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High school students from Cleveland Central Catholic sit next to their elementary school prayer partners from St. Stanislaus during our Ash Wednesday Mass.

We Are Dust: Reflections on Teaching and the Lenten Journey

“Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” This Ash Wednesday anthem, spoken as our foreheads are marked with a smudgy black cross, is a reminder of our...

Mary Margaret Schroeder with her students

Waiting Courageously

As an ACE Ambassador, you commit to ACE a full year before you ever step into a classroom as a Teaching Fellow. During that year, friends accept post-graduate jobs, professors...

Ms. Hall's sixth grade home room posing for a photo from their Christmas party.

Presence Over Perfection: What Really Matters in Your Classroom

It’s Saturday, January 3rd. Classes start up again on Monday. You’re back at your ACE placement, your plans for the week are solid, your assignments are prepped, your grade book...

Fr. Lou DelFra with other priests at Missioning Mass 2025

Forms Disciples: What is Forming Us?

A computer engineer major in my dorm was having a really hard time, with what so many young people are struggling with these days: a lack of a sense of...

Plush Mary laying down with books in Schroeder's classroom.

Waiting Together: Advent in the Classroom

I have always loved Advent, but the season took on an even deeper meaning once I started sharing it with my 5th-grade students. Experiencing the hope and wonder of Christ’s...

Cup of Joe: Merry Christmas 2025!

Special guests join Fr. Joe Carey, CSC and Maggie Cahill to share their Christmas traditions.

Dan McCarthy interacting with Remick classmates.

Forms Disciples: One Mission

Dan McCarthy Theology Department Chair, Lansdale Catholic High School Transcript: Go therefore and make disciples of all nations. Every Catholic school around the world participates in a unique way in...

ACE Teachers singing joyfully during Lessons and Carols at December Retreat 2025

I Can't Wait

“We wait because there’s a promise. There’s a presupposition of something more worth waiting for.” “But I want it now!” is a sentence heard throughout the country this time of...

Sarah Perkins teaching

Forms Disciples: Give Comfort

"Give comfort to my people, says your God.” Isaiah 40:1 When I think about the book of the prophet Isaiah, my memory often conjures up powerful proclamations, calls for conversion...

Engineers Improvement: Entering with Humility

One of the highlights of my time as an elementary school principal was the opportunity to visit other Catholic elementary schools, most often during accreditation visits. These experiences were always...