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You have one. Your parents have one. Your best friend has one: a favorite teacher. Someone who left an indelible mark on you—not necessarily because they shared the most facts with you, but because of how they made you feel and the person they inspired you to become. Each year at Notre Dame...

As we stand at the threshold of a new year, we look back at what has been and we look forward, with renewed vision, toward what is yet to come. In that spirit, I thought I would take up a topic in English education that encapsulates the recursive act of looking back and moving forward: revision. My...

For our first installment of the Lessons in Literacy series, the CLE is pleased to spotlight an incredible educator, Anna Bourjaily. Ms. Bourjaily teaches middle school English at St. Robert Catholic School in Sacramento, California. She graduated from St. Mary's College and is serving her second...

My third-grade year began in a portable classroom and ended with me almost getting my eye shot out with a bb gun by my older brother. It was a traumatic year, but I'll save the bb gun incident for another time. What I remember more fondly is how Mr. Eynon created a space in this portable classroom...

Early last month, four Alliance for Catholic Education Teaching Fellows (ACE 24) – Emma Solak , Anna Bourjaily , Megan Koerber , and Tyler Schilly – presented at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Convention in Houston. The convention brought together teachers, professionals...

It was my first classroom observation as a new teacher, and I was terrified. I was only about six weeks into my first year teaching middle school English and literature when my supervisor, language and education specialist Dr. Katy Lichon , came to Fort Worth to evaluate my practice, and I was well...