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ACE Teaching Fellow Montana Garcia Awarded Fulbright Scholarship for 2025–26

Notre Dame, IN — Montana Garcia, a graduating member of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Teaching Fellows program, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for the 2025–26 academic...

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The McGrath Institute for Church Life and the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Awarded Grant to Explore the Role of Catholic Schools in Strengthening Democracy

This story was originally published by Margaret Scroope on the McGrath Institute for Church Life's website. To view the original article, please click here. Notre Dame, IN — The McGrath...

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Knowledge, Buzzer Skills, and Strategy

Take it from someone who knows – Kevin Donohue (ACE 17, LA South Central), who appeared last week on the famed television quiz show hosted for over 30 years by...

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2019 Lenten Reflections - Easter Sunday

Read this Sunday's Gospel Friends, Happy Easter! Today we arrive at the tomb of Jesus, our beloved friend and savior, with the women of Galilee – Mary Magdalene, Joanna and...

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Remembering Rob Smith

Photo credit: Don Bosco Cristo Rey Rob Smith passed away on April 14 after a two-year battle with cancer. Rob was deeply committed to service, and he left a promising...

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2019 Lenten Reflections - Palm Sunday

Read this Sunday's Gospel Before Jesus enters into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, He asks his disciples to retrieve a colt tethered at the edge of town, stating only that "the...

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True Love Means Teaching Literacy Interventions

I'm taking a course called "Culturally Responsive Teaching," and it's rocking my world. People throw around the phrase "life changing" all too frequently, but this one makes the cut. I...

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Press Play: Dr. Melodie Wyttenbach

Welcome back to Press Play, ACE's new segment highlighting the latest and greatest publications coming out of the Institute for Educational Initiatives. Consider this part of the newsletter a movie...

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2019 Lenten Reflections - 5th Sunday of Lent

Read this Sunday's Gospel In this Sunday's Gospel, a woman is caught breaking the sixth commandment, and John the Evangelist offers us the rather odd detail that, in response to...