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ACE Teachers posing before So-Cal Marathon 2026

Running Through Discomfort

I feel great. Granted, I’m only 3 miles into my 13.1 mile journey, but I feel better than ever. It’s hot, but I’ve run in this weather countless times. After...

High school students from Cleveland Central Catholic sit next to their elementary school prayer partners from St. Stanislaus during our Ash Wednesday Mass.

We Are Dust: Reflections on Teaching and the Lenten Journey

“Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” This Ash Wednesday anthem, spoken as our foreheads are marked with a smudgy black cross, is a reminder of our...

"Burning Down Barns"

The Program for Inclusive Education's (PIE) first cohort completed programming in July and embarked on their mission of inclusive education following an energizing two-week capstone experience on the campus of...

"Ohana" Means Family

The Higher-Powered Learning team is growing, and we are excited to introduce you to our newest member, Francesca Varga! Francesca was a teacher and instructional leader for nine years before...

UDL & Blended Learning: The WHY of Learning

Many proponents of blended learning lament standardized, one-size-fits-all approaches to education, and with good reason. But you don't have to be a blended-learning fangirl like me to believe that classrooms...

Spreading Inclusion Everywhere!: PIE's First Cohort of Inclusive Educators

In Hawaiian culture, 'ohana' means family. To Nacia Hatch, ohana also described the first summer for the Program for Inclusive Education (PIE). "We become part of the Notre Dame family,"...

Should Data Really Drive Your Instruction?

I'd like to start this post with a direct quote from a teacher at a professional development session I led recently: "Elizabeth LOVES data." To be honest, she's not wrong...

Accompanying through Uncertainty: ACE Ambassadors Help Others Say 'Yes' to Teaching

I've never taught before, and I don't even know where I'll be sent to teach. How do I tell other college students what it's like to be an ACE Teaching...

Irish Teaching Fellows

Recent Irish college graduates have been an important part of ACE Teaching Fellows. Once they are chosen to be part of the newest class, they are known as Irish ACErs...

Seeds of Openness Sown in the Classroom

For many growing up in the early to mid-eighties in Ireland our first exposure to 'other', to people 'not like us', or not 'from here', came in the classroom. Every...

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Running Through Discomfort

We Are Dust: Reflections on Teaching and the Lenten Journey