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Struggle Like Your Students

“It’s a whole body thing. Your shot should be one fluid motion.” “Follow through. Hold your hand up after you release the ball.” “Again.” While preparing for a beloved tradition...

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A Letter to My Future ACE Teachers

A letter to my future ACE teachers: “I think I’ve made a grave mistake.” This was a sentence I wrote on a teal post-it, tacked to the cork board of...

One Ripple at a Time

The Program for Inclusive Education (PIE) is happy to share the following piece by Mary Desmarais, the inclusion specialist and expanded services teacher at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington...

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"Be curious, not judgmental" - (Not) Walt Whitman

59 years ago this week, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an address at Cornell College in Iowa. This address was noteworthy for a number of reasons, perhaps chief among...

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...

Why PIE? We Can All Grow! My Journey (so far)

The Program for Inclusive Education (PIE) is pleased to introduce you to our new associate director, Abby Giroux! I am blessed to welcome one of our own to the PIE...

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Busy in the Best Way: A Day in the Life of a Frassati Intern

6:46 AM → Between the summer sun streaming through the convent’s windows and a list of goals for the day swirling through my brain, I’m usually up and turning off...

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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Community Retreats Offer ACE Teachers Time for Reflection and Rejuvenation

The past two weeks, the ACE community has celebrated a joyous return to one of the traditions that marks the ACE experience: community retreat. Since March 2020, the pieces of...

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Open Doors Program Unlocks College and More for Students with Disabilities

The Program for Inclusive Education (PIE) is pleased to update our audience about St. Mary Catholic Central High School (SMCC) in Monroe, Michigan. SMCC began the St. Andre Bessette (SAB)...