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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...

Catholic Schools Changing Lives

Written by: Eric Prister "I'm not sure what I would've been doing-probably getting in trouble." But Michelle Eusebio, as she grew up in Washington Heights on the north side of...

Navy Weekend: Welcome Home

Written by: Eric Prister As Fr. Scully and the ACE Bus team were homeward bound from Baltimore on October 28, our ACE teachers, leaders, and graduates were also setting their...

Welcome Home

A Look Back at the First Leg of the Tour

Right Where I Need To Be

It is right where I need to be: on one side of a climactic showdown in a spaghetti western. I stand at the front of the room, giving my best...

8 Habits of Well Rested People

As this post illustrates, I have trouble managing my time and my competing priorities which often leads to not enough sleep. I am so envious when I meet people who...

"That's really cool!"

Written by: Mary Forr "Miss Forr! Miss Forr!!! Do you think they'll give us their autographs?" The "they" my students were referring to weren't members of an NBA team or...

Through Love, We Survive

Written by: Caroline Lang I'm not an ACE teacher, student, or administrator. I haven't been around the program, and as a humble college student, I certainly can't donate much money...