Alliance for Catholic Education
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...
ACE Teaching Fellows Blog
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...
How Can We Keep from Singing?
During my first week of teaching religion, I like to go through different types of prayers with my class. I know that they are used to the canonical prayers that...
“Are you ready to coach a state champion?”
When my McGill-Toolen Catholic High School's head coach brought me on to help coach track and field—specifically hurdles, my favorite event—I was excited, but I was very quickly met with...
Solidarity in the Storm: Reflection on Prayer in Community
“Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves...