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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...

ACE Teachers Gain Valuable Experience in Local Schools

In a classroom at Navarre Middle School, Allie Olshefke has the students' attention to herself. Her mentor teacher watches as she prods a group of seventh graders to explain their...

August 2, 2018

"Places of Healing": An Update on the American Indian Catholic Schools Network

Will Newkirk remembers the beauty he saw at White Earth Nation on an undergraduate spring break trip from Saint John's University in Minnesota. Years later, he recalls the maple-syrup tapping...

July 27, 2018

ACE Teaching Fellows Conference: A Photo Essay

Members of ACE 24 showed off their capstone projects July 17 as they presented during the 4th annual ACE Teaching Fellows Conference in DeBartolo Hall. Twenty-two teams spoke about topics...

July 26, 2018

Notre Dame Hosts Adelante Conference to Support Latino Students

"When I say, ‘The future of the Church is Latino,' I try to correct myself," said Fr. Joe Corpora, C.S.C., ACE's director of university-school partnerships, at the inaugural Adelante conference...

July 24, 2018

Center for Literacy Education Hosts First Annual O'Shaughnessy Summer Literacy Institute

"Kids who identify themselves as poor readers read for one reason, and one reason only," said Ernest Morrell, co-director of ACE's Center for Literacy Education. "Because they have to." "The...

July 21, 2018

"Go to the Margins": Fr. Greg Boyle, SJ, Visits ACE

"It is a lie, when we talk of a God that doesn't comfort us," Fr. Greg Boyle, SJ, told the ACE community last week. "And so we go to the...

July 19, 2018

Flannery O'Connor Honored with Michael Pressley Award for Excellence in Catholic Education

"My parents named me Flannery O'Connor . . . knowing of the author, but probably not knowing that my life would be centered around Catholic education." Flannery O'Connor, a member...

July 13, 2018

Michael Debri Honored with Michael Pressley Award for Excellence in Catholic Education

Do you have what it takes to be a saint? At All Saints Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Principal Michael Debri is heading up a vital mission to make sure...

July 13, 2018

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

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