ACE Teaching Fellows

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 such as identity formation in the digital age and cultivating friendships in the classroom as part of their Development and Moral Education in Childhood and Adolescence class.

“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 margins, and we imagine a circle of compassion, and we imagine nobody’s standing outside that circle.”

“My parents named me Flannery O’Connor . . . 

knowing of the author, but probably not knowing that my life would be centered around 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 his students do.

“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 a delight to see them do that. I enjoy helping students figure out how to learn and figure out the science themselves,” she says.