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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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Disability Awareness

Awareness Impacts Success

This month is Disability Awareness Month, and we highlight several diagnoses. These include dyslexia–the most prominent learning disability, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and Down syndrome. Disability Employment Awareness Month...

ACE Mobile 28s and 29s on the first day of school!

“Welcome to the BPiA!”

Learning our ACE placements was a truly bizarre cluster of emotions. First of all, it was a confirmation that in a few months, we would be responsible for actual human...

The Dallas community in our "community cave"

“Welcome Home, Mija”

“Welcome home, mija.” That was the first thing our school administrative assistant said to me on my first day back to school. It was exactly what I needed to hear...

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Cup of Joe - Meeting Marco

Father Joe Carey, CSC, and Bridgette Groden welcome Marco Ordoñez to Cup of Joe and to the ACE Teaching Fellows Team. Marco shares about his background, what drew him to...

Friends, Franks, and FJ

Friends, Franks, and FJ

Teaching, community, and spirituality. We in Indy take pride in living out these three pillars of ACE. While we do enjoy these three pillars as a community of six, we...