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“I’m going to college in 2025”: Mission accomplished!

Fifteen years ago, at the invitation of Bishop Gerald Kicanas, Notre Dame ACE Academies (NDAA) partnered with St. John the Evangelist in Tucson, AZ where these tiny scholars Mia and...

Montana Garcia

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...

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

Fr. Joe Corpora, C.S.C., Notre Dame scholars address challenges for Latino Catholic education

Luis Ricardo Fraga, Arthur Foundation Endowed Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science and co-director of the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino...

February 11, 2016

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“I’m going to college in 2025”: Mission accomplished!

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