ACE Teaching Fellows

After the storming of the U.S. Capitol left students and teachers wondering how to process and talk about what they witnessed, Meghan McDermott, a faculty member for ACE Teaching Fellows, shared these thoughts and resources.

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

Think. Pair. Share. brings you stories about education and the people who make it happen. We start with the premise that information is being shared all around us in big and small ways, often at the same time. A conversation can teach you how to split an atom even as you learn the favorite color of the person sitting opposite you. Education is not simply about the giving and receiving of information, but rather having an enlightening experience.

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Community is one of the three pillars of ACE Teaching Fellows, bringing together teachers who initially don’t know each other well, but often end up creating lifelong bonds.

Sometimes those ties hold fast as teachers start their own new communities after graduation. That’s what Maggie Holohan, Erin McNulty, and Dorie Taiclet discovered as they found themselves in South Bend after graduating last summer.

Photos provided by Archbishop Shaw High School

“English class is an opportunity for students’ voices to be heard,” stated Joe Crowley, an ACE 26 teacher at Archbishop Shaw High School in New Orleans, Louisiana.

“That is really important, and I think the only way students experience that is to have a teacher who is willing to journey with them.”