'm standing with one of my community members in front of a fourteen-foot plastic alligator at an official...