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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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Navy Weekend: Welcome Home

Written by: Eric Prister As Fr. Scully and the ACE Bus team were homeward bound from Baltimore on October 28, our ACE teachers, leaders, and graduates were also setting their...

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Right Where I Need To Be

It is right where I need to be: on one side of a climactic showdown in a spaghetti western. I stand at the front of the room, giving my best...

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8 Habits of Well Rested People

As this post illustrates, I have trouble managing my time and my competing priorities which often leads to not enough sleep. I am so envious when I meet people who...

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"That's really cool!"

Written by: Mary Forr "Miss Forr! Miss Forr!!! Do you think they'll give us their autographs?" The "they" my students were referring to weren't members of an NBA team or...

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Through Love, We Survive

Written by: Caroline Lang I'm not an ACE teacher, student, or administrator. I haven't been around the program, and as a humble college student, I certainly can't donate much money...