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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...

A First-Year Teacher Begins to See the Fruits of the Notre Dame ACE Academies Model

"This is a place where things are happening. I have never been anywhere like it." The start of a new school year is a time of fresh pencils and stiff...

October 1, 2015

Expanding Pre-K Options Serves Dual Purpose for Catholic Schools

You might say early-childhood teacher Courtney O'Grady, with help from her students aged three and four, as well as their parents, is writing the book on pre-kindergarten classes as a...

September 29, 2015

Expanding Pre-K Options Serves Dual Purpose for Catholic Schools

You might say early-childhood teacher Courtney O’Grady, with help from her students aged three and four, as well as their parents, is writing the book on pre-kindergarten classes as a...

September 29, 2015

Notre Dame ACE Academies Earn White House Honor for Service to Latino Students

A White House initiative saluting educational excellence for Hispanics has announced its recognition of the innovative Notre Dame ACE Academies as a "Bright Spot in Hispanic Education." On December 12...

September 28, 2015

Fr. Scully Reflects on the Meaning of the Pope's Visit to a Harlem School

In an op-ed piece for the New York Post, Rev. Timothy R. Scully, C.S.C., ACE's founder and the Hackett Family Director for Notre Dame's Institute for Educational Initiatives, offers a...

September 25, 2015

Fr. Joe Corpora to Provide Commentary for Pope's Visit

Fr. Joe Corpora, C.S.C., ACE's Director of the Catholic School Advantage Campaign, will provide live commentary during Pope Francis's Friday visit to Our Lady Queen of Angels School (OLQA), an...

September 25, 2015

Career Journeys Earn Founders Prize for ACE Grads

"We don't make the invitation," Rev. Lou DelFra, C.S.C., said of ACE's mission while addressing an awards ceremony July 22 featuring the Scott C. Malpass Founders Prize. "The Holy Spirit...

August 31, 2015

For Students with Learning Differences, Catholic Schools Provide Hope

Hilary Murphy, a graduate of the SJCHS Benilde Program, recently earned a Master of Education degree in school counseling. Hilary Murphy would beg to differ with the assumption that, until...

August 20, 2015

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

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