Alliance for Catholic Education
ACE Summer's Spikeball Subculture
Four people stand in ready position on South Quad. Their knees are slightly bent, their eyes trained on the yellow ball as it bounces neatly off the circular net in...
ACE Teaching Fellows Blog
Answering the Call to Service in ACE 24
Walking into Accepted Applicants Night for ACE 24, I am not sure what I expected. I did feel one thing for certain-a slight sense of trepidation. I received an email...
A Lesson Worth Remembering
Something was different as we walked into Dr. Collier's Social Studies Content class during that first ACE summer. He had us sit specifically in columns of five and said that...
Why Hunger Can be a Good Thing in Your School
Feeling hungry is the worst. Like most of us, when I'm hungry, I'm cranky, single-minded, and I usually start talking in caveman/Cookie-Monster-speak: "me want food." There's actually some science behind...
Why Hunger Can be a Good Thing in Your School
Feeling hungry is the worst. Like most of us, when I'm hungry, I'm cranky, single-minded, and I usually start talking in caveman/Cookie-Monster-speak: "me want food." There's actually some science behind...
It's Time to Mold Some Clay
"What did you do over the long weekend, Miss M?" asks Sarah, one of my fourth-graders, as she hurries into our classroom on Tuesday, February 21. I smile and pause...
An Ode to the Life I Never Planned
I didn't plan on being a teacher. I didn't plan on being responsible for sixty-four little lives every day. I didn't plan on working twelve hours or more each day...
5 Reasons You Should Apply to ACE Teaching Fellows
1. You will be CHALLENGED. ACE calls our Teaching Fellows to embrace challenge: we are challenged to find ways to reach our students and to help them grow academically while...
Risky Business
During the spring of my second year as an ACE teacher, I interviewed at a school that did not yet exist. I taught my demo lesson to the principal and...
3 Final Lessons from 2016
The end of the year 2016 marks the end of my experience of the ACE in Chile teaching program. I have learned so much! Moving to the southern hemisphere turned...