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Five superintendents of Catholic schools from across the country met recently at Notre Dame for ACE’s first “Superintendents’ Initiative,” a program to create a network of support and provide professional development for current superintendents. The participants—who call themselves “Cohort 0”—crafted a vision for how the Initiative can respond to needs specific to them, build community and provide professional development for superintendents who are so often focused on supporting others in their respective dioceses.

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Jim and Molly Perry were presented last night with the 2018 Notre Dame Award for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic Education by Fr. Tim Scully, C.S.C., the Hackett Family Director of the Institute for Educational Initiatives and founder of the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE). The award was announced at a commencement ceremony for the first class of ACE’s Center for Transformational Educational Leadership.

Two graduating Alliance for Catholic Education Teaching Fellows, Trini Bui and Kyle Lansden, have earned grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to teach abroad next year.

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Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Roberts.

You might not recognize that name, but a good number of you – and now ACE 24’s Maggie Blake’s students – would know her as Cokie Roberts, renowned journalist and New York Times best-selling author.

OAKLAND – Bishop Michael C. Barber, SJ, has appointed Rodney Pierre-Antoine as the founding executive director of the new Lumen Christi Academies, a network of seven elementary schools within the Diocese of Oakland. Pierre-Antoine will begin his work in leading the new network May 14, 2018.