Alliance for Catholic Education
Making Space: Choosing Community Across Difference
When I started my time in ACE, I thought the greatest challenge would be in the classroom. And yes—lesson planning, grading, and managing a room full of teenage girls pushed...
ACE Teaching Fellows Blog
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...
Everybody is a Somebody: A Love Letter to A Little School On Plank Road
During my in-person interview for ACE, at the end of the session, my interviewers asked me if I had any questions. I asked, “How did you feel like ACE shaped...
A Farewell to Norbert and the Ride of a Lifetime
My car finally broke down for good on Cinco de Mayo. I made a right turn out of our staff parking lot and the *BOOM* scraaaaaaape told me that he...
Until Next Time
“Until next time!” That was the mood as we tossed our bags in the trunk and pulled away from Notre Dame’s campus after April Retreat. The weekend had been a...
How to Love
Happy Easter, everyone! A few weeks ago at Mass, my housemates and I and many of you heard the Gospel story of the Prodigal Son, which in my opinion is...
Chomp Chomp! Chomp Chomp!
One recent Thursday evening I found myself surrounded by people imitating sharks and cheering as bodies slammed against plastic walls. My community had decided to venture out to a San...
Troll Bogeys
In the chapter titled, “Halloween,” in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the three characters known by fans around the world now as “The Golden Trio” were not yet friends...
One Step at a Time
What do distance running, teaching, and discipleship have in common? Hills. Lots of hills. Energy was high going into ACE race weekend—an opportunity to race and see some of the...
The Holy Spirit Has My Back
There were many things I didn’t know about Notre Dame before applying. Like how South is objectively the better of the two dining halls, or how the squirrels here only...