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A Letter to My Future ACE Teachers

A letter to my future ACE teachers: “I think I’ve made a grave mistake.” This was a sentence I wrote on a teal post-it, tacked to the cork board of...

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Slivers of Perfection

A few days ago, there was an incident in my classroom that I did not handle very well. On the contrary, I handled it quite poorly, and I ended up...

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The Ultimatum That Changed My School-For the Better

It would be an oversimplification to propose that the Alliance for Catholic Education singlehandedly saved the school I now consider a second family. But the loving labors of ACE Teachers...

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AmeriCorps Helps Students Find Optimism for American Dream

AmeriCorps members come to stand with those they aim to serve because we are all part of the promise of America. Anyone who knows the story of the glittering Jay...

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Seeking Truth and Seeking God in Middle School Science

I want my students to dare to trust that if they seek, they will indeed find, to recognize that they are a part of something bigger than themselves, and to...

Overcoming the Fear of Being More Than a Teacher

If I were to tell you that my first ever coaching experience amounted to only a single goal throughout an entire soccer season, you might question whether the effort was...

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3 Ways Being a First-Year ACE Teacher is Like Running an Ultramarathon

Teaching is full of moments of pure ecstatic joy when you are channeling the very spirit of Steinbeck, and other moments of complete exhaustion when you might as well be...

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How I've Learned to Deal with the Threat of Failure

Do I still get nervous in new social situations? Do I still worry about how others will react to what I do and say? Of course! But alongside my nervousness...

To Be Seen, To Be Heard

Confounding as it was to comprehend, he had somehow chosen me, his newest teacher, with whom to be most vulnerably honest-to admit to the pain he had not allowed himself...

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Remember, Christ Was a Teenager Too

A week before the first day of school, I had no choice but to accept that this year, I'd be teaching fifty-seven seventh grade students. When I was first told...