Alliance for Catholic Education
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...
ACE Teaching Fellows Blog
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...
Trust the Process
The NBA season is well underway, and as a native Philadelphian now teaching in Sacramento, I do my best to keep up with both the Kings and the Sixers. While...
The Middle School Roller Coaster
I love it when their eyes widen. That is my favorite part. "You teach English? To middle schoolers?" people ask, incredulous, awed. "Oh man, I was the worst in middle...
Were Not Our Hearts Burning Within Us?
Earlier this month, the ChACErs met together on the road. Well, sort of. There was an actual road involved: we arrived to the retreat via a road that took us...