Reinforcing My Vocation Through ACE
"Some of my most pleasing moments of teaching occurred as I realized just how well I had come to know and understand a particular student's way of thinking and heart."...
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ACE Teachers Pass the Baton as Another Summer Approaches
As second-year ACE Teachers move on to a new race, first-year teachers must receive the baton and shift from mentee to mentor as they get set for their second summer...
My Daily Daring Adventure as a High School Teacher
From the morning sunrise to late-night planning, a day in the life of a teacher is exhausting. But, it's the things that come in between that make it a life...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...