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Rising to Leadership: Reflections from a Principal at a Dual-Campus, Multi-Parish School

Written by Rebecca Devine on Wednesday, 02 March 2016.

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“I stumbled across a little thing called ACE, and it completely changed my life."

Michael Debri, a graduate of ACE Teaching Fellows and the Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program (RLP), originally intended to teach in a public high school after graduating from college. Before ACE, Debri explained, he had “no idea how important community is, for schools and for the Church.” After two years in a third grade classroom as an ACE Teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, Debri took a job as the assistant principal of All Saints Academy in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

A Civics Field Trip that Will Make You Proud to be an American

Written by Rebecca Devine on Friday, 26 February 2016.

Lianne Turac American Citizen CeremonyPhoto by Laura Moon/St. John the Evangelist School

Lianne Taruc has been a Catholic school student all her life. Now a social studies teacher in Atlanta through Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education, Taruc recently had the opportunity to teach her 5th graders their most memorable lesson of the year.

ACE Marathon 2016: Let Us Run with Perseverance the Race Marked Out for Us

on Wednesday, 17 February 2016.

How far would you run to support Catholic schools? 26.2 miles? For the last fifteen years, dozens of ACE Teachers, Remick Leaders, ACE graduates, and friends have joined together to raise money, train, and ultimately commit to running a marathon to draw attention to and financially assist Catholic schools.

This year, on Sunday, March 12, another group of runners from across the country will join together in our nation’s capital to take on the Rock ‘n’ Roll Washington D.C. Marathon and raise funds for The Academy of St. Matthias the Apostle in Lanham, Maryland.

MatthiasKidsCommitted to academic excellence and wanting to serve their students more fully, St. Matthias classroom teachers have limited access to basic technology. The distance between learning and meaningful, real-life connection is easily bridged through skillful use of technology and projects like research papers and scientific inquiry-based labs. Through the funds collected from ACE marathoners, St. Matthias will purchase new equipment, like computers and projectors, and update the school’s connectivity for classrooms.

Marathon runners could use your support! To help St. Matthias reach their goals, please consider visiting the ACE D.C. community's Crowdrise page and making a donation.

Will you be in the DC area to run, cheer, or celebrate ACE? Let us know!

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To learn more about the great work being done at St. Matthias, visit school.stmatthias.org.

Fr. Joe Corpora, C.S.C., Notre Dame scholars address challenges for Latino Catholic education

on Thursday, 11 February 2016.

Luis Ricardo Fraga, Arthur Foundation Endowed Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science and co-director of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, served as co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Catholic Education, its first issue ever to focus specifically on Latinos and Catholic education.

According to Fraga, the Jan. 28 special issue, titled “Latinos, Education, and the Church,” concerns the opportunities and challenges confronting the Catholic Church in providing educational opportunities for the children of Latino families.

Fr  Corpora For Web“Although Latinos now comprise 35 to 40 percent of all Catholics in the U.S., and a much larger share of younger practicing Catholics in the U.S., only 15 percent of students attending Catholic schools are Latinos and only 3 percent of all Latino children attend Catholic schools,” Fraga said. “Notre Dame, through the Institute for Educational Initiatives, the Alliance for Catholic Education and the Catholic School Advantage program, has figured prominently in making this an important issue.”

In addition to Fraga, Notre Dame scholars contributing to the issue include Rev. Joseph Corpora, C.S.C., director of university-school partnerships for ACE; Timothy Matovina, professor of theology and co-director of the Institute for Latino Studies, and Andre P. Audette, doctoral student in political science.

In the article “¿Es Su Escuela Nuestra Escuela? Latino Access to Catholic Schools,” Father Corpora and Fraga write that the Catholic School Advantage program is just one example of the role Catholic universities can play in “promoting new ideas, identifying supportive interests, and developing additional, innovative institutional relationships and structures that can serve dioceses and schools who want to increase Latino enrollment.”

This article was first published at news.nd.edu.

John Schoenig Featured on WSJ.com During Catholic Schools Week

on Tuesday, 02 February 2016.

John Schoenig, ACE's Senior Director of Teacher Formation and Education Policy, was featured on WSJ.com's Opinion Journal segment to talk about the successes and challenges faced by today's Catholic Schools. 

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