ACE Teaching Fellows

As we enter into a new year, we also look back on the past year and our most popular news stories and blog posts. 

For 27 years, students have applied to ACE’s Teaching Fellows program from the comfort of their dorm rooms or the solitude of a campus library. Few have felt the call to become an ACE teacher while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, but that is exactly where Ryan Hinton found himself in July of 2003.

Four current ACE teachers and two recent ACE grads had key roles at the Western History Association annual conference held in Las Vegas, NV. The teachers are:

• Laura Fenerty (ACE 25, LA South Central)
• Adriana Marrero (ACE 25, San Jose) 
• Taylor Still (ACE 25, Denver)
• Danielle Gaudet (ACE 25, LA East)
• Jose Dempsey (ACE 23, San Jose)
• Sam Jezak (ACE 24, San Jose)

Norma Nelson wants to change a life-altering statistic.

“By the end of third grade, two-thirds of children in Dallas County are reading below grade level,” says Norma (ACE 10, Dallas).

As Anthony Holter saw the end of college approaching, he wondered what lay ahead.

“Senior year in college I started asking myself what I was going to do with a Theology and Great Books degree,” he says.