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Name: Maria José Olmos

Title: 2nd Grade Teacher

School: St. Luke Catholic School, A Notre Dame ACE Academy in Palm Springs, Florida

Diocese: Diocese of Palm Beach

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.

Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) founder Rev. Timothy R. Scully, C.S.C., announced he will step down from his role as director of the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame and become director emeritus of the institute beginning in January.

Planes, trains, and automobiles transported more than 40 teachers, school leaders, and stakeholders to the University of Notre Dame for the 2019 Amerian Indian Catholic Schools Network (AICSN) Summer Institute. Educators from all seven AICSN schools, as well as the Better Way Foundation and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, traveled to campus from Arizona, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, and South Dakota.