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...
ACE Teaching Fellows Blog
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...
To the Moms that Raise Us Up
It is five minutes past the first bell, and a timid freshman peeks with her usual hesitancy into my classroom. Her tears show that she's upset, although I do not...
Both Sides of the Journey: Reflecting on April Retreat 2021
Jess Zlaket (Fort Worth) and Peter Spalitto (Atlanta) are finishing their second years as ACE teachers as they transition to become part of the Teaching Fellows' pastoral team. They joined...