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Toka: The Revival of an Indigenous Sport

Toka is an Indigenous sport played by the Piipaash (Maricopa) and Akimel O’odham (Pima) nations. This traditional game is experiencing a resurgence thanks to passionate athletes like April Morago. When...

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Joseph, Ofelia, and Mary Gallo Receive ACE’s Most Prestigious Award

In October, several members of the ACE and IEI team traveled to Modesto, California to present the 2025 Notre Dame Award for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic Education to Joseph, Ofelia...

ACE Teaching Fellows Conference: A Photo Essay

Members of ACE 24 showed off their capstone projects July 17 as they presented during the 4th annual ACE Teaching Fellows Conference in DeBartolo Hall. Twenty-two teams spoke about topics...

July 26, 2018

Notre Dame Hosts Adelante Conference to Support Latino Students

"When I say, ‘The future of the Church is Latino,' I try to correct myself," said Fr. Joe Corpora, C.S.C., ACE's director of university-school partnerships, at the inaugural Adelante conference...

July 24, 2018

Center for Literacy Education Hosts First Annual O'Shaughnessy Summer Literacy Institute

"Kids who identify themselves as poor readers read for one reason, and one reason only," said Ernest Morrell, co-director of ACE's Center for Literacy Education. "Because they have to." "The...

July 21, 2018

"Go to the Margins": Fr. Greg Boyle, SJ, Visits ACE

"It is a lie, when we talk of a God that doesn't comfort us," Fr. Greg Boyle, SJ, told the ACE community last week. "And so we go to the...

July 19, 2018

Flannery O'Connor Honored with Michael Pressley Award for Excellence in Catholic Education

"My parents named me Flannery O'Connor . . . knowing of the author, but probably not knowing that my life would be centered around Catholic education." Flannery O'Connor, a member...

July 13, 2018

Michael Debri Honored with Michael Pressley Award for Excellence in Catholic Education

Do you have what it takes to be a saint? At All Saints Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Principal Michael Debri is heading up a vital mission to make sure...

July 13, 2018

Dr. Anna Arias Awarded the 2018 Michael Pressley Award for a Promising Scholar in the Education Field

"How do you make rainbows?" Dr. Anna Arias asked her students this question, and then she stepped back. "Watching them play with the prisms, figure it out, think it through–it's...

July 12, 2018

The Most Rev. Gerald Kicanas, to speak at ACE Commencement ceremony

The Most Rev. Gerald F. Kicanas, bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Tucson and chair of the board of directors of the National Catholic Educational Association, will serve as the...

July 12, 2018

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Toka: The Revival of an Indigenous Sport

Joseph, Ofelia, and Mary Gallo Receive ACE’s Most Prestigious Award