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Making Space: Choosing Community Across Difference

When I started my time in ACE, I thought the greatest challenge would be in the classroom. And yes—lesson planning, grading, and managing a room full of teenage girls pushed...

Sydney Brown (bottom left) with her students

Everybody is a Somebody: A Love Letter to A Little School On Plank Road

During my in-person interview for ACE, at the end of the session, my interviewers asked me if I had any questions. I asked, “How did you feel like ACE shaped...

My Daily Daring Adventure as a High School Teacher

From the morning sunrise to late-night planning, a day in the life of a teacher is exhausting. But, it's the things that come in between that make it a life...

ACE Ireland Keeps St. Patrick's Fire Alive

ACE Ireland continues to follow in the footsteps of St. Patrick and embrace the hard and joy-filled work of keeping his fire alive. The "Fighting Irish" moniker did not always...

The Ultimatum That Changed My School-For the Better

It would be an oversimplification to propose that the Alliance for Catholic Education singlehandedly saved the school I now consider a second family. But the loving labors of ACE Teachers...

AmeriCorps Helps Students Find Optimism for American Dream

AmeriCorps members come to stand with those they aim to serve because we are all part of the promise of America. Anyone who knows the story of the glittering Jay...

Seeking Truth and Seeking God in Middle School Science

I want my students to dare to trust that if they seek, they will indeed find, to recognize that they are a part of something bigger than themselves, and to...

Overcoming the Fear of Being More Than a Teacher

If I were to tell you that my first ever coaching experience amounted to only a single goal throughout an entire soccer season, you might question whether the effort was...

3 Ways Being a First-Year ACE Teacher is Like Running an Ultramarathon

Teaching is full of moments of pure ecstatic joy when you are channeling the very spirit of Steinbeck, and other moments of complete exhaustion when you might as well be...

How I've Learned to Deal with the Threat of Failure

Do I still get nervous in new social situations? Do I still worry about how others will react to what I do and say? Of course! But alongside my nervousness...

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Making Space: Choosing Community Across Difference

Everybody is a Somebody: A Love Letter to A Little School On Plank Road