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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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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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The Music Moved Them

This originally appeared on magazine.nd.edu. We were a week away from moving off the island of Oahu. A three-year assignment had come to a close. That’s a “PCS” in military...

Taking the Long View - Mallory Hill, ACE Ambassador

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...

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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...