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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...

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The Beauty of Catholic Schools Week

When I saw that I would be writing a blog post for Catholic Schools Week, I knew right away that I wanted to write about community. Community is the second...

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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...

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Blended Learning: A Diamond from COVID Pressure

"Triage teaches us lessons about the import we place on things in 'normal' times," said Betsy Rafferty, the assistant principal at St. Malachy Catholic School (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and a speaker...

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The Sacred Spaces of ACE JAX

The people make the place and ACE Jacksonville has a lot of sacred spaces for me. When moving to an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar folks, we create safe havens together...

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The Great Bridgebuilding of God

"Catch only what you've thrown yourself, all is mere skill and little gain; but when you're suddenly the catcher of a ball thrown by an eternal partner with accurate and...

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4.0 Takeaways from BLiCSS 4.0

For the fourth year in a row, our HPL team convened and planned a national gathering of leaders and practitioners in blended and personalized learning. We love learning from the...

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The People We Are and the Work We Do

"I watch what I do to see what I believe." - Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ There's a fine line between being "hungry" and being an obsessive sourpuss. Until very recently...

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To the Moms that Raise Us Up

It is five minutes past the first bell, and a timid freshman peeks with her usual hesitancy into my classroom. Her tears show that she's upset, although I do not...