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"The way in which our story is told is often framed in this very negative way. That it’s poor, that it’s crippled by alcoholism and poverty and drugs...

That this place has no future.

The story that should be paid attention to is not that people are living here in destitution, and it’s not that people who are still living here have given up.

There’s an element that is impossible to ignore which is the powerful spirit of this place."

- Maka Akan Najin Black Elk
Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Red Cloud Indian School

Learn more about the American Indian Catholic Schools Network at aicsn.org

Name: Dan R. Walker Jr.

Title: English as a New Language Director/Spanish Teacher

School: Corpus Christi Catholic School in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Diocese: Diocese of Colorado Springs

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.

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“Our family can’t afford to send our kids to a Catholic school.”

Working in education since 1982, Dr. John Dolan hears this type of comment often. Now the head of school at St. Mary’s Lynn in Lynn, Massachusetts, he sees firsthand how this sentiment can negatively impact a school’s enrollment, revenues, and financial aid.

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)