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Mary Margaret Schroeder with her students

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...

Students and sister (left) holding up a sign that reads, "Thank You for the Gift of Catholic Education."

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...

"Burning Down Barns"

The Program for Inclusive Education's (PIE) first cohort completed programming in July and embarked on their mission of inclusive education following an energizing two-week capstone experience on the campus of...

"Ohana" Means Family

The Higher-Powered Learning team is growing, and we are excited to introduce you to our newest member, Francesca Varga! Francesca was a teacher and instructional leader for nine years before...

UDL & Blended Learning: The WHY of Learning

Many proponents of blended learning lament standardized, one-size-fits-all approaches to education, and with good reason. But you don't have to be a blended-learning fangirl like me to believe that classrooms...

Spreading Inclusion Everywhere!: PIE's First Cohort of Inclusive Educators

In Hawaiian culture, 'ohana' means family. To Nacia Hatch, ohana also described the first summer for the Program for Inclusive Education (PIE). "We become part of the Notre Dame family,"...

Should Data Really Drive Your Instruction?

I'd like to start this post with a direct quote from a teacher at a professional development session I led recently: "Elizabeth LOVES data." To be honest, she's not wrong...

Accompanying through Uncertainty: ACE Ambassadors Help Others Say 'Yes' to Teaching

I've never taught before, and I don't even know where I'll be sent to teach. How do I tell other college students what it's like to be an ACE Teaching...

Irish Teaching Fellows

Recent Irish college graduates have been an important part of ACE Teaching Fellows. Once they are chosen to be part of the newest class, they are known as Irish ACErs...

Seeds of Openness Sown in the Classroom

For many growing up in the early to mid-eighties in Ireland our first exposure to 'other', to people 'not like us', or not 'from here', came in the classroom. Every...

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