Alliance for Catholic Education
"My Best Quality is Eating" and other 5th-Grade Answers
We are at the 100-day mark in the school year. While many of the lower elementary grades had celebrations and activities to mark the occasion, I had a Q&A session...
ACE Teaching Fellows Blog
4 Tips for Applying and Saying Yes to ACE
Applying for ACE Teaching Fellows was one of the best decisions I have ever made. My experiences in ACE shaped me in ways I can only begin to understand, and...
There's Always a Loser in Louisville: New Year's Res-ACE-lutions from the Team
As 2023 kicks off, people around the world are setting New Year's resolutions, hoping that this will be the year they make a habit of going to the gym, kick...
A Penny for Their Thoughts: Advice from my Juniors
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.” Because I am surely not wise enough to avoid advice and not foolish enough to ignore a...
December Retreat Diaries
One of the highlights of my ACE experience, both in my first and second years of teaching, has been December Retreat. After four months of living in community and teaching...
A Very Indy Friendsgiving
Watch the video below that Kenta Sachen (ACE 28) created for this year's ACE Indy Friendsgiving celebrated with the entire Indy team.
A Prayer of Thanksgiving: Finding Gratitude in Our Daily Lives
Once a week, our fourth-grade class celebrates the people, places, or events for which we are thankful. Oftentimes on these days, we hear of the gratitude for student friendships, cousins...
From Student to Teacher: My Path to ACE
I have always loved history, but it wasn’t until I was sitting in my world history class freshman year of high school, watching my favorite teacher share his love of...
Passing the Torch: How My English Teachers Inspired My Desire to Teach
For years, when people have asked me why I wanted to become a teacher, my first response has been, “Because I had great English teachers in high school.” My motivation...
Do Ghosts Really Exist? Embracing questions about the faith in the classroom
With Halloween and Día de los Muertos just around the corner, ghost stories and scary movies have been regular points of discussion at San Miguel Middle School in Tulsa, Oklahoma...