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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...

I've Learned the Only Answer Is to Take Action

It would be easy as an ACE teacher to go from the lush Notre Dame campus with its golden dome, its complicated sprinkler system, and its plentiful computer labs and...

Father Joe: Teachers Know and Serve God Amid the Unknowns

What does it mean to be a teacher in the Alliance for Catholic Education? This is a simple question that poses a helpful challenge for those thinking about applying to...

A Safe Haven: Big Shoulders Fund

Big Shoulders' original goal was to raise $1 million so that underprivileged Chicago children could attend Catholic schools. Today, twenty-six years after the program was founded, Big Shoulders has raised...

9 Lives

I was thinking about it last week, and I figured that I have lived four separate lives/realities in 2013. From January to April, I was an ambitious undergraduate psychological researcher...

Note From Father Joe: Mary's "Yes" is a Christmastime Call to Teachers

During Advent and Christmas, we are reminded of how Mary enters into salvation history. The Gospel of Luke 1:39-45 provides an account of the Annunciation. The angel Gabriel came to...

Seeing Christ Takes Time...But He's There

"I am not angry with you, and I am happy you are here." These are words I have found myself repeating throughout the beginning of the school year. Since those...

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The St. Anthony's Miracle

At the end of the 90s, Milwaukee Catholic schools were struggling. Attendance was down, and schools were on the verge of closing. One of the schools, St. Anthony's on the...

A Process in Learning to Let Go

Contrary to what I expected, becoming a teacher has been a process of learning how to lose control. Maybe it would be better to say that it has been a...