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Elizabeth Watters Schwartze

A Generational Legacy of Catholic Education

“In a way, ACE has always been a part of me.” Elizabeth recounts warmly, “Both my parents worked in Catholic education for more than 40 years.” Born in San Francisco...

Michael Macaluso

Mike Macaluso Named Senior Editor for the ALAN Review

Mike Macaluso, Senior Associate Director for Academic Advancement for Enrollment and Financial Aid, has been named senior editor of The ALAN Review, a peer-reviewed journal focused on the study, scholarship...

Read to Learn Initiative Earns Notre Dame Significant Award from USAID

Major gains in Haitian students' literacy skills through the Read to Learn initiative, led by Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE)—in partnership with Notre Dame's Initiative for Global Development...

March 9, 2016

Americorps Week 2016: Six Stories from the Classroom

*Any student names from the stories below have been changed to protect their identities. For over 20 years, ACE Teachers have been proud AmeriCorps members, and each year AmeriCorps—which is...

March 7, 2016

Rising to Leadership: Reflections from a Principal at a Dual-Campus, Multi-Parish School

"I stumbled across a little thing called ACE, and it completely changed my life." Michael Debri, a graduate of ACE Teaching Fellows and the Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program (RLP)...

March 2, 2016

Investments in Cincinnati Help to Rewrite the Narrative of Catholic Schools

A Cincinnati investment fund's recently announced grant advancing St. Francis de Sales School and St. Cecilia School toward their goal of a great education for kids from all backgrounds testifies...

March 2, 2016

A Civics Field Trip that Will Make You Proud to be an American

Photo by Laura Moon/St. John the Evangelist School Lianne Taruc has been a Catholic school student all her life. Now a social studies teacher in Atlanta through Notre Dame's Alliance...

February 26, 2016

Notre Dame ACE Academies among 10,000 fighting for students' future in Sunshine State

On January 19, 2016, delegations of students, parents, teachers, leaders, parishioners, and other supporters from Notre Dame ACE Academies in the Dioceses of St. Petersburg and Orlando were among the...

February 19, 2016

Catholic Schools Week in Florida

I can only begin to describe what a gift it was to visit all six of the Florida ACE Academies during Catholic Schools Week. Excellence happens on purpose and I...

February 18, 2016

ACE Marathon 2016: Let Us Run with Perseverance the Race Marked Out for Us

How far would you run to support Catholic schools? 26.2 miles? For the last fifteen years, dozens of ACE Teachers, Remick Leaders, ACE graduates, and friends have joined together to...

February 17, 2016

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A Generational Legacy of Catholic Education

Mike Macaluso Named Senior Editor for the ALAN Review