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Waiting Courageously

As an ACE Ambassador, you commit to ACE a full year before you ever step into a classroom as a Teaching Fellow. During that year, friends accept post-graduate jobs, professors...

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The Beauty of Catholic Schools Week

When I saw that I would be writing a blog post for Catholic Schools Week, I knew right away that I wanted to write about community. Community is the second...

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What Will You Do?

When my school first shut down, my first thoughts were of all the things I could no longer do: see my kids, hang out with friends, or coach lacrosse. These...

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Finding New Blessings

This was supposed to be a "victory tour." These post-spring break weeks were supposed to be a wonderful celebratory string of "lasts" at Mount St. Mary Catholic High School, a...

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Choose to Delight

Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska | Photo from Wikimedia Commons "Awe is going to rush in... Accept reality as it is and choose to delight in the present moment...

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Together, We Can Do Hard Things!

The Program for Inclusive Education (PIE) would like to take this opportunity to applaud and thank Catholic school educators for their innovation and persistence in meeting the needs of all...

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Find the Joy

Xavier University has a prayer index on their website that I stumbled upon while I was searching for religion class resources at the beginning of the school year. Throughout this...

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Ideas for eLearning!

Thanks to advancements in technology and all the online resources available, social distancing does not have to mean breaks in learning. Although learning may look different for a short period...