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Waiting Together: Advent in the Classroom

I have always loved Advent, but the season took on an even deeper meaning once I started sharing it with my 5th-grade students. Experiencing the hope and wonder of Christ’s...

ACE Teachers singing joyfully during Lessons and Carols at December Retreat 2025

I Can't Wait

“We wait because there’s a promise. There’s a presupposition of something more worth waiting for.” “But I want it now!” is a sentence heard throughout the country this time of...

There's No Place Like Home

“Níl aon tintéan mar thintéan fhéin” This is an old Irish proverb meaning "there is no place like home." On a recent brisk, magnificent fall morning in Indianapolis, I attended...

St. André Bessette and the Call to Inclusion

As educators, we must be committed to doing whatever it takes to ensure that every child succeeds. While this certainly means that we will provide extra time and supports to...

Early Mornings, Late Nights, and Desk Naps: Life at Saint Catherine's

"Why?" This is the question I heard when I told people that I was staying in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "Why Oklahoma?" Good question. If I'd moved back home to mostly sunny...

Doing Little Things with Great Love

Monica Kowalski, Ph.D., serves as a faculty member in the ACE Teaching Fellows and Mary Ann Remick Leadership programs. She writes about how we must focus on doing small things...

To My Younger, Less Sleep-Deprived Self

Navigating life after college inevitably teaches you some hard-earned lessons. However, I think that serving as an ACE teacher brings with it a different type of wisdom. Thinking about ACE...

Leading with Zeal in a Promising New School Year

The Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program prepares transformational school leaders who make God known, loved, and served. As the school year begins, Melodie Wyttenbach, Ph.D., a faculty member in the...

Saludos desde Ecuador! (Greetings from Ecuador!)

For the past 16 years, the Alliance for Catholic Education has missioned graduates of ACE and other UCCE programs to teach internationally in Santiago, Chile, as part of ACE in...

Sharing Knowledge in Senegal: A Vocation of Education (Part 3)

Michael Berino (ACE 19) has expanded his teaching and learning by spending the past nine months in Senegal. Thanks to a prestigious grant he received from The Fulbright Program, he...

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Waiting Together: Advent in the Classroom

I Can't Wait