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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...

A National View of Blended Learning in Catholic Schools

Though this blog is primarily focused on the work we do, we also want to highlight some of the most exciting blended-learning implementations in other Catholic schools across the country...

Embracing Flexibility and Freedom with Blended Learning

This is the first in a series of posts that will highlight some of our remarkable teachers and share their perspectives on blended learning. Mary Kate serves as the second-grade...

Why Hunger Can be a Good Thing in Your School

Feeling hungry is the worst. Like most of us, when I'm hungry, I'm cranky, single-minded, and I usually start talking in caveman/Cookie-Monster-speak: "me want food." There's actually some science behind...

Progress, Not Perfection: Mid-Year Check-In for Holy Angels

The return from Christmas break brought feelings of nervous excitement for the teachers at Holy Angels and our staff here at ACE. January is a big month for our Notre...

It's Time to Mold Some Clay

"What did you do over the long weekend, Miss M?" asks Sarah, one of my fourth-graders, as she hurries into our classroom on Tuesday, February 21. I smile and pause...

Individuality and Responsibility in a Blended Classroom

This post is the first in a series about teaching in a blended classroom written by Sean Wolohan, the fifth- and sixth-grade math and science teacher and Blended Learning Coordinator...

Trabajos de Verano: Summer Jobs

Each year ChACE teachers get the privilege of chaperoning one of the summer service trips organized for Saint George's high school students, Trabajos de Verano and Misiones. Trabajos de Verano...

An Ode to the Life I Never Planned

I didn't plan on being a teacher. I didn't plan on being responsible for sixty-four little lives every day. I didn't plan on working twelve hours or more each day...

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