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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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Students and sister (left) holding up a sign that reads, "Thank You for the Gift of Catholic Education."

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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The ACE Morning Offering

Every member of ACE Teaching Fellows gets a card just like the one above. There's one on my bedside table and an extra in my wallet-just to be safe. Wherever...

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There's No Place Like Home

“Níl aon tintéan mar thintéan fhéin” This is an old Irish proverb meaning "there is no place like home." On a recent brisk, magnificent fall morning in Indianapolis, I attended...

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Doing Little Things with Great Love

Monica Kowalski, Ph.D., serves as a faculty member in the ACE Teaching Fellows and Mary Ann Remick Leadership programs. She writes about how we must focus on doing small things...

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To My Younger, Less Sleep-Deprived Self

Navigating life after college inevitably teaches you some hard-earned lessons. However, I think that serving as an ACE teacher brings with it a different type of wisdom. Thinking about ACE...