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Making Space: Choosing Community Across Difference

When I started my time in ACE, I thought the greatest challenge would be in the classroom. And yes—lesson planning, grading, and managing a room full of teenage girls pushed...

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Sydney Brown (bottom left) with her students

Everybody is a Somebody: A Love Letter to A Little School On Plank Road

During my in-person interview for ACE, at the end of the session, my interviewers asked me if I had any questions. I asked, “How did you feel like ACE shaped...

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Maureen Bowling and Andrea Bergener

Where Two or More are Gathered

The Program for Inclusive Education (PIE) has been blessed to work with several schools that sent multiple educators to participate in our 18-credit hour program. When multiple inclusive educators work...

Tulsa at December Retreat

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 Thanksgiving

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.

ACE intern Catherine Bosch

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...

Andy Shannon and Anna Egalite

Lead, Follow, or Get out of the Way

As I began my 33rd year in Catholic schools this past year, I searched for a professional development relationship that would breathe new life into my tired mind and body...